CTOvision
JANUARY 2, 2014
'By Joey Echeverria. Editor’s note: The guest post below from Joey Echeverria first appeared on his Techno Babble blog. I would like to associate myself with his views and have reposted it here with his permission. – bg. Some people may find this an odd topic for the first post for what is ostensibly a technology blog, but they’re probably wrong.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 3, 2014
'What does the road ahead hold for cloud computing in 2014? More cloud sprawl, personal clouds, evolution of hybrid clouds and much more. Cloud columnist Bill Kleyman offers his thoughts on the year ahead.
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Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 31, 2013
'I’ve written many times about big data and the benefits and challenges that come along with attempting to ‘do’ big data. The one thing I haven’t said much of is how easy it is to ‘do’ big data. It really is fairly straightforward and inexpensive to get started in the big data realm. Before I go any further, let me make a clarification – if you are going to use large amounts of data across multiple locations and you’ll be doing large-scale analysis, you’ll most likely need top spend some m
The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 1, 2014
'Subscribe To The Accidental Successful CIO Newsletter! Yet another New Year is almost here! What is your plan for becoming a better CIO this year? Clearly you are already reading The Accidental Successful CIO blog and so that’s a step in the right direction! However, there’s one more thing that you need to do: subscribe to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter!
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.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 30, 2013
'By Bob Gourley For years computer scientists have talked about the very interesting challenge regarding the desire to be able to operate over encrypted data in an advanced way called Homomorphic Encryption. This is a field that gets nuanced fast, with terms like “partially homomorphic” relevant to many existing systems that are in place, but Fully Homomorphic thought by many to be so far away to be just a dream.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 31, 2013
'Endurance International Group brands BlueHost, HostMonster, HostGator, and JustHost are ending 2013 with a massive outage affecting customers worldwide.
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Scott Lowe
JANUARY 3, 2014
'For the last couple of years, I’ve been sharing my annual “projects list” and then grading myself on the progress (or lack thereof) on the projects at the end of the year. For example, I shared my 2012 project list in early January 2012, then gave myself grades on my progress in early January 2013. In this post, I’m going to grade myself on my 2013 project list.
Future of CIO
DECEMBER 31, 2013
The Age of Inquisitiveness Stimulates Imagination; Amplifies Influence and Accelerates Improvement. We are in a time of tremendous change, the dawn of digital age, the path to next level of innovation, also the era of confusion and information overload. Can we participate peacefully, look forward optimistically and engage constructively for mutual benefit?
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 31, 2013
'After beginning its international data center footprint expansion in Lulea, Sweden, Facebook (FB) is rumored to be considering an Asian presence in South Korea, to support a growing user base in the region.
Virtualized Greek
JANUARY 2, 2014
'I don’t believe Cisco will miss their release date for their SDN product ACI, but that doesn’t mean it’s not vaporware. This is a follow-on discussion to my post asking the question if ACI is Vaporware or not. [link].
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Chief Seattle Greek Blog
DECEMBER 30, 2013
'The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Click here to see the complete report.
Future of CIO
DECEMBER 29, 2013
An innovation strategy is a subcomponent of business strategy. A good innovation strategy, either as a key ingredient of corporate strategy, or a separate subcomponent of strategy, is an inspiring mental model shared by the key stakeholders of a firm. It sets the direction and defines the broad boundaries of the creative space, within which these stakeholders can be inspired to generate new ideas and implement them to create new products, processes, and business models.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 30, 2013
'The changes we’re due to see in 2014 start with the way people think. A good bit of the change going on in IT is about the maturity of its business leaders and their business planning skills associated with all of those changes, writes Mark Harris of Nylte. He outlines a number of changes coming in.
Virtualized Greek
JANUARY 2, 2014
'2014 is going to be my year of excellence or at least the year I focus on it. One of the things I’ve struggled with over the years is being a “detailed focused” person. I’m very good at taking very big problems, digesting them and coming up with creative solutions. I’m not good at taking a bunch of “small” tasks and completing each and everyone correctly.
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Nutanix
DECEMBER 28, 2013
There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.
Future of CIO
JANUARY 3, 2014
The High Business Performance Comes through Good Governance Behavior, not Structure Only. Based on Wikipedia, “Corporate governance refers to the system by which corporations are directed and controlled. …Governance provides the structure through which corporations set and pursue their objectives while reflecting the context of the social, regulatory and market environment.”.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 3, 2014
'While Dropbox is great for collaboration, it does have security risks. Rather than replacing Dropbox, another layer of security can be added that would enable organizations to control which files are uploaded to Dropbox, and who has authority to share these files, writes Ronen Kenig of Safe-T.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 30, 2013
'Data center connectivity is becoming a key differentiator as wholesale data center providers compete for customers with colocation companies.
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Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 2, 2014
'Server Farm Realty has made another big move in the Chicagoland market, opening up a facility Oak Brook. This is the company''s second facility in the Chicago market.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 2, 2014
'If you adopt a service-oriented management focus, the goal of both management efforts is the same — to enable the optimal delivery of a service to the end user. That said, the IT and facilities management worlds should not need to operate in parallel. Instead, they need to operate as one, in a.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 2, 2014
'Open-IX is now accepting applications for North American Data Center and Internet Exchange Point (IXP) Certifications. Open-IX continues to have healthy momentum.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 31, 2013
'The case for implementing fuel cells in data center applications has risen in recent years - showcasing the desire to use green energy, as well as reduce reliance on expensive ''just in case'' power equipment. Looking to transform power generation with innovative solutions, Oregon-based ClearEdge.
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Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 2, 2014
'QTS Realty and CyrusOne were the top performers among publicly-held data center companies for 2013 after going public earlier in the year. But they were the best of a weak bunch. The sector trailed the broader market, as investors cooled on data center stocks amid growing cloud competition and.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 2, 2014
'PTC announced it has acquired ThingWorx, creators of a platform for building and running applications for the Internet of Things (IoT), for approximately $112 million, plus a possible earn-out of up to $18 million.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 3, 2014
'T5 Data Centers plans to expand into the Northeast in 2014, according to President and CEO Pete Marin, who shared his outlook on the company and the industry in a year-end blog post.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 3, 2014
'Happy New Year! It''s the first Friday of 2014, and that means it''s time for some fun before we get the weekend rolling. This week: Robots in the data center!
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Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 30, 2013
'Seagate (STX) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire hard drive test equipment maker Xyratex for approximately $374 million.
Data Center Knowledge
JANUARY 3, 2014
'In this week''s Best of the Blogs, posts from Telecom Ramblings, SunGard Availability, Equinix and Cisco Systems.
Future of CIO
JANUARY 3, 2014
Being a Smart Business goes beyond just Playing Analytics Tools Only! Information is the lifeblood of the digital business; more and more organizations are declaring they are in an information and technology business, more & more organizations have ‘digital ambition’ to become a customer-centric business, ecologic business and intelligent business.
Future of CIO
JANUARY 3, 2014
IT is the nervous system of the enterprise body. Although more often than not, technology is the frequent disruptive force in the digital era, the majority of IT organizations are indeed still running at industrial speed, lack of reputation as an innovation engine. The hot debate in IT community is thought-provoking: "Why is IT mostly the weakest link and at times not getting enough respect despite all good work and huge efforts were undertaken?
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.
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