CTOvision

MARCH 31, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Editor’s note: This strikes me as important news that can impact every sector of the economy and every industry, as well as the future of humanity. Yep, this can be really big. Read the release below for more, including info on how to watch the scientific symposium online. – bg. Strategic Big Brain Science: NIH celebrates grand opening of John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 4, 2014

'Facebook revealed some aerial photos as well as a peek inside the data hall in its new, 100 percent wind-powered data center in Altoona, Iowa. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 2, 2014

'Building a next generation IT department is hard work Image Credit. Yea! The global economy is improving and that means that good things are going to be coming to the IT department because the rest of the company has finally come to realize the importance of information technology. Specifically, since you have the CIO position, it’s going to be time for you to whip the IT team into shape in order to take on all of the new initiatives that the company is going to be preparing to rollout.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 2, 2014

'One year ago, I completed the controversial post, Please Stop Creating Microsoft Access Databases. It drew an onslaught of comments from those that have been successful developing on this platform and others who struggle with the issues caused by siloed databases. Now, one year later I''ve decided to revisit this topic. Developers Love their Platforms - But Big Data Platforms Are Strategic.

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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

APRIL 4, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Salesforce.com Announces New Industries Strategy. BOSTON, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM ), the world’s #1 CRM platform, today announced a new industries strategy aimed at accelerating the company’s growth and transforming the way companies across key industries connect with their customers.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 31, 2014

'The Data Centers LLC has plans for a $1 billion dollar data center project that included its own on-site generation. About 700 residents, many of whom are not happy, showed up to a hearing on the project. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 30, 2014

'Google Flu Trends’ Failure Shows Good Data > Big Data – Kaiser Fung – Harvard Business Review. Quote : The amount of data still tends to dominate discussion of big data’s value. But more data in itself does not lead to better analysis, as amply demonstrated with Flu Trends. Large datasets don’t guarantee valid datasets. That’s a bad assumption, but one that’s used all the time to justify the use of and results from big data projects.

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CTOvision

MARCH 31, 2014

'By ShannonPerry. Have you noticed a new lock in your address bar? Last week, Google announced new security measures for Gmail – “something we made a top priority after last summer’s revelations.” The change is yet another reaction to last year’s revelations of Edward Snowden, the controversial whistleblower who made national headlines and garnered global attention for revealing mass surveillance programs at the NSA.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 29, 2014

'The Week in Review: It''s the Battle of the Cloud Titans, as Google, Amazon and Cisco all make major cloud announcements. Meanwhile, Latisys expands to the UK and CenturyLink outlines plans to add 20 megawatts of data center capacity. Read More.

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The Investing Edge

APRIL 4, 2014

'In recent posts we’ve discussed how the shift to the cloud , the explosion of mobile usage , and the massive growth in data will help drive the next wave of productivity and economic gains for companies. But these new technologies also dramatically shif the nature of where data is, how much there is, and how it is accessed, and therefore require an entirely new approach to IT security, which is already a $60 billion market.

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A CIO's Voice

APRIL 1, 2014

'As I look for a new role that is suitable to my experience and background, I often get rejection letters. At first I would delete them but I decided to keep them and periodically review them. Not that I am angry over being rejected. Contrary, rejection letters just make me have thicker skin. Getting a rejection letter is better then the black hole of no response.

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CTOvision

APRIL 2, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. On the Crimean Peninsula, Russia writes the rules because they control the territory. They control who goes in and who goes out. Anyone who wants access to the Crimea can only do so if Russia allows it. You might have a treaty that says it is not supposed to be that way, but the fact is, Russia is in charge because they control all access.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 3, 2014

'Greenpeace is touting the efforts of Google, Apple and Facebook in both using and promoting green energy. Amazon, as well as wholesale providers Dupont Fabros and Digital Realty (who both house a lot of the top brands) score on the low side. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 30, 2014

'The following are some of my tips, articles, blog posts, presentations and other content on SSD. Keep in mind that the question should not be if SSD are in your future, rather when, where, with what, from whom and how much. Also keep in mind that a bit of SSD as storage or cache in the right place can go a long way, while a lot of SSD will give you a benefit however also cost a lot of cash.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 3, 2014

'I found myself in an engaging Twitter conversation (as Twitter conversations go). The question I came away with, “Are infrastructure engineers headed for extinction in the enterprise?” I recently wrote a post how I believe enterprise infrastructure is just as sexy as enterprise software development. I used Google and Facebook as examples of companies that […].

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CTOvision

MARCH 29, 2014

'By ShannonPerry. Nearly everyone has an opinion of Steve Jobs. Since his death in 2011, a bad movie , a weighty autobiography , and numerous anecdotes have surfaced – describing his inexhaustible ambition, his excitable, and his disrespect for others. Perhaps you have heard pieces of the rumored fish tank incident ? After painstakingly designing and building the world’s very first iPod, a team of engineers presented their creation to Jobs, who immediately rejected the mode.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 3, 2014

'More connectivity brings benefits, but also the potential for security vulnerabilities and even malicious code, whether intentional or unintentional, writes Winston Saunders of Intel. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 31, 2014

'Overall I give the Lenovo TS140 a provisional "A" which would be a solid "A" once the BIOS/firmware issue mentioned above is resolved for VMware, otoh, if you are not concerned about using the TS140 for VMware, then consider it as an "A". As mentioned above, I liked it so much I actually bought one to add to my collection. The post Lenovo TS140 Server and Storage I/O Review appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 4, 2014

'Sometimes you are so close to something you can forget to separate the forest from the trees. This has been the case when it comes to cloud computing in the enterprise. I’ve often argued Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) isn’t the end game of private cloud. For example, the value of Amazon’s AWS service isn’t […].

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CTOvision

APRIL 4, 2014

'By ShannonPerry. We’ve written plenty about data breaches. Within the last year, valuable data has been stolen from Target , the University of Maryland at College Park , the California Department of Motor Vehicles , and the Internal Revenue Service. Retailers and reputations have suffered immensely from the negative publicity following thefts, and the frequency of breaches is increasing.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 2, 2014

'Is your data center certified for an Extinction Level Event? Are you ready for babysitting as a Service? A roundup of April Fool''s Day in the data center. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 29, 2014

'World backup day is time to test restore and data protection of data and other digital assets including photos images and documents. The post Data Protection Diaries: March 31 World Backup Day is Restore Data Test Time appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 2, 2014

'For an IT geek, I’ve been in more than my fair share of senior management meetings. I’ve enjoyed the role as arbitrator between IT and the business. I can tell you one thing; I’ve never heard a business owner ask, “It’s that solution that all our competitors use from vendor x proprietary?” A solution being open or proprietary has never been on the list of business requirements.

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CTOvision

MARCH 30, 2014

'All who track DoD technology issues have been waiting way too long to see DoD to capitalize on the benefits of Cloud Solutions. This topic has been studied for years (see, for example, DSB Report on Cyber Security and Reliability in a Digital Cloud). Building on years of work, Ms. Takai, DoD’s CIO, signed out the Department''s Cloud Strategy a year and a half ago.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 31, 2014

'Network equipment maker Arista Networks has filed for an initial public offering, hoping to raise up to $200 million. The company has built a solid footprint among Wall Street traders and cloud computing providers seeking high-performance networking gear Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 31, 2014

'Overall I give the Lenovo TS140 an provisional "A" which would be a solid "A" once the BIOS/firmware issue mentioned above is resolved for VMware. Otoh, if you are not concerned about using the TS140 for VMware (or can do a work around), then consider it as an "A". Plus I recently also bought one for myself. The post Part II: What I did with Lenovo TS140 in my Server and Storage I/O Review appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 4, 2014

'I’ve watched this video about 3 times already and I now understand it’s a spoof. The sad part is that I’ve been in at least 3 of the 5 roles depicted in the video. More commonly, I find myself in the “Expert” role. It can be difficult to translate poor requirements that aren’t even fully […].

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CTOvision

APRIL 4, 2014

'By ShannonPerry. On March 27 th , Microsoft’s Word, Excel, and PowerPoint became available in the App Store for the iPad. Microsoft asserts that the new applications maintain the functionality and familiarity associated with Microsoft Office, “while offering a fantastic touch experience built from the ground up for iPad.” The new application is available through an annual subscription, with 5 copies of the software for tablets and five copies for Macs/PCs.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 31, 2014

'High frequency trading is in the news this week, as are the data centers in northern New Jersey that serve as the technology engines powering the practice. Here''s a look at the four data centers mentioned prominently in this week''s coverage. Read More.

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Future of CIO

APRIL 3, 2014

VALUE is not something that can easily be measured and is very subjective. Value is measured in time, dollars, quality and customer satisfaction! Most of IT organizations measure IT via system performance, IT project on budget and on time, or IT department cost commitment, but the most debatable IT measurement discussion is how to measure the VALUE IT delivers to the business, or put simply, customer satisfaction, do IT measure the right things to present to the right audience?

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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.