CTOvision
JANUARY 16, 2014
'By Prayson Pate When discussing innovation, most people focus on advances in technology. Technology is important, but it is only one of three key components required for innovation. In order to maximize the opportunity for successful innovation, one must combine the following: A customer problem or opportunity. Domain knowledge. Advances in technology.
CIO Musings
JANUARY 11, 2014
'One thing that has changed about travel in the last decade is the amount of technology we take with us. A friend at work asked me for tips on travelling with technology. I don''t travel that much, perhaps a trip every 2-3 months. For me there isn''t that much difference between personal travel and business travel. I use a personal laptop during each, and take about the same amount of gear.
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Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 13, 2014
'Schneider''s acquisition of AST highlights the rise in adoption and competition in the modular data center market. As use cases move beyond hyper-scale and mobile and into the enterprise, executives in the sector discuss the state of modular adoption and design.
Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 14, 2014
'I read a lot of articles and blogs about big data. There are a lot of people singing the praises of big data and a lot of folks trying to sell services and platforms for helping with big data. I’ve done my share of praising myself but I’ve also tried to be realistic in my writings on big data. Big data isn’t the answer … or maybe it is. Regardless, big data concepts can be useful for any business, whether large or small.
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CTOvision
JANUARY 16, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: I’m very proud to be serving on the Haystax Technology advisory board. This firm is absolutely one to watch. For more see their website at [link] – bg. Haystax Technology Names Advisory Board Members. Six Advisors with Defense, Intelligence and Commercial Experience to Deliver Strategic Guidance to Haystax.
The Investing Edge
JANUARY 17, 2014
'By now the benefits of cloud computing are well understood. Whether by reducing costs, providing better services, or improving efficiencies, the cloud has transformed business operations in a wide range of industries. What’s not as widely known is how the cloud is disrupting legacy industries previously thought immune to the forces of cloud. Now industries like taxi services, custom furniture design, commercial printing, and others have moved toward virtual or cloud-based solutions that offer l
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Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 16, 2014
'My wife and I just moved to Tulsa from Dallas. I keep getting the question of “why?” My answer? Because we could. I was born and raised in Oklahoma and have lived in Tulsa before. When we started thinking about places to move, Tulsa kept jumping to the front of the line. I have friends and family in and around Tulsa with most of my family back ‘home’ (about an hour from Tulsa).
CTOvision
JANUARY 15, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Editor’s note: My sense is this relationship will have important and positive impacts on many clients leveraging Hadoop in enterprises, especially those that would like to leverage Apache Accumulo. – bg. PALO ALTO, CA and SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwired – Jan 15, 2014) - Cloudera , the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop ™ and Koverse, the company that separates signal from noise for data-driven organizations, today announced
SPF13
JANUARY 16, 2014
spf13-vim, a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it’s vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more. I recently read a thread where the author asked for feedback on whether or not to use spf13-vim.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 17, 2014
'Internap Network Services unveiled its newest data center in Secaucus last night, offering a look inside a facility that will be a key driver of the company''s ambitions in the greater New York market.
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.
The Investing Edge
JANUARY 14, 2014
'If you are like me, you might be wondering how large the “Internet of Things” could become, and whether it will get the press, hype and activity that “Big Data” has received. Well, Google answered that question yesterday when they bought Nest for $3.2 billion. Several industry analysts and participants, including Cisco, BRI, Bosch, Gartner and IDC are all predicting several trillion dollar markets in goods and services, as well as billions of devices connected to the internet by 2020 that sense
CTOvision
JANUARY 17, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: The release below from the Defense Information Systems Agency points to progress enabling several key DoD missions with mobility solutions. I’m on the advisory board of Fixmo , a firm enabling this progress-bg. FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – The new year will bring new mobile capabilities to as many as 100,000 DOD users.
Mick's IT Blog
JANUARY 15, 2014
'This can be done without having to reboot the machine. You want to use setx.exe to create the new variable. The format to do this is: setx.exe /m i.e. setx.exe MIG_IGNORE_PROFILE_MISSING 1 /m In order to not have to reboot the machine, go to task manager and end the process tree of explorer.exe. Open explorer.exe back up and the new environmental variable is now present.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 15, 2014
'A report from DCD shows some very healthy trends for the outsourced data center world, which is now estimated to be 25 percent of the overall data center market. Outsourced Data center investment has increased 13 percent over the past 12 months to around $8.8 billion.
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Scott Lowe
JANUARY 13, 2014
'In this post, I’m going to show you a workaround to running Synergy on OS X Mavericks. If you visit the official Synergy page , you’ll note that the site indicates that full Mavericks support is still pending. However, if you’re willing to “get your hands dirty,” you can run Synergy on OS X Mavericks right now. If you’re unfamiliar with Synergy, read this write-up (from 2 years ago) on how I use Synergy in my home office setup.
CTOvision
JANUARY 13, 2014
'By Sheri Harrison The US Office of Foreign Assets Control sets regulations for economic practices between the United States and other countries. It ensures that all interactions between domestic companies and foreign companies maintain U.S. national security. What does this organization have to do with wireless providers? It has a say in what kinds of customers they can work with.
Mick's IT Blog
JANUARY 13, 2014
'This script is intended to apply updates and hotfixes after the OS has been installed and is online. There are windows updates that cannot be installed offline, as described in this blog. For these updates, I have written a script that will apply the updates using wusa.exe. In order to properly install them, I recommend numbering the filenames so that the script will read them in the correct sequence.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 17, 2014
'While both public and private cloud deployments are on the rise, it’s hybrid cloud environments that currently provide organizations with cloud computing’s best benefits–- a trend that will shift in 2014 as the next generation of dedicated servers, or “smart servers,” evolve to offer all of hybrid.
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Storage IO Blog
JANUARY 13, 2014
'Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley The O’Reilly @oreillymedia media folks (oops, excuse me, Microsoft Press) sent me out (that’s a disclosure btw) an real soft cover print copy of Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley aka @MicroFarley of Microsoft/Storsimple that features a […].
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
JANUARY 17, 2014
'If you have ever encountered this error, you may find this post helpful. It frequently occurs when one tries to join an external meeting, and one''s Lync (server) does not permit access by the external party who sent you the meeting request, or vice-versa. . By default, if you have Lync installed locally, clicking on the "Join Online Meeting" hyperlink will try to initiate the meeting using your Lync client.
Future of CIO
JANUARY 17, 2014
IT resolution shouldn’t be empty; setting metrics shouldn’t be a too much inward focus. It is the beginning of New Year, many IT leaders may start making ‘IT resolution’-It is very important for the IT leadership to be communicative, savvy and forward-thinking enough to tie IT goals into business strategies, and essentially, the technological footprint upon which most organizations are dependent.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 11, 2014
'The Week in Review: Wholesale data center leasing up 25 percent in 2013, Schneider Electric acquires AST Modular, survey sees NSA chilling effort for U.S. providers, an overview of the hypervisor market for 2014.
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Storage IO Blog
JANUARY 12, 2014
'Some Windows Server Storage I/O related commands The following are some commands and tools for Microsoft Windows environments that are useful for storage I/O activities (among others). Finding a Windows physical disk, SSD or storage system device name So you may know and how to find out the more familiar Windows storage device (Solid State […].
Virtualized Greek
JANUARY 14, 2014
'I go into a deep dive discussion on why I believe OpenStack isn’t enterprise ready yet.
Future of CIO
JANUARY 15, 2014
It takes top-down’s systematic discipline and bottom-up’s agility to execute solidly and innovate boldly. Digital organizations today face such a dilemma, on the one side; top-down strategy mapping is a logical step to ensuring smooth execution; on the other side, innovation takes freedom and flexibility, usually happens from bottom up. Consider a scenario, where an organization has performed the strategy mapping and made investment decisions for the budgetary period., and everyone knows this is
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 15, 2014
'2013 was certainly an eventful year for the data center, writes Rani Osnat of CTERA. And this year will also be important in terms of the data center and the cloud.
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Storage IO Blog
JANUARY 14, 2014
'Dell Inspiron 660 i660, Virtual Server Diamond in the rough? During the 2013 post thanksgiving black friday shopping day, I did some on-line buying including a Dell Inspiron 660 i660 (5629BK) to be used as a physical machine (PM) or VMware host (among other things). Now technically I know, this is a workstation or desktop […].
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
JANUARY 17, 2014
If you have ever encountered this error, you may find this post helpful. It frequently occurs when one tries to join an external meeting, and one's Lync (server) does not permit access by the external party who sent you the meeting request, or vice-versa. . By default, if you have Lync installed locally, clicking on the "Join Online Meeting" hyperlink will try to initiate the meeting using your Lync client.
Future of CIO
JANUARY 11, 2014
"VUCA" brings the new level of complexity, opportunities, and risks for digital businesses Today. "VUCA" is an acronym used to describe or reflect on volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of general conditions and situation. (Wikipedia), perhaps it’s the best description of today’s digital characteristics -" VUCA” as Digital Normality. Volatility V = Volatility : The nature and dynamics of change, and the nature & speed of change forces and change catalysts.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 13, 2014
'The data center industry has vastly diverse offerings and often use alternate meanings of the word “modularity.” This article is intended to help guide owners through the process of partnering with a modular construction provider to ensure they achieve their desired product outcome and return on.
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