CTOvision

AUGUST 27, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. FedCyber is an annual cybersecurity event hosted by Matt Devost and Bob Gourley that brings together several hundred attendees to advance the dialogue on critical enterprise and federal government challenges. This event us unique in the DC ecosystem. We are focused on enabling people who make a difference in things cyber. We serve the community of practitioners who really get things done.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 27, 2014

'In the ultimate manifestation of the "server hugger" who wants to be close to their equipment, hobbyists and IT professionals have set up data centers in their home, creating server rooms in garages, basements and home offices. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 27, 2014

'CIOs need to prepare for the day that traditional IT comes to the end of the line Image Credit. The era of IT as we’ve come to know it is coming to an end. The IT department functions that have gotten us this far are now coming to an end. Keeping the company’s email systems up and running, implementing an big ERP project, and securing the corporate network from the bad guys is no longer what the company needs us to do for them.

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

'GovCloud Network is proud to announce that we have teamed with Tech Equity Ltd to deliver cloud education and training on a global basis. With this partnership, GovCloud Network will also add the Cloud Clinique Online Training and Cloud Computing Best Practices program to it''s list of services. CloudClinique is an online cloud certification platform that contains over 7,500 cloud best practice concepts across 18 separate domains.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2014

'By AdamElkus. Over at Wired , a headline blares “Artificial Intelligence Is Now Telling Doctors How To Treat You.” Sounds unique, novel, and even scary. Those AIs are replacing humans, to the point where even the detailed knowledge of the physician is superseded by a Dr. HAL! The article talks about Modernizing Medicine database and IBM’s Watson supercomputer.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 28, 2014

'The “software-defined” term, applied as a modifier to data center, networks or storage, is growing in popularity. Software-defined solutions, like virtualization did before them, can allow for a great deal of flexibility and efficiency of shared resources.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 28, 2014

'Without even debating, I again found myself on the losing end of an argument with VMware’s Martin Casado. In our first conversation over a year ago, he explained to me why network virtualization and specifically NSX, which hadn’t been released.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 26, 2014

'By Ron Kaese. Editor’s note: This looks like one of the most relevant data analytics events of the season. Hear real use cases from real professionals serving critical missions. – bg. Who : Who should attend? Company representatives that want to meet the NASA experts on Big Data should attend. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a secure facility so this is open to.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 26, 2014

'Columbus Business First has uncovered a massive Amazon project in Central Ohio. Amazon''s hosting subsidiary Vadata has filed for a tax credit in Central Ohio for a project estimated at $1.1 billion. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

'Instead of a VM host accessing its virtual disk (aka VMDK) which is stored in a VMFS formatted data store (part of ESXi hypervisor) built on top of a SCSI LUN (e.g. SAS, SATA, iSCSI, Fibre Channel aka FC, FCoE aka FC over Ethernet, IBA/SRP, etc) or an NFS file system presented by a storage system (or appliance), VVOL’s push more functionality and visibility down into the storage system.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2014

'This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, CA. (Well, it’s a “semi-liveblog”; I’ll post this immediately after the keynote session wraps up.) As in previous years, the keynote is being held in the massive space in Moscone North, and this year—like previous years—it looks like there is quite a crowd gathered here this morning.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 27, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Cloudera and Pentaho work well together and I’ve seen that first-hand in the marketplace. One very interesting way they are working together is through a deep integration of the two capabilities in ways that can deliver fast analysis to users. Pentaho can provide analytical tools that take advantage of the holdings and power of the enterprise data hub (EDH).

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 28, 2014

'Google makes a security audit and certification for its cloud publicly available for the first time. The giant is also testing a status page for its cloud. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

'Recently the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) made an announcement pertaining to the continued development and enhancements including FC-BB-6 that applies to both "classic" or "legacy" FC as well as the newer and emerging FCoE implementations. FCIA is not alone in the FCIA activity as they are as the name implies the industry consortium that works with the T11 standards folks.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2014

'VMware made what I felt are 3 major announcements at VMworld 2014 - EVO – Hyper-Converged It took 30 minutes for VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger to get to this announcement. He spent a lot of time prepping.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 26, 2014

'By AdamElkus. A recent BBC article asks the provocative question: can computers replace historian s? But here is the biggest claim so far – crunching through the big data of history can help us spot patterns and work out where the world is heading next. That is what Kalev Leetaru, a data scientist at Washington’s Georgetown University, believes may be possible.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 26, 2014

'VMware, Docker, Google and Pivotal team up to bring containers to the enterprise. The aim of the collaboration is to make it easy to use containers across a variety of infrastructure setups. Read More.

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A Screw's Loose

AUGUST 28, 2014

'I wrote earlier this week about Identity and Access Management (IAM) and how it’s important for Infosec (Information Security) to be involved with projects early. The post generated a few comments and some commentary on twitter, mostly from Infosec folks. Some complained I was too harsh on Infosec (I wasn’t) while others worried that I [.].

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 29, 2014

'One of the things that I haven’t seen highlighted as part of VMware’s EVO:Rail hyper-converged announcement is that EMC will be a hardware OEM partner. Just to spell this out, this means that EMC will make an appliance that will.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 26, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information ( see our recap here ).

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 28, 2014

'IO''s current data center project in Slough, England, will be its last company-built data center. The company will focus on partnerships with service providers for future expansion into new markets. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

'For those of you in VMware environments, now is the time to add VVOL to your vocabulary which might mean simply taking the time to read a piece like this, or digging deeper into the theories of operations, configuration, usage, hints and tips, tutorials along with vendor specific implementations.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 23, 2014

'As I’m on my 4 1/2 hour flight to San Francisco for VMworld 2014, I’m reflecting on what I expect to see at this years conference. Last year was my first VMworld and I made the rookie mistake of scheduling.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2014

'By Chip Childers. As enterprises work to rapidly embrace the mobile revolution, both for their workforce and to engage more deeply with their customers, the pressure is on for IT to support the tools needed by their application developers. Mobile application developers are working with a massive variety of technologies and platforms, but one trend that stands out is the rapid adoption of NoSQL database engines and the use of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platforms and services to run them.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 27, 2014

'Verizon is adding another 10.2 megawatts of solar energy. The $40 million investment follows an earlier clean energy investment of $100 million. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

'VVOL’s are accessed via the VMware software and associated API’s that are supported by various storage providers. VVOL’s are not LUN’s like regular block (e.g. DAS or SAN) storage that use SAS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, IBA/SRP, nor are they NAS volumes like NFS mount points. Likewise VVOL’s are not accessed using any of the various object storage access methods mentioned above (e.g.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2014

'One of the major announcements from VMworld 2014 is that VMware has fully entered the hyper-converged market. VMware and their OEM hardware partners have decided not to leave the high margins of hyper-converged to the handful of appliance vendors on.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 29, 2014

'The discipline of cyber threat intelligence focuses on providing actionable information on adversaries. This information is becoming increasingly important to enterprise cyber defense. This importance has resulted in investment and creation of many new/innovative sources of information on threat actors. This brings challenges of its own. How do you know which source to turn to for what reason?

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 27, 2014

'One in 3 companies have declared a disaster in the past five years, writes Ray Emirzian of docSTAR. So if you think it can’t happen to you, think again. Where would your business be without electricity? Read More.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 27, 2014

The design does need more recognition as thinking and problem-solving process. maybe even a strategic differentiator. Before it acquired a name, design thinking started as a rare activity that exceptional individuals did, it wasn't documented as a way of thinking, and it was completely mysterious to most others. Today, rather than being a mythological trend, the invention and popularization of the term "design thinking" reflect the emergence of an accessible thought framework, a holistic, flexib

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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.