CTOvision

JANUARY 4, 2016

Bob Gourley. An article posted in the Ukrainian news services TSN reported that massive outages suffered in the country were caused by highly destructive malware that infected at least three regional power authorities in Ukraine. The site reported that the only way to restore power was to return to manual methods, something that may be hard to do in other nations (including the U.S.).

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 5, 2016

At the end of last year, I asked a fundamentally simple question that's difficult to answer, Should You Try Calculating ROI on Digital Transformation. My answer is yes, but the question is when, to what level of investment, and to what extent. It's a difficult issue for those driving transformation because the first questions normally asked by seasoned business executives are around costs and.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 6, 2016

We are seeing companies like Akamai and cable companies, even Netflix, wanting to have their servers really close to the edge so latency is reduced. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 6, 2016

Software Defined Networking is going to change everything for CIOs Image Credit: Cisco. Guess what CIO: there is a revolution that is just starting in the world of computer networking. Sure, you know about the importance of information technology but are you going to be ready for this? For the longest time, we’ve all been building our networks in pretty much the same way: we go to a big equipment vendor such as Cisco, Juniper, HP, IBM, etc. and buy a bunch of boxes.

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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.

Applications

CTOvision

JANUARY 6, 2016

Trevor Daughney. Gartner predicts that number of IoT devices in use worldwide will grow from an estimated 5 billion in 2015 to some 25 billion connected devices by 2020. The best business strategies will perfectly balance the ever-growing IoT market opportunities versus a rapidly evolving threat environment. To help IoT solution providers define their 2016 product roadmap, here are some of INSIDE Secure’s top IoT predictions for the year: IoT hype will become reality.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. Today, I’m happy to announce that the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 4, 2016

According to a study, 82 percent of federal IT professional respondents reported that they were using the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) cybersecurity framework to improve their security stance. The survey also demonstrated that the document is being used as a stepping stone to a more secure government. When I first read this, my immediate reaction was a resounding, “So what!

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CTOvision

JANUARY 8, 2016

Bob Gourley. In the late 1990's Tom Standage released the first edition of a book that would sweep across the tech community because of its incredible analogies to the rise of the Internet hitting the world at that time. The " Victorian Internet ", first released in 1998, was updated and re-released again in 2013. It provided a well written history and meaningful assessment of the rise of the Telegraph, and made very interesting observations about how the remarkable impact of the Telegraph could

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

In this first-ever episode of the Full Stack Journey podcast, I talk with Bart Smith ( old GitHub account migrating to new GitHub account , YouTube channel ). Bart shares some details about his journey from being a Microsoft-centric infrastructure engineer to what he calls a cloud-native full-stack engineer. Here are some notes from our conversation, along with some additional resources Bart wanted to share with readers/listeners.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 6, 2016

The choice of standards should be driven by the organization’s business mission Read More.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 6, 2016

Leadership is about future and direction, leadership without wisdom is just like the lamp without light. We are moving to the deep, deep digital dynamic, hopefully, we are also moving from a knowledge economy to the digital age with the abundance of wisdom slowly and steadily. If knowledge is concrete, intelligence is contextual, and then wisdom is abstract, like the light to guide us through.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bob Gourley. Editor's note: We have known and admired the work of Phil Reitinger for decades and believe his strengths make him uniquely qualified to successfully make progress in the important missions of this new global alliance for good. - bg. From: www.globalcyberalliance.org. The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), an international, cross-sector not-for-profit designed to identify, confront, and prevent cybersecurity risks, today announced that its first President and CEO will be Philip Reitinger

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

In this first-ever episode of the Full Stack Journey podcast, I talk with Bart Smith ( old GitHub account migrating to new GitHub account , YouTube channel ). Bart shares some details about his journey from being a Microsoft-centric infrastructure engineer to what he calls a cloud-native full-stack engineer. Here are some notes from our conversation, along with some additional resources Bart wanted to share with readers/listeners.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 7, 2016

By understanding and presenting storage characteristics such as block sizes in a way never previously possible, you can understand on a per VM basis the key elements necessary to calculate working set sizes. Read More.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 6, 2016

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.2 million+ page views with about 2300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. 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 deliver

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CTOvision

JANUARY 5, 2016

Brigg Patten. In an atmosphere not unlike the red-carpet Academy Awards, the Canadian company Conquer Mobile announced the launch of PeriopSim, a mobile application to enable nurses to practice their “parts” in delicate robotic surgeries. The company scheduled the launch to coincide with a nurse convention that occurred in Denver in March, 2015. The operation simulator is the latest in a series of innovative designs made possible by the National Research Council of Canada.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2016

After quite a bit of deliberation and planning, I’m excited (and nervous!) to announce the launch of a new podcast, titled “The Full Stack Journey Podcast”. Here are the details, structured in a Q&A format. What topics does this new podcast cover? The focus of The Full Stack Journey Podcast is to talk about the journey to becoming a full-stack engineer.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 8, 2016

Expects to triple customer base in five to 10 years, with most growth coming from enterprise Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 5, 2016

Single Instance Storage (SIS) has been removed from Windows Server 2016 (Read the Microsoft Announcement here, or below). Windows SIS is part of Microsoft’s portfolio of tools and technology for implementing Data Footprint Reduction (DFR).

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CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2016

Dennis D. McDonald. “If data analysis is Big Data’s "tip of the spear" when it comes to delivering data-dependent value to customers or clients, we also must address how that spear is shaped, sharpened, aimed, and thrown – and, of course, whether or not it hits its intended target.”. Introduction. In Meeting the Mission of Transportation Safety , Richard McKinney, U.S.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2016

Almost six years ago I shared my (then) current Getting Things Done (GTD) setup , in which I described how I used various tools, techniques, and applications to try to maximize my productivity. I’d been toying with updating that post, but I wasn’t sure that anyone would find it useful. However, a recent e-mail from a reader indicated that there probably is some interest; with that in mind, then, here’s an update on my GTD-like setup, circa early 2016.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 5, 2016

With data center construction growing at 21 percent a year and more countries implementing carbon policies, taking a business as usual approach to energy will only create headaches down the road. Read More.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 2, 2016

It’s the beginning of the New Year, also the dawn of digital age! The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.2 million page views with about 2300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. It’s the beginning of the New Year, also the dawn of digital age; and it’s the time for companies to step in and catch up, proactively and effectively

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CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2016

Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Stephen Lewia to Lead Strategic Deterrence Mission Area at Johns Hopkins APL. Parsons Manager David Warner Joins Seattle’s Minority Business Advisory Panel. Carahsoft's Michael Shrader: Public Sector Taps Commercial IT Platforms for. - ExecutiveBiz (blog).

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Nutanix

JANUARY 6, 2016

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 5, 2016

Second solar power purchase agreement brings colo firm’s total to 180 MW Read More.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 6, 2016

Innovation is one of the core activities of the digital revolution and societal progress. Generally speaking, innovation is how to transform the novel idea to achieve its business value. Innovation at the digital age is coming at seemly a much faster pace, more change, and more potential disruption, with a broader scope, scale, and impact on the business’s surviving and thriving.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 5, 2016

Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): "Fed Tech Ticker". Obama's Executive Actions On Gun Control May Not Do Much. But He's Doing More. - Huffington Post. GM Invests $500M in Lyft for On-Demand Driverless Cars - Nextgov. Virtual Reality Operating Simulators: Gamification in Training Surgeons.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 4, 2016

Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): "Fed Tech Ticker". Noblis CEO Amr ElSawy to Keynote 2016 CES Government Conference. ED's Top Tech Director Steps Down To Head Home - T.H.E. Journal. India deserves better than Mark Zuckerberg's watered-down Internet - Washington Post.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 7, 2016

Provider to add fourth building on Santa Clara campus to capture demand in tight market Read More.

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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.