CTOvision

JANUARY 28, 2015

'By May Gourley. This is a second in a series of posts about the program R. In my last post (see: R is a Language and Environment for Statistical Computing and Graphics ) , I explained what R was. For those who are interested in starting a project in R, the steps to download a copy of your own are quick and easy: Simply go to www.r-project.org. . To download R, click on the link labeled CRAN on the left side, under the words "Download, Packages".

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Efficiency is a key factor that all data center managers seek, whether they are squeezing a bit of power by making server fans variable speed or they are making bigger differences at the power and cabinet level, it is often the “holy grail” for the data center industry. Two session leaders at the.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 28, 2015

'In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster. This has generally worked well for those companies that have planned and tested their DR systems and plans appropriately. In recent years organizations have been looking for more robust solutions for disaster recovery than storing their data in separate data centers.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 26, 2015

'An agile development team is humming along, maturing its practice, putting out regularly scheduled application releases, improving quality, and making business users happy. Then, something happens. Maybe the infrastructure needs an upgrade or needs to scale. Maybe there is a difficult to diagnose performance issue. Or maybe, the business and development teams are looking to deploy a new.

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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.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2015

'By May Gourley. Enterprise technologists supporting data scientists and statisticians have no doubt heard of R. But what is it really? With this post we are starting a series that will take you from an introduction to a tutorial that shows you how to download R to an ability to run a sample program. With just a few minutes time you will be able to learn enough to know more about what many of your users are looking for.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 26, 2015

'From random spot checks at colos to being part of Cisco’s utopic One Cloud vision, BT Americas CTO Jason Cook offers a glimpse into the giant’s infrastructure strategy Read More.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 28, 2015

'"Government IT managers must accept that cloud computing services are services, not the purchases of technology. This usually represents a fundamental change in how technology is acquired and managed. Since the transaction doesn’t involve any physical entity, procedures and processes associated with the inspection, acceptance, inventory and management of IT may not apply.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 28, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. Editor''s note: I''ve previously mentioned how proud I am to be associated with Invincea as an advisor. The press release below underscores some of why I am so excited to be on their team. --bg. From: [link]. Invincea Announces Breakthrough Growth in 2014. Added 400 New Enterprise Customers to Total 1.8M Users Secured Worldwide; Secured Core IP Through Patent Awards; Leadership in Advanced Threat Protection Endpoint Security Market.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Energy consumption is one of the largest operating expenses for a data center, contributing to nearly 50 percent of total data center spend. Data center operators and owners can minimize the impact of unpredictable energy markets by better understanding the markets and establishing smart energy.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 30, 2015

'I’ve written a bit about the agile data center lately. I’ve previously defined the agile data center as something that “allows organizations to efficiently and effectively add, remove and change services at the speed of the business, not the speed of technology.”. I still stand by that definition but I wanted to expand on it a bit. Agility does allow organizations to ‘add, remove and changes services’ quickly and easily.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 30, 2015

'Hello and welcome to this January 2015 Server and StorageIO update newsletter. Its 2015 and the new year is off and running picking up where 2014 left off. January is typically a relatively quiet month when it comes to technology announcements and other industry activity. However January is also time where there is a lot going on behind the scenes.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 28, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. The Feb 17-20 Strata Hadoop World in San Jose has an incredible line up of speakers and hot topics. Attending is a great way to track the latest in the community, learn (and share) lessons learned and find the most capable technologies ready for enterprise use. If you register at this link and use the discount code CTOV you will receive a 20% discount: [link].

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Partnership can leverage existing VMware install base and Google''s scale to compete with AWS and Microsoft Azure Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 26, 2015

'Last week I was asked whether there were any ‘secrets’ that companies can follow to ensure success with big data. My short answer was “Nope.” My longer answer was something along the lines of “there aren’t any secrets, just lots of work and a little bit of luck.’ Most folks don’t like to hear answers like that.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 30, 2015

'Nigel Poulton recently posted an article titled “ESXi vs. Hyper-V - Could Docker Support Be Significant,” in which he contemplates whether Microsoft’s announcement of Docker support on Windows will be a factor in the hypervisor battle between ESXi and Hyper-V. His post got me thinking—which is a good thing, I’d say—and I wanted to share my thoughts on the topic here.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 30, 2015

'By Charles Hall. There are 2 upcoming events that might be of interest to anyone in the federal space: Next Friday, February 6, in Charleston, SSC LANT/CDCA will have their quarterly Industry Day Event. It’s free (even has a free lunch!). A link to the agenda is provided below. They will go over all the upcoming opportunities. It’s worth attending or sending someone for networking purposes.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 26, 2015

'IT head says school went from "worst data center in higher education" to modern, scalable, energy efficient solution Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 29, 2015

'I was a recent guest on The Geek-Whisperers. On the podcast, the team asked me the question of how did I make the transition from a pure technologist to a management consultant or better put by Matt Brender, What the.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2015

'A number of readers have asked—via e-mail, of course, given the subject of this post—why comments aren’t available yet on the new site. I’d like to take a quick moment to explain the current situation. First and foremost, it’s not because I don’t want feedback from readers. I would love to continue to have the outstanding feedback from readers that I’ve had over the last 9 years of this site.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 30, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. MIT has created a robotic cheetah that has the ability to run and jump like a real animal. The robo-cheetah is built with a new algorithm that allows it to leap in a lively manner, while navigating the terrain of a grass lawn. This cheetah can run up to a speed of 10 mph, whereas a real cheetah can run at a speed of 60 mph. This new robot has helped researchers understand animal locomotion and how to make future robots move more efficiently.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 27, 2015

'Company denies hacker group''s claim it was responsible, says outage caused by configuration change Read More.

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Lundberg Media

JANUARY 27, 2015

'IT has become integral to many aspects of business, from marketing and customer engagement to new product design. This requires a new way of organizing and engaging across functions. How important is this cross-functional engagement? It’s huge. Seventy-five percent of the 750 respondents to our global survey (see “The Leadership Edge in Digital Transformation,” from […].

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 28, 2015

Digital CIOs have the appropriate balance of technical, business/management, creativity, domain, and interpersonal skills. Nowadays information is the lifeblood, and the emergent technology is more often the business disruptor. And due to the changing nature of information & technology, IT is always in the changing environment creating unexpected situations and requiring quick and appropriate responses based on the conditions.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. If you will be in Boston 30-31 Mar this is the place to be, the 2015 Chief Data Strategy Forum. Here is more from IQPC: Driving Improved Decision-Making Through Data-Centric Business Intelligence. Considering the progressive impact and significance of data in business environments throughout the past decade, the Chief Data Officer has emerged as the “New Business Thought Leader” charged with unlocking the true value of data as a strategic asset.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 28, 2015

'Selecting the best service provider for regularly scheduled preventative maintenance is important for the health of your data center, writes Bhavesh Patel of ASCO. Here are seven questions to ask service providers prior to signing your next contract. Read More.

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Nutanix

JANUARY 30, 2015

How quickly times flies! We launched the Nutanix NEXT community podcast series in December, and our weekly following continues to increase thanks to you, the community!

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 28, 2015

Sum up the high quality leader - b eing great in Attitude, Aptitude and Altitude. Business and the world becomes over-complex and hyperconnected, leadership effectiveness and qualities needs to be assessed within the context of the organization, not as a stand-alone program. Day by day should be assessed via mind shift - how do they think; positive influence - how do they lead, competence - how do they cultivate capabilities, performance - how do they make continuous delivery, potential - how do

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CTOvision

JANUARY 26, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. Pentaho will be holding a special Big Data Blueprints session 5 Feb in Arlington VA. We most strongly suggest this activity for federal agency and system integrator architects seeking to optimize their current data holdings. From the invite : Get started with our blueprints to deliver immediate results. Pentaho has developed a set of big data blueprints that are empowering organizations to generate real business value with Hadoop, NoSQL, and other emerging technologies.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 27, 2015

'There is no formula to use when determining whether to leverage a global CDN or build a data center network, writes Sharon Bell of CDNetworks. However, thorough research with the goal in mind will help determine what is best for your enterprise. Read More.

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Nutanix

JANUARY 30, 2015

How quickly times flies! We launched the Nutanix NEXT community podcast series in December, and our weekly following continues to increase thanks to you, the community!

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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.