CTOvision

DECEMBER 21, 2013

'By Bob Gourley If you are an analyst or executive or architect engaged in the analysis of big data, this is a “must attend” event. We will be there engaging with the community and hope to see you there. Registration is now open for the third annual Federal Big Data Apache Hadoop Forum! Register here. Join us on Thurs., Feb. 6, as leaders from government and industry convene to share Big Data best practices.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 26, 2013

'Cloud security is still a major concern for IT professionals. Bill Kleyman takes a deeper dive into some of the security concerns around cloud security in this interview with a professional white hat.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 26, 2013

'Thanks to everyone for making Social, Agile, and Transformation a part of your reading, tweeting, sharing, and commenting in 2013. Some of the top posts and themes of 2013 - Please Stop Creating Access Databases was the most read post and had several people commenting on their success and struggles using this database especially in the enterprise. I confess that I wrote the post out of.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 23, 2013

'This year I have not been able to publish many back-to-basics readings, so I will not close the year with a recap of those. Instead I have a video of a wonderful presentation by Butler Lampson where he talks about the learnings of the past decades that helped him to update his excellent 1983 " Hints for computer system design ". The presentation was part of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum helt in September of this year.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 27, 2013

'By Bob Gourley If you work in enterprise technology, earth science or national security affairs you will immediately get the significance of the video at this link and embedded below. Please just pause and watch and think about how your world is changing and what new use cases you will have for this. After the video we also provide more via a press release from Skybox Imaging.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 23, 2013

'Cloud computing is more than just a buzzword. It''s a mega-trend that has become an umbrella term for the ongoing shift from in-house data centers to third-party facilities. Here''s a look ahead at the trends that cloud thought leaders believe will be the most significant in 2014.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2013

'In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information tech

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 21, 2013

'By Bob Gourley SecureNinjaTV’s Alicia Webb continues coverage of FEDcyber 2013 speaking about Big Data and Hadoop with Cloudera’s Federal Sales Engineer Richard Im. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, process and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 24, 2013

'Big projects, big budgets, design innovation and repurposing the old economy''s infrastructure for the new economy were key themes during 2013. Here are the top 10 stories of 2013, ranked by page views.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2013

'In order to be a success, a CIO needs to be able to find and work with partners. These partners have to be committed to the same things that the CIO is: the overall success of his or her company and IT department. What You’ll Find Inside: 7 WRONG WAYS TO OUTSOURCE YOUR IT DEPARTMENT. WHY DON’T IT ALLIANCES WORK OUT? DEALING WITH VENDORS AFTER YOU’VE SIGNED THE DEAL. 6 TIPS FOR PICKING THE RIGHT CLOUD PROVIDER TO PARTNER WITH.

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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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A CIO's Voice

DECEMBER 21, 2013

'Dear Santa: . In 2013 we have seen improvement in the economy. Things are looking better. Hopefully the momentum will carry into 2014. I have tried to be really good by being the best CIO I can. So Santa, this year, I would like the following: ? Better analytics for our Big Data initiatives. There is so much information we don’t know where to begin. ?

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 23, 2013

'By Bob Gourley Thanks to Merchant Warehouse the below is a very polished update on the state of the payments industry: Analysis CTO'

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 23, 2013

'Microsoft is acquiring 200 more acres of land in Quincy, where the company already has a significant presence. The company is building out its cloud computing offerings on the Quincy campus. Deals Microsoft Quincy, Wash.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 22, 2013

'In this tips and tricks TechTalk I walk you through installing VMware’s OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) on your laptop. This is a tip of the cap to Kenneth Hui’s post over on cloudarchitectmusings.com. He wrote a pretty good step-by-step guide to deploying the VOVA on a laptop. Some notes: My system has 8GB of RAM and an i7 processor along with an SSD (13″ Macbook Pro w/ Retina).

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A CIO's Voice

DECEMBER 22, 2013

'I saw this commercial on TV and thought it was well done that speaks volumes about innovation and teamwork. I have been a Lego builder since I was 5. I felt that as toy it has the ability to be so much more and this commercial says that. Filed under: C-Level Executives , CIO , Laid Off , Leadership , Life and Technology Tagged: creativity , innovation , Lego , teamwork , toys.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2013

'Blog post: Small Medium Business (SMB) IT continues to gain respect, what about SOHO? Note that in Information Technology (IT) conversations there are multiple meanings for SMB including Server Message Block aka Microsoft Windows CIFS (Common Internet File System) along with its SAMBA implementation, however for this piece the context is Small Medium Business.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 27, 2013

'The interest in Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) hit a fever pitch in terms of customer interest during 2013. The coming year will see growing adoption of DCIM as the market begins to understand its true value.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2013

If culture is collective mindset; and then innovation is collective imagination, inquisitiveness, imagination, inquisitiveness, and inspiration. More often than not, innovation is a team work, not an individual effort, and the effective approach to foster innovation is through talent engagement and social collaboration. Collaboration does create a sense of belonging.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 26, 2013

'How do we craft a set of New Year’s resolutions for our data centers that will endure, and actually help to transform operations for the better? It’s actually getting easier, writes Aaron Rallo of TSO Logic.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 27, 2013

'2014 will be the year of the hybrid cloud solution. As these hybrid solutions gain momentum, they will fuel more widespread public cloud adoption in enterprise circles than we have ever seen before. When you think about it, this has actually been years in the making, writes Robert Jenkins of.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 24, 2013

'How do you optimize your environment for 2014? Given the continued focus on improving computer room cooling efficiency and that the typical data center today has cooling capacity that is nearly four times the IT load, data centers could reduce their operating expense by an average of $32,000.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 23, 2013

'For data centers, which rely on a steady and reliable stream of electricity, power interruption can be extremely costly and, in some cases, damaging to a facility’s reputation, writes Bhavesh Patel of ASCO.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 27, 2013

'Limelight sells its web content business to Upland Software, Zayo helps cloud provider Ajubeo expand its cloud hub expansion with fiber connectivity, and Fujitsu deploys DWDM gear to upgrade the JaKa2LaDeMa submarine cable system to 100 Gbps.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 27, 2013

'Chinese telecom China Unicom has launched a full-service cloud computing and big data brand called “Wo-Cloud” built on OpenStack open-source cloud software and delivered from data centers in Hohhot and Langfang.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2013

'Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays 2013 from Server and StorageIO Ok, nuff said for now (for now ;)… Cheers Gs Greg Schulz – Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) twitter @storageio All Comments, (C) and (TM) belong to […].

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Digital organization Enforces the Dot-Connecting Culture. Command-and-control came about through the Industrial Revolution with the perspective that everything, including organizations, can be viewed as mechanical in nature. In the "Birth of the Chaotic Age" with explosive information abundance, it makes a very strong case that command-and-control organizations are inherently incapable of handling, processing, managing the sheer volume of information we are faced with.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Modern organization has the transcendent business purpose and an innovation DNA. From a philosophical perspective, all things serve a purpose. We may not understand the purpose, but all things serve one. Modern organization has a transcendent business purpose. Humans demand to be served, so they create mechanistic and sociological systems to serve them.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 23, 2013

The Spirit of Organization Comes from the Top (Peter Drucker) The characteristics of a contemporary CIO are being innovative, proactive and progressive! Foremost the CIO needs to be a leader to form a team with right skills and lead IT by giving them space to outperform expectation. Be Proactive: The CIO needs to start thinking and acting like a member of the Board and to reshape IT to become an integral component of the business.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Innovation Process is the Bridge to Connect Art and Science. Because the organization is the primary context for innovation, innovation cannot be studied independently of the type of organization that generates or adopts it. Hence, in developing and testing theories of organizational innovation, it is necessary to incorporate a finer distinction between organizations that mainly generate and those that mainly adopt innovations.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2013

The Core of Digitalization is People and How to Build a Customer-Centric Organization. High mature digital organizations are being called “Digirati.”, as they have the high-level digital capability not only to build digital innovations but also to drive enterprise-wide transformation. And they benefit from their actions as Digirati have significantly higher financial performance than their less digitally mature competitors.

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