CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2015

I think it is safe to say that many people would like to have a C3PO in their lives, I know I would. Today, not in a time long ago, there is a robot called Olly. Emotech, a London-based startup, is behind the creation of Olly, a voice-controlled robot assistant, kind of like Amazon Echo, but this one emulates a human personality. . The idea behind Olly is that it will be doing some auto piloting of individual's lifestyle needs, as it gets to know it's user better and their habits.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The data center managers who will come out ahead in 2016 are those who can keep their fingers on operations by utilizing software platforms to ensure high availability and resource utilization while forging ahead with new technologies. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 13, 2015

If it is digital transformation you are seeking, you're probably not going to see the results in the quarter after you complete your first major milestone. Digital, technology organizations have adapted to agile practices in order to make incremental improvements to the products and processes they support. Product managers have adapted to release Minimally Viable Products and capture customer.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The world of business is software. No matter the industry vertical or business model, effective software is the key to business success. An even more important aspect of this reality is the application programming interface (API). If you are unfamiliar with this kind of geeky term, APIs are the glue that connects applications to each other and manages the virtual discussions between you and your customers.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This is the second post in this series. For the first see: Going 100% SaaS. As I mentioned before, SAAS is not just a software product, but also a service. In addition, due to the fact that the product is constantly enhanced and upgraded, it requires more active management than a traditional COTS product. I have found that SAAS implementations are most successful when the business function and IT teams work together to select, deploy and operate SAAS products.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 15, 2015

As more businesses evolve operations to be digital-first, marketing and IT departments often approach the transition from different, yet relevant, points of view that can cause tension. Read More.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #58. This will be the last Technology Short Take of 2015, as next week is Christmas and the following week is the New Year’s holiday. Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 14, 2015

There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the Internet of Things. Today's Internet connects people, governments, academia and business.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 16, 2015

As you move your organization closer to the cloud you'll experience even greater levels of virtualization and data abstraction Read More.

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Lundberg Media

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For the past two years, I’ve conducted a half dozen or so major research projects on digital business. At the outset, I looked for a definition that we could present to participating executives that would ground the research in something tangible. There wasn’t much out there. Even MIT's Center for Digital Business hadn't pinned this down. So we created our own definition as “the transformation of business models, products and/or operations from the use of information and communications technolog

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Open Source

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This post describes a method for using cloud-init to register a cloud instance into Consul on provisioning. I tested this on OpenStack , but it should work on any cloud platform that supports metadata services that can be leveraged by cloud-init. I worked out the details for this method because I was interested in using Consul as a means to provide a form of “dynamic DNS” for OpenStack instances.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2015

DHS issues a national terrorism advisory system bulletin on 16 Dec 2015 advising all that: We are in a new phase in the global threat environment, which has implications on the homeland. Particularly with the rise in use by terrorist groups of the Internet to inspire and recruit, we are concerned about the “self-radicalized” actor(s) who could strike with little or no notice.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The modern network has come a long way. But what are the use cases for SDN and VNF? And how are they different? Read More.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2015

In business, complexity both drives innovation and also hinders it. People are complex, business is complex, and the world is complex, and they are becoming more complex due to the explosive information and the accelerated speed of changes. Modern organizations spend significant time and resources to deal with complexity, is complexity good or bad; the complex organizational structure/process or the hyper-complex business ecosystem, which factors contribute the most to making organizations more

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Project Management

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In this post I’d like to discuss a potential (minor) issue with modifying OpenStack security groups with Terraform. I call this a “potential minor” issue because there is an easy workaround, which I’ll detail in this post. I wanted to bring it to my readers’ attention, though, because as of this blog post this matter had not yet been documented. As you probably already know if you read my recent introduction to Terraform blog post , Terraform is a way to create configurations that automate the c

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): "Fed Tech Ticker". Battelle Names Suzanne Vautrinot, Kirkland Donald to Board; Jeff Wadsworth Comments. The Life-Saving Train Technology That Congress Isn't Fully Funding - The Atlantic. Battelle pleased with PNNL federal grade - Tri-City Herald.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 16, 2015

State legislature passes data center tax breaks, Vegas firm greenlights Steelcase Pyramid build Read More.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Digital IT means more about speed, agility, and flexibility. Many IT organizations are on the way for radical digital transformation, to change their reputation from a cost center to a value creator; from a back-office support function to a relentless innovation engine; from the process "glue" to the capability builder, and from a reactive mode to a proactive and continuous delivery mode.

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Phillip Beal recently sat down with us to discuss IFC’s transition from on-premises IT to a managed service from Nutanix partner, Advantage Technology Solutions.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): "Fed Tech Ticker". FITARA: Progress at the 1-Year Mark // December 16, 2015 - Nextgov. Going 100% SaaS: Deploying and Operating. Congress grants the National Labs a FITARA exemption in omnibus - FCW.com. Info-sharing bill's advance is a landmark for DHS - FCW.com.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Company leases wholesale space in Singapore, a key regional interconnection hub Read More.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Digital is the Era of Change! The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.2 million page views with 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. And CHANGE is the main theme in such brainstorming.

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 15, 2015

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

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 17, 2015

We are very proud to announce that CTOvision has just been named to BizTech Magazine 's list of the 50 Must-Read IT Blogs. In their words: For the past four years, BizTech has recognized the best and brightest IT blogs in business and we're proud to present this year's list of 50 Must-Read IT Blogs. With the help of our readers during the nominations round and through some good old fashioned sleuthing on the Internet, we believe we've pulled together an all-star list of blogs.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Next year will see major capabilities for seamless Azure experience between on-prem and public cloud Read More.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2015

IT more often needs to play a pivotal role in discovering the path to strategy implementation. Digital transformation represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interact with its ecosystem, with the customer at the center of its focus. IT is in a unique position to look at the business at a profound level - the business information and processes, can IT be running as an innovation pathfinder for an organization’s digital transformation?

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 15, 2015

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

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): "Fed Tech Ticker". New drone for Christmas? You must register before flying — FAA - FedScoop. Federal Aviation Administration to require most small drones to be registered. - abc7news.com. Seattle Will Allow Uber and Lyft Drivers to Form Unions - New York Times.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 18, 2015

IT giant to acquire equipment and access to AT&T data centers Read More.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 15, 2015

The negative reactions to the problems come from a state of distrust, disengagement, and dis-empowerment. Businesses "fail" for a multitude of reasons including economic conditions, vendor management, performance or production, industry regulations, expansion costs, and the list goes on. Look at the primary causes behind the fall of the business, from an internal management perspective, which failures are you talking about?

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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.