CTOvision

MARCH 18, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. I was recently speaking with a friend who formed a business. His background is perfect for what he is doing, his ideas are solid, his product addresses a pain point in most modern enterprises. And he has the stamina and work ethic of a champion. But still there is no certainty in his future. Even hard working, rightly focused CEOs like this one need every advantage they can get.

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CIO Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

'One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Sauron, Mordor, Middle Earth. Wait a minute. Smart Rings? Yep, thats right. The social and technology direction towards clunky and fashion challenged "wearable" technology has migrated 6 inches from the new smart watch on your wrist, to your middle finger.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 20, 2014

'The Green Grid has finally reached consensus on a metric more than five years in the making: Data Center Energy Productivity, or DCeP, is computed as useful work produced divided by total energy consumed by the data center. DCeP allows each user to define useful work as applicable to the user’s.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 20, 2014

'When I saw this hanging in my daughter''s classroom I knew it needed to be shared with Scrum Masters and other agile team members. So much what makes agile teams successful is dependent on their collaboration - establishing a shared understanding of priorities, solving problems, developing solutions, resolving blocks, and improving practices. A big part of this collaboration occurs in both.

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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

MARCH 19, 2014

'DISA released the information below as an update on milCloud, an integrated suite of capabilities designed to drive agility into the development, deployment and maintenance of DoD applications. I have no insider information on this activity, but reading between the lines leads me to conclude there are two key risks to this program. My sense is that due to the need to build in enhanced security (which is critically important to DoD missions) significant eng.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 19, 2014

'CIOs need to avoid making these hiring mistakes Image Credit. When a CIO makes a hiring decision for the IT department, it can have a long lasting impact on the department. Despite the importance of information technology, the people who work in your IT department are even more important. This means that the person in the CIO job wants to take his or her time when considering candidates and not make a foolish blunder.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 18, 2014

'Last week, I wrote a post titled Big Data Starts with Data Management. In that post, I wrote: Starting with data management will help mitigate these risks since a good data management approach allows organizations to keep data quality in mind from the beginning of a big data project. Data management is a key aspect of big data projects. There’s no doubt about that.

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CTOvision

MARCH 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Loren Siebert is someone I really admire. He is known for delivering real world solutions that work in enterprises, and he has a track record of doing that in ways that help everyone around him. He never crows about this so I’ll do some of that here: I credit him with the hard work and teamwork-building/mission-focused actions that led to some of the most virtuous improvements in citizen service in a decade.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 17, 2014

'It’s not enough to just give a speech, you have to command the room. Image Credit. One of the joys (?) of being the person with the CIO job is that you often get asked to make speeches where you can talk about the importance of information technology. Everyone thinks that you know what is going to happen in the future and they are hoping that if they can get you to deliver a speech, you just might let a hint of the future slip out.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 17, 2014

'Equinix plans to build a massive data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia, not far from its existing interconnection hub in the heart of northern Virginia''s "Data Center Alley." The company has submitted plans to build a gargantuan development with more than 1.16 million square feet of space.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 16, 2014

'6 IT Strategies to Stay Ahead of Data Center Trends – CIO.com. Quote : Automation, virtualization, cloud computing — these technology trends are transforming the data center and enabling companies to lower costs, increase flexibility and improve reliability. However, these shifts require IT, and their outsourcing providers, to rethink traditional strategies.

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CTOvision

MARCH 21, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Security is a hot topic. Achieving more, efficiently, with enterprise data is a hot topic. So optimizing Apache Hadoop to contribute to enterprise security missions is an incredibly hot topic. The security and audit of Hadoop itself is also of critical importance. These related themes are the topics of the next three Cloudera breakfast sessions in DC.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 17, 2014

'Congratulations to my NCOIC colleague and dear friend Melvin Greer on his impressive WashingtonExec interview. A senior fellow and chief strategist at Lockheed Martin, Mel has more than 29 years’ experience in systems and software engineering and is a recognized expert in Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud Computing and Predictive Analytics. His research fields include Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology and Gamification.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 18, 2014

'Servergy recently released its first Cleantech server, a "brawny core" server about the size of a legal pad. But Servergy''s ambitions go beyond just rethinking the form factor and power envelope for servers.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2014

'Some time ago, I introduced you to the idea of Linux network namespaces, and provided an overview of some of the commands needed to interact with network namespaces. In this post, I’ll follow up on that post with some additional information on using network namespaces with other types of network interfaces. In the previous network namespaces article , I mentioned (incorrectly, it turns out) that you had to use virtual Ethernet (veth) interfaces in order to connect a namespace to the physi

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CTOvision

MARCH 18, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. I just read a review of a a 13 March session of the Association for Federal Information Resources Management (see AFFIRM ). AFFIRM is a non-profit collective seeking to improve the management of information and related systems in the federal government. Lord knows we need AFFIRM now! The panel of 13 March was part of their monthly speaker series and included.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 16, 2014

'A few months back I was looking for a simple easy to use yet robust tool for accessing and managing my VMware environment from my iPhone. The reason being is that I don’t always like to carry a laptop or tablet around, not to mention neither fits in a pocket very well. Needless to say there are many options for accessing VMware products and implementations that run on tablets including iPads as well as laptops among others.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 18, 2014

'If you''re working with big data, it''s time to look at some powerful, cloud-ready, open-source technologies. Bill Kleyman looks at eight technology projects that can help make sense of the explosion of data.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2014

'In this post, I’m going to talk about a way to modify QCOW2-based images without having to boot up a full-blown virtual machine based on the image. I found this process while trying to change the behavior of cloud-init on the official Ubuntu cloud images from Canonical. While I had successfully built my own Ubuntu 12.04 LTS image for my OpenStack -based home lab (and it worked just fine), I was keen to use Canonical’s official cloud images as they were much smaller (around 250MB ver

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CTOvision

MARCH 17, 2014

'With this post we are initiating coverage of Actian, providers of an analytics platform designed to enable positive disruption of enterprise analytics environments. Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to transact, analyze, and take automated action across their business operations.

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A Screw's Loose

MARCH 18, 2014

'My daughter broke her arm a little over a week ago. She was playing soccer over 2 and half hours away and her mom took her to the games (she had two). Apparently, right before half time she was fouled by someone on the other team and ended up falling and hearing a crack. My [.].

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 21, 2014

'Yahoo! and SynapSense have partnered to optimize cooling in Yahoo''s Quincy data center. The project is expected to save Yahoo 4.6 million kilowatt hours of energy annually.

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Sean Daniel

MARCH 20, 2014

'Maybe I’m weird, or maybe my job has more requirements than others, but I use Google Chrome , and Microsoft Internet Explorer interchangeably. I know web developers have this problem, perhaps they’ve already worked out a work flow, but I wasn’t able to find one. Ultimately for things that are work related, I want to open those in Internet Explorer, and personal browsing, I want to use Google Chrome.

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CTOvision

MARCH 17, 2014

'By AdamElkus. By now, readers will likely have caught themselves up with the twists and turns of Newsweek ‘s apparently ill-fated hunt for the real Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudoanonymous brain behind bitcoin. I point readers to financial analyst Felix Salmon’s blog on the subject for a good overview of the tortured investigation process and its various ambiguities: One way to look at this problem is to try to calculate probabilities, and do some kind of Bayesian analysis of the quest

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Future of CIO

MARCH 16, 2014

More often, the linkages between customer-centric capability and sustained business performance aren't understood by enough business leaders. Making the business case for customer experience is as we all know not so easy. Building customer centricity consistently in a way that delivers the right experiences to the right customers at the right times is, in most companies, enormously complicated.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 21, 2014

'Your cloud is expanding. You have more users on your platform and have a lot more apps and workloads. Let’s take a look at a few cloud monitoring tools and management solutions which are designed to help create a more proactive cloud.

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CTOvision

MARCH 17, 2014

'With this post we are initiating coverage of zSpace, an incredible capability delivering new ways to collaborate, learn, design and create through immersive exploration. We see great potential for this firm in enterprise IT including workforce training and education, product marketing/sales, product design and executive level decision support. An overview of zSpace is available in the video at this link and embedded below: [link].

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CTOvision

MARCH 20, 2014

'By Natalie Lehrer. Editor’s note: PowerShell is an object-oriented programming language and interactive command line for Microsoft Windows. It is designed with automation in mind, and remains an important element in managing and configuring Windows Azure. In this post, Natalie Lehrer provides insights into using PowerShell Cmdlets for Windows Azure AD.- bg.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 19, 2014

'Data center provider Ascent is launching a colocation operation out of one of its data centers near Chicago. The move reflects a growing trend of the lines blurring between wholesale and retail colocation.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 19, 2014

'It’s time to give up on incrementally improving a broken backup system, and instead move forward toward a new model for data protection. The cloud holds much more potential than a cheap dumping ground for backup and archive data, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni.

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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.