CTOvision

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. HP Enterprise Security Solutions to help 33 U.S. government agencies prevent network and system vulnerabilities. PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company a cybersecurity contract worth up to $32.4 million—the largest acquisition of software security assurance tools worldwide—under the DHS Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) government-wide Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'IBM has acquired Database as a Service (DBaaS) provider Cloudant. The acquisition benefits IBM across three important areas for Big Blue: Big Data and Analytics, Cloud Computing and Mobile.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'Sponsored by Dimension Data. I just finished reading through the Dimension Data Secure Enterprise Mobility Report.The report is a nice report on how modern organizations are thinking about and approaching strategic planning with mobility, BYOD and security in mind. A few highlights of the report where 1,622 IT decision makers were surveyed: 27% said they have a well-defined network policy for mobility. 23% said that they allowed employees to download non-corporate applications to increase produ

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'Too much data can cause serious compliance problems Image Credit. What kind of rules does your company operate under? Are there certain things that your employees (sales in particular) are not permitted to tell your customers? How can you determine if they are following the rules? How long do you have to retain your copies of all types of communication?

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: Gus is my friend and it is awesome watching his open sharing of ideas create value in the marketplace. The news in the press release below is good for us all. – bg. Former CIA CTO Gus Hunt Joins Venture Capital Firm Artis Ventures’ Board of Advisors. Hunt will assist in analyzing new enterprise investment opportunities and work with its portfolio companies, who’ll benefit from his unique experience.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'Can data centers tap unused server capacity to mine for Bitcoins? Online backup provider iDrive tested the concept, which reinforced the value of using custom hardware rather than quad-core servers - even if you''re using 600 of them.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'Last week I noticed this little gem over on ReadWriteWeb.com : Gartner highlights that only 8% of enterprises have actually deployed big data projects despite 64% declaring their intention to do so. That’s a big statistic. Think about it. Out of all the hype and discussions about big data, less than 10% of enterprises have actually deployed big data projects.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'By ChrisScott Plugfest is a new phenomenon in the national security technology community, where participants compete in judged evaluations showing how well (and fast) they can create trusted situational awareness in a chaotic/realistic scenario using off the shelf software and existing data sets/streams. Hands down, one of the coolest things I have seen in months was PLUGFEST 2014, held in conjunction with AFCEA West in San Diego 10-13 Feb 2014.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'A data scientist can generate a multitude of insightful analyses with enterprise technology solutions and challenging big data opportunities. But who will win the major awards at the Oscars? Farsite data scientists have the answers.

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A Screw's Loose

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'Nokia today introduced their X smartphone series, devices that are based on Google’s Android, or more specifically, the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). AOSP eschews all of Google’s basic services and provides the bare Android OS to the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) that then must layer a set of services on top of it so [.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

'What’s Your Story? Quote : Taking our corporate strategy, translating it into traceable, optimizable metrics, and using our data and models in a disciplined and iterative manner will allow us to be the best possible company we can be. IT Language Lessons « The Dark Side Geek. Quote : So what is the “common language”? The answer was already there.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Red Owl Analytics has been named the Most Innovative Company by an august panel of highly respected judges at the RSA conference this year. The following is from the RSA conference press release : Congratulations to Red Owl Analytics for being named the Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2014! We want to thank all of the finalists for participating and a special thank you to our panel of judges: Asheem Chandna, Partner, Greylock Partners.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'Many are turning to crowd-funding website Kickstarter to get projects up and running. One project from Rurban aims to create a data studio, a data center and tech hub for entrepreneurs in emerging communities.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. He made a comment I found to be pretty interesting. He mentioned how organizations are moving away from the private cloud as the mechanism for transformation and moving toward the software-defined data center (SDDC). This made me consider how is software-defined is different from private cloud.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'Welcome to part 10 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I will walk through adding an NSX service node to your NSX configuration. In the event you’ve joined this series mid-way, here’s what I’ve covered thus far: In part 1, I provided a high-level overview of NVP/NSX and its core components. In part 2, I showed you how to build NVP/NSX controllers and configure them into a controller cluster.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'With this post we are initiating formal coverage of ForgeRock, a firm we have written about in the past and have informally followed since their formation. ForgeRock creates and supports identity relationship management solutions for the modern web and for enterprises. They serve cloud environments as well as traditional infrastructure. Their open source foundation makes them incredibly interoperable so they work well with legacy IT as well as the most.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has gone online with its new European-style Internet exchange in northern Virginia. The exchange is a key beachhead for the Open-IX movement, and h may have strategic benefits for EvoSwitch and landlord COPT in Manassas.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'Some of you might be old school while others are may be new school or what ever is current trendy and cool. However new schoolers to become future or current schoolers can learn from the old schoolers.

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Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'I use FourSquare , not for the mayor-ships, or the points (although they are fun) but as a bit of history in my travels. It’s easier to check in somewhere, then write it down the location and map it later. My goal has always been to get some form of map with push pins in it. Sure FourSquare provides a bit of history, but the map is SUPER tiny, and very hard to use I’ve tried a bunch of solutions, usually provided by LifeHacker (one of my favourite websites), and they’ve all been just ok.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Note: this is from the official Boeing release at: [link] But I thought I should mention, these guys briefed me on this effort two years ago. This has been a long time in the making. – bg. Security, modularity and productivity delivered – all in one trusted mobile device. The U.S. defense and security communities demand trusted access to data to accomplish their missions.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'Facebook recently performed Proof of Concept with multiple DCIM vendors. While Facebook may have different criteria in how they approach DCIM than your organization, you may want to consider similar factors before deciding how to bring DCIM into your data center, writes Lara Greden of CA.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'Thus as this is a peoples choice process, I’m asking if you can take a few moments and cast your vote (thank you in advance) which I hope includes StorageIOblog.com as part of the top ten, in addition to being nominated in the Storage, Podcast and Independent blogger categories.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. He made a comment I found to be pretty interesting. He mentioned how organizations are moving away from the private cloud as the mechanism for transformation and moving toward the software-defined data center (SDDC). This made me consider how is software-defined is different from private cloud.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'Xplenty puts Big Data within reach for companies of all sizes. The innovative platform is an easy-to-use cloud service that takes the complexity out of Apache Hadoop, so you can get started right away. For more see the video at this link and embedded below: [link]. Even for companies that don’t have really “big” data – yet – Hadoop can be the right way to go if you want to future-proof your sy.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'Choosing a colocation provider can be challenging, especially with today''s multiple application demands and growing need for data protection. Find out the top considerations around choosing the right colocation partner.

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A Screw's Loose

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'Today, another EMM (Enterprise Mobility Management) vendor has given up the ghost. Not really, but as I predicted in the first post, more consolidation is on the way in the EMM sector. Good Technology, a long time rival to Blackberry and an EMM vendor in its own right, has announced that they will be acquiring [.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The strategy like GPS, Guild you through Change and Transformation Journey. The strategy is like GPS, it zooms in vision as a destination, leads the organization in the right direction, leverages resource, and executes effectively. The strategy is the business direction: If you have a very good idea of where you are going - what your systems will be like and how they will work - then it is much easier to choose quickly between immediate opportunities: pick the ones that take you in the right dir

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: We have watched Endgame since their founding and believe their make very positive contributions to the security ecosystem. It is great seeing two of our readers and friends on their advisory board. -bg. Arlington, VA – February 20, 2014 – Endgame, Inc., a leading venture-backed provider of security intelligence and analytics solutions that give enterprises real-time visibility and actionable insight across their digital domains, today announced the formation

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'IT infrastructure integrator Forsythe Technology is entering the data center development business. The company plans to build a 221,000 square foot facility in the suburban Chicago market in Elk Grove Village, Ill.

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A Screw's Loose

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'I had the great pleasure to have Javier Soltero, the CEO of Acompli, on the podcast tonight. They are a fairly new startup with an app coming out in the next few months that aims to fix the problem of email on a mobile device. What is so interesting about their approach as a company [.

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