CTOvision

DECEMBER 1, 2013

'By Bob Gourley Pasted below and at this link is an interesting Google Glass video. I captured it after Penn & Teller both gave me permission to record them while onstage. I was at their show and given the opportunity to participate as an observer to one of their most famous and amazing acts, one involving two magic bullets. Also at this link. The video underscores a few things technologists should track: - Wearable computing is not mainstream yet.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 2, 2013

'It''s not exactly "Field of Dreams." But a field in Iowa provides evidence of how the data center revolution can transform a piece of empty land into a $1 billion Internet traffic hub in a matter of months.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 3, 2013

'I just read Tom Catalini’s “ Everybody Knows IT, But They Still Need Help ” where he wrote: People know IT now. But they also need help. That’s not necessarily obvious to them, because it can be obscured by their comfort level and experience. It’s obvious to you, though, so don’t be afraid to take a leadership role and help. Very true.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2013

'The theme for next week’s Gartner Data Center conference , “ Taking Charge, Leading Change — Your I&O Transformation Can’t Wait ”, is a real wake up call for today’s I&O leaders. Gartner’s focus on operational excellence highlights how the line-of-business and information technology (IT) management are being entangled by the fast moving and ever changing technology landscape.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

'By Bob Gourley. We have previously discussed research and analysis we did for the Cyber Conflict Studies Association on the many “Wake-Up Calls” the nation’s policy makers have declared themselves to have had regarding cyber security. If history is any predictor of the past, we will still be getting these wake-up calls long into the future.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 4, 2013

'Liquid Web has a new private cloud offering that consists of a bare metal server on its Storm cloud platform that can be easily partitioned and moved between private and public clouds.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2013

'The shadow IT department is the one that the CIO doesn’t know about Image Credit. As the person who has the CIO job, you’d like to think that you have things under control That when the rest of the company has an IT need they’ll come to you, ask your permission to do something, and then live with whatever you tell them. The reality is a bit different.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 5, 2013

'While having my morning coffee this morning, I was reading t Preview hrough my emails and caught Martha Heller’s “The Heller Report” Martha’s report is one of the few newsletters that I always open and read – it is that good ( you should sign up ). The first item in the newsletter was an article by Chris Van Liew, Chief Information Officer, Weyerhaeuser Company titled CIO Says “I’m to Blame” if Vendors Don’t Deliver.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 4, 2013

'An activist group is mounting an effort to force the state of Utah to shut off the water supply to the National Security Agency''s huge data center in Bluffdale, Utah.

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Mick's IT Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

'This script will add a user to the local administrators group. It will also verify if the user is added and write both a registry key for the add/remove programs and a key for the WMI entry so that it will appear in a WMI query. There were already scripts out there to do this function, but I wrote this one for our SCCM build so that there is a verification in the build process that one of the accounts we add to the local admin group is actually there.

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The Investing Edge

DECEMBER 5, 2013

'According to a new study this week, 41 percent of global organizations will increase their IT security budgets in 2014. The increased focus on securing corporate data and devices probably isn’t surprising to most industry onlookers, given the amount of media coverage we’ve seen recently around attacks on enterprises, not to mention Edward Snowden and the NSA.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 1, 2013

'Innovate on Purpose: Why corporate innovation is so difficult. Quote : So tip your hat to the corporate innovator. She’s got to overcome a significant amount of inertia and risk, convince an executive team of the need for innovation, then fight to keep the scope of the project as large and as disruptive as possible. She’s got to overcome existing allocations and fight for resources.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 3, 2013

'Unplanned data center outages are expensive, and getting more costly. A new study sponsored by Emerson Network Power reveals that the cost of downtime has increased 41 percent since an original 2010 study.

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Mick's IT Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2013

'This script will get the proper software name and associated GUID. I use this script when writing uninstaller powershell scripts. You can use the GUID in an msiexec so that you do not need the source files for the uninstall. # * # Author: Mick Pletcher # Date: 30 November 2013 # # Program: Get Software Names and GUID # * Clear-Host Function RenameWindow ($Title) { #Declare Local Memory Set-Variable -Name a -Scope Local -Force $a = (Get-Host).UI.RawUI $a.WindowTitle = $Title #Cleanup Local Memor

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2013

'Today I''m proud and honored to announce my appointment to the Board of Advisors for Veterans 360. Their mission is to provide young, recently-separated combat veterans with a program of support that will help them develop the professional and interpersonal skills needed to succeed in civilian life. The goal of this worthwhile organization is to use engagement, education, employment, and healing to help our student-veterans utilize what they have learned to manage the resources that are availab

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A CIO's Voice

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

'There are many types of CIOs-– operational, strategic, and transformational; each has their advantages. A good CIO is one that has all these traits. There is another trait that has advantages to an organization. That trait is disruptive. Many CIOs stay within a particular industry. A pharma CIO will normally stay in pharma or a financial CIO will generally stay in financial services.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 4, 2013

'Developers at staid technology companies such as eBay and PayPal have seen the perks of developing with the hip server-side JavaScript runtime Node.js. Many have watched it speed application development and lower memory utilization in comparison with more traditional programming languages.

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Mick's IT Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

'The Autodesk suite is not the easiest to uninstall because of all the components that the built in uninstaller does not uninstall. I went in and extracted all of the GUIDs for each components and created the powershell script below to uninstall the entire suite. The firm I work for splits up the BDS Ultimate suite into two different disciplines, Architecture and Engineering.

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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.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2013

'In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency , this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake , the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information te

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 4, 2013

'Picking a winning career path in technology is difficult even if you have years of industry experience. The great thing about having over 15 years of experience in IT is that I have great 20/20 rear vision. I know now that investing in my Cisco certification in 2001 was a much better idea than updating my Novell Certification. However, it wasn’t so clear cut at the time.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 6, 2013

'Groupon might seem like a place where application development happens fast. But engineers weren''t able to move quickly enough, prompting the company to make a major architectural move over the past year to Node.js.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 2, 2013

'In this post, I’ll discuss how you could use Open vSwitch (OVS) and GRE tunnels to connect bare metal workloads. While OVS is typically used in conjunction with a hypervisor such as KVM or Xen, you’re certainly not restricted to only using it on hypervisors. Similarly, while GRE tunnels are commonly used to connect VMs or containers, you’re definitely not restricted from using them with bare metal workloads as well.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

'Server virtualization nested and tiered hypervisors A few years ago I did a piece (click here) about the then emerging trend of tiered hypervisors, particular using different products or technologies in the same environment. Tiered snow management tools and technologies Tiered hypervisors can be as simple as using different technologies such as VMware vSphere/ESXi, Microsoft […].

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 1, 2013

'Reblogged from Cloud Architect Musings: Introduction. Not long ago, I posted an article outlining how you could install a HA OpenStack environment on your laptop or workstation, using Vagrant with a virtualization tool, such as VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, or VMware Fusion. That post borrowed heavily from another post by my Rackspace colleague, James Thorne and was designed to allow someone to get up and running quickly on OpenStack for testing and demonstrating high-availability. .

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 3, 2013

'Microsoft has announced a major expansion of its Dublin data center, which serves as the primary delivery hub for its cloud computing services for Europe. The company will spend $230 million to add 169,000 square feet of space.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 2, 2013

'I’ve been doing some experimenting with virtual Ethernet (veth) interfaces in Ubuntu as part of the ongoing work with network namespaces, LXC, and related technologies. A few times I’ve run into a very weird situation, and I have yet to figure out exactly what’s happening. I thought I might share it here in the hopes that someone else has seen this behavior and knows a) what causes it, and b) how to fix it.

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Sean Daniel

DECEMBER 4, 2013

'My wife got a new laptop, first one in 10 years. I’m very proud of her. She’s the opposite of me, and pretty much doesn’t like change on her computer. This is most likely due to the fact she touches a computer for less than 1/2 an hour a day, and doesn’t want to spend 10 minutes of the 30 figuring out where the “File” menu went (yes, the IE7 upgrade just about killed my wife).

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

DECEMBER 3, 2013

'Last week, Sam Ford published a great article in Harvard Business Review blogs. It could have been a fairly garden-variety rant about a bad customer service experience with the home improvement retailer Lowe''s, but the author translated it beautifully into an analysis of four reasons why the experience went wrong. When I discussed it with my friend and local "co-opetitor" Sadie Van Buren , we saw how applicable Ford’s points are not only to retail but to the services industry, and quickly mo

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 5, 2013

'There''s a computing arms race going on in the world of bitcoins. Interest in the digital crypto-currency is driving the development of specialized hardware using FPGAs and ASIC chips, which are selling out almost as fast as they can be built. This is also prompting the creation of high-density data.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

'Welcome to Technology Short Take #37, the latest in my irregularly-published series in which I share interesting articles from around the Internet, miscellaneous thoughts, and whatever else I feel like throwing in. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. Ivan does a great job of describing the difference between the management, control, and data planes, as well as providing examples.

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