CTOvision
MAY 2, 2015
Friend and CTOvision reader Sean Moore of Centripetal Networks is a proven engineer with experience developing technologies and leading tech focused businesses. He is highly regarded for his mastery of network cyber security, IP communications technology and TCP/IP networking. At Centripetal he leads product development on solutions proven to scale to the size of the Internet itself.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 7, 2015
The financial, manufacturing and entertainment industries, among others, are becoming increasingly fond of the next generation of business intelligence. Called operational intelligence (OI), the technology can analyze live, fast-changing data and provide immediate feedback for ever-growing streams.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
MAY 6, 2015
CIOs need to know how to go about creating a strategic plan for their company Image Credit: Kyle Van Horn. If you ask any CIO to participate in creating a strategic plan for his or her company, you’ll probably see their eyes light up. This is what they live for – getting a seat at the big table to help chart the course of the company. We all believe that we deserve this position because of the importance of information technology.
Social, Agile and Transformation
MAY 5, 2015
Here is the hardest problem for a performing agile development team - Can you build me something that does A, B, and C for Users X and Y and have it completed within the next couple of weeks What is the problem with this form of requirement? Many of you might start with the obvious that you need more details around A, B, and C to gain a shared understanding with the product owner or.
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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.
CTOvision
MAY 3, 2015
HIPAA was enacted in 1996, and by April 2005 security standards were required to be in place for most covered entities. In 2013 key portions of this law were updated. This post provides an overview of key elements we believe security and technology professionals (and most citizens) should be tracking. The technology and security communities focus largely on Title II of HIPAA, which provides changes to the law designed to reduce health care fraud and abuse while protecting privacy and enhancing s
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 5, 2015
Now that the colder temperatures and harsh winter weather are behind us, it's time to perform regular maintenance on cooling systems and take preventive measures to ensure the change in seasons doesn't affect their effectiveness and sustainability. Read More.
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Cloud Musings
MAY 8, 2015
"The Federal government today is in the midst of a revolution. The revolution is challenging the norms of government by introducing new ways of serving the people. New models for creating services and delivering information; new policies and procedures that are redefining federal acquisition and what it means to be a federal system integrator. This revolution also lacks the physical and tangible artifacts of the past.
CTOvision
MAY 6, 2015
With this post we are initiating coverage of Firemon, provider of proactive security intelligence and governance capabilities. Firemon enables enterprises to continuously analyze, visualize and improve the capabilities of your existing network security infrastructure. For a short introduction to the Firemon platform in the words of fonder and CEO Jody Brazil is at this link and embedded below: The FireMon proactive security platform is designed to support decision-makers in key security and netw
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 5, 2015
Raw pricing for OpenStack is 20 percent less than competitor pricing, but lack of OpenStack talent means VMware, Red Hat, and Microsoft offer better value (for now) Read More.
Virtualized Greek
MAY 6, 2015
Server SAN vendor Springpath is leveraging Docker Containers to provide storage services as part of its architecture. The implementation shows microservices the potential in the traditional data center. Springpath takes a completely abstracted approach to their storage service. Individual Virtual.
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The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?
Cloud Musings
MAY 5, 2015
FULTON, Md.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- OmniTI , a leading provider of web infrastructures and applications for companies that require scalable, high-performance, mission critical solutions, today announced that it has partnered with GovCloud Network , LLC to help clients develop and execute mission and business strategies for cloud-based services. This collaboration will offer a complete end-to-end cloud service solution for customers.
CTOvision
MAY 5, 2015
SAS and Hadoop work together in ways supportive to enterprise missions. Analysts are able to leverage comprehensive enterprise data stores by use of familiar interfaces and methods and with the well engineered SAS and Hadoop architecture can dramatically improve their results for mission. SAS Business Analytics software is focused on delivering actionable value from enterprise data holdings.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 6, 2015
In the past decade, companies in many industries have discovered the benefits of colocation. A purpose-built data center provides a safe and stable physical environment for a company’s critical computing systems, with sufficient power, cooling, and connectivity to guarantee server uptime and.
Virtualized Greek
MAY 6, 2015
EMC is giving away ScaleIO for free. ScaleIO is EMC’s Server SAN product. It’s a rapidly growing category. Wikibon’s Stu Miniman just led a session at Interop (slides here) talking about the impact of Server SANs growth on traditional storage.
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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.
Cloud Musings
MAY 8, 2015
"The Federal government today is in the midst of a revolution. The revolution is challenging the norms of government by introducing new ways of serving the people. New models for creating services and delivering information; new policies and procedures that are redefining federal acquisition and what it means to be a federal system integrator. This revolution also lacks the physical and tangible artifacts of the past.
CTOvision
MAY 4, 2015
This post is part of our series providing background and context on sponsors of Cognitio's 30 April Synergy Forum. Basis Technology provides software solutions for extracting meaningful intelligence from unstructured text. They help organizations improve the accuracy of search, text mining, link analysis, fuzzy name matching, and other applications through advanced linguistics.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 6, 2015
While metro areas used to be the preferred location for secondary data centers because of their proximity to customers, that's no longer the case. Today, many companies are turning to remote rural areas which present challenges in bandwidth, energy efficiencies and reliability. Read More.
Virtualized Greek
MAY 4, 2015
Looking at AWS, a lesson enterprises can take away is the value of T-Shirt sized service catalogs. Offering T-Shirt sized offerings can help simplify complex business requirements placed upon IT such as migrations, cloud and acquisitions.
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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.
Cloud Musings
MAY 5, 2015
FULTON, Md.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- OmniTI , a leading provider of web infrastructures and applications for companies that require scalable, high-performance, mission critical solutions, today announced that it has partnered with GovCloud Network , LLC to help clients develop and execute mission and business strategies for cloud-based services. This collaboration will offer a complete end-to-end cloud service solution for customers.
CTOvision
MAY 6, 2015
This post is part of our series providing background and context on sponsors of Cognitio's 30 April Synergy Forum. Digital Reasoning is the maker of the mission-focused analytics software platform, Synthesys®, a solution used in government agencies to uncover security threats and enable intelligence analysts to find and act on critical relationships in big data.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 8, 2015
Startup's security suite allows developers to implement “quality gates” using a customizable open source security framework prior to applications going into production Read More.
Virtualized Greek
MAY 6, 2015
EMC and Nutanix got into a bit of back and forth on Twitter and on blogosphere (is that still a thing?) About the impact of ScaleIO new pricing model (it’s free). Nutanix’ basic argument is that ScaleIO has been on.
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Scott Lowe
MAY 6, 2015
With the recent release of Ubuntu 15.04, aka “Vivid Vervet”, the Ubuntu community has also unveiled an early release of LXD (pronounced “lex-dee”), a new project aimed at revitalizing the use of LXC and LXC-based containers in the face of application container efforts such as Docker and rkt. In this post, I’ll provide a quick introduction to LXD. To make it easier to follow along with some of the examples of using LXD, I’ve created an lxd directory in my GitHub “learning-tools” repository.
CTOvision
MAY 8, 2015
This post is part of our series providing background and context on sponsors of Cognitio's 30 April Synergy Forum. Endgame just launched its first enterprise product, Endgame Enterprise, at RSA last week.Endgame Enterprise is the industry’s first endpoint detection and response (EDR) platform that delivers early warning, instant detection, and active response to advanced threats.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 4, 2015
The new IT X-factor, or converged systems, are rapidly gaining acceptance as the way to improve overall business agility, optimize staff productivity, and increase the quality and speed of services delivered to clients. Read More.
Virtualized Greek
MAY 7, 2015
John Chambers has to be one of the most aggressive CEO’s I’ve indirectly poked. A few years ago I worked on a trade study for a large customer. It was for a video conferencing system. The project was personally one.
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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.
Future of CIO
MAY 7, 2015
Digital transformation represents a break with the past, having a high level of impact and complexity. Many forward-thinking organizations declare that they are in the information management businesses regardless vertical sector, and IT plays a pivotal role in leading the digital transformation. CIOs as a digital leader: How to lead effectively? CIOs are not chief officers unless they are part of the senior leadership team.
CTOvision
MAY 7, 2015
This post is part of our series providing background and context on sponsors of Cognitio's 30 April Synergy Forum. Founded in 2010, ICG specializes in real-time streaming and analytics through its LUX solution. LUX helps organizations rapidly mine and correlate massive amounts of data as it arrives – from any source. This enables customers to acquire the intelligence required to make quick decisions and launch immediate actions.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 4, 2015
Creates foundation, secures support from Google, VMware, and Red Hat Read More.
Virtualized Greek
MAY 3, 2015
I’ve been blogging on vitualizedgeek.com for five years and have debated taking ads for five years. My thoughts continue to evolve. At Interop 2015, held in Los Vegas, I ran into fellow Chicagoan and Blogger Chris Wahl. Chris has been.
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