CTOvision
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. UPDATE 1-Amazon releases video showcasing unmanned delivery drones - Reuters. President Obama and Bill Gates to announce historic investment in clean energy. - Mashable. Jail squeeze pushes out federal inmates - Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
While the third quarter wasn’t stellar for DuPont Fabros Technology in terms of signing new leases, the period immediately after the quarter’s last day saw a series of major deals.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
We've all heard about the CEOs and leaders who don't get digital, who don't invest, who are risk averse, who assign blame at every speed bump, who think there businesses are defendable against startups and new digital business models. So this week I present a handful of CEOs who appear to 'get it'. The ones that realize that staying static or making changes slowly is no longer an option.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
Placing IT staff in other departments is a new IT trend Image Credit: VIA Gallery. The person with the CIO job understands that the because of the importance of information technology, the role of the IT department is to support the rest of the company. The challenge for the longest time has been how exactly to go about doing this. Over the past few years, the interactions between the IT department and other departments has been increasing; however, there is still a gulf between the two groups.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Earlier this week, I wrote “ Where are we in the big data lifecycle? ” where I said that we are currently somewhere between the ‘technology trigger’ and ‘peak of inflated expectations’ on Gartner’s Hype Cycle for big data. A newly released report from IDC titled “ Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services Forecast, 2015–2019 ” predicts that we will continue to see strong growth over the next four years for big data services, software and infrastructure.
ComputerWorld Consumerization IT
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
The largest school district in Canada is rolling out a $14 million Wi-Fi network that embraces a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach for students. The Wi-Fi rollout to 562 schools and other buildings in metropolitan Toronto, based primarily on Cisco gear and software, is expected to be complete next year and serve all 246,000 students, plus staff.
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Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
The key to success of prominent facilities, such as Facebook's, is that, by challenging the status quo, they actually surpass industry standards around design and build, energy efficiency, information security, and more. Read More.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Is anyone surprised that a SaaS company that provides agile project management tools to software developers, marketers, and enterprises is about to IPO at a $3.3 Billion valuation on revenues of $320M? I'm talking about Atlassian of course and if you've been leading agile practices you know them for their tools like Jira and Confluence that help teams manage agile programs and collaborate.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Cyberthreats are something that CIOs don’t like to talk about Image Credit: UK Ministry of Defense. By now we all know that our firms are under an almost constant set of attacks from a wide variety of outsiders because of the importance of information technology. Some of these attackers are simply children who are just fooling around with their computes and are trying to see how far they can get.
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
In a recent post on O’Reilly Radar titled “ Turning big data into actionable insights “, Ben Lorica provides some highlights of an interview with Evangelos Simoudis regarding big data. One of the highlights is extremely important. It relates to the importance of finding actionable insights from big data and sharing those insights in a way that the organization can use.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
ComputerWorld Consumerization IT
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Dropbox launches new Enterprise edition at its Dropbox Open conflab. But rival Box, Inc. is throwing shade with fighting talk. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says his company is about more than just B2C cloud sync now. But Box CEO Aaron Levie is trying to spoil Drew's party, with his cruel, hurtful words. Children, children. Please. Play nice, would ya? In IT Blogwatch , bloggers remember-remember.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
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Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
Many of the legacy storage recommendations people are familiar with for Oracle DB may no longer hold true in the flash world, so understanding what’s different will be key to success. Read More.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 8, 2015
In my last post, I proposed six business, cultural, and strategic objectives you can use to evaluate digital transformation enabling technologies. The intention of these objectives is to align executives and stakeholders on opportunities and challenges worthy of investment independent from any evaluation of solutions and technologies. Now there are plenty of methodologies to evaluate technology.
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You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Be careful before you hit the email delete button Image Credit: Mixy Lorenzo. Sure, as the person with the CIO job, there are a lot of different things that you could be doing. However, have you ever spent any time thinking about the things that you should be doing? It turns out that given the importance of information technology it just might be what you and your IT team is not doing that may end up causing both you and your company the most trouble.
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
Big data doesn’t have to be used to solve big problems. Big data sure makes it easier to solve big problems, but you can just as easily use big data and data analytics to solve ‘smaller’ issues. In fact, if your organization is just getting started in the world of big data, it makes sense to find a few smaller problems to try to solve.
Mick's IT Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
The firm I work at does not give users local administrator access for several reasons. We did an audit of our systems and found out several users had local administrator privileges that should not have. In order to keep track of all systems all of the time, I wrote the following two PowerShell scripts to report systems in which a user is part of the administrators group.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. National Science Foundation, Agriculture Release CIO-Boosting FITARA Plans - Nextgov. 2015 Greater Washington Heart Walk Raises $1.85 Million with Vencore’s Mac Curtis as Chair. Leidos, USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute to Partner on Research Projects.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
John M. Hawkins is VP of Marketing and Communications at vXchnge. With 2016 quickly approaching, executives are starting to hash out their plans and budgets for the coming year. While all aspects of a business are important, no other division is more critical to supporting business growth than the.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
What criteria are you, your business stakeholders, influential technologists, and executives using to evaluate a new software application or SaaS platform? Are you concerned about features and functionality? Is it the design of the user interface that grabs your attention? Perhaps you go deeper to understand how much of the platform can be configured or customized to meet specific business.
ComputerWorld Consumerization IT
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
Editor’s Note: Apple invited CIO.com's Matt Kapko to Cupertino to offer him details about its plans for the iPad Pro -- specifically Apple wanted to share background on why the new tablet is well-suited for the enterprise. As a condition of the interview, all comments are attributed only to an unidentified Apple spokesman. CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Apple isn’t trying to rewrite the script of the iPad with its release this week of the iPad Pro.
The Investing Edge
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
I’m excited to announce Ascent’s newest portfolio company, Sidecar , the leader in programmatic, product-level advertising. We at Ascent have been active investors in the ad tech space with companies like Bizo ( acquired by LinkedIn for $175M ) and StartApp ( Deloitte’s #1 fastest growing tech company in the US ). We’ve seen the power of advanced analytics delivering superior results, especially through programmatic approaches to targeting ad spend.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Mick's IT Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
While helping to manage Microsoft Endpoint, a former colleague suggested that I setup Endpoint to automatically run a full system scan each time an infection is detected. I googled the blog posting on it and although it is a great post, I figured I could streamline it even more by just using SCCM alone to achieve the same outcome. It is nice when you are out of the office and your backup might not have the time to keep an eye on the antivirus infections.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
The video at this link and embedded below captures a first in human history, the first reusable space launch vehicle launching into space and returning in reusable form via a soft landing. This is important for many reasons. The economics of it is a key driver. Up to 90% of the cost of launch is in the rockets that till this point have always been destroyed by re-entry.
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
Almost any size of business can take advantage of a hybrid backup solution. How it’s implemented may differ between them, but both ends of the scale can achieve an efficient, secure, highly available and scalable solution. Read More.
Cloud Musings
NOVEMBER 22, 2015
The Dell Fellows program recognizes engineers for their outstanding and sustained technical achievements, engineering contributions and advancement of the industry. They are also seen as top innovators that have distinguished themselves through ingenuity, intellectual curiosity and inventiveness in the delivery of technology solutions. For these reasons and more, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to speak with Timothy G.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 22, 2015
A while ago, I wrote an article about bootstrapping servers into Ansible —in other words, how to prepare servers to be managed via Ansible. In order for a server to be managed via Ansible, you usually must first create a user account for Ansible, populate the appropriate SSH keys, and grant the new Ansible user sudo permissions. The process I described in my earlier blog post works great for manually-built servers (physical or virtual), but I recently needed to revisit this process for cloud ins
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. Customers can choose between 11 regions around the world today and, in addition to Korea, we are adding regions in India, a second region in China, and Ohio in 2016. Today, I am excited to add the United Kingdom to that list!
Mick's IT Blog
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
I recently converted my firm to Microsoft Endpoint. Part of the process is including endpoint in the golden image. I wrote this powershell script that will install endpoint and then remove the necessary registry keys so it will set itself back up when the golden image is laid down on a new machine. You may wonder why I have an uninstall first. I do this in all of my installation scripts in the event something is wrong with the currently installed app and it needs to be reinstalled.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
At the 2015 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC15), in Austin, Texas, Bright Computing was recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. Bright Computing’s Cluster Manager for HPC was named the Editors’ Choice for Best HPC Cluster Solution or Technology. The annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors Choice Awards are determined through a nomination and voting process with the global HPCwire community, as well as selectio
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