Sat.Jul 28, 2012 - Fri.Aug 03, 2012

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Fountainhead: Enablers for Transformed IT - Placing My Bets

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Enablers for Transformed IT - Placing My Bets. Its an odd time of the year to be making predictions. But recent conversations with start-ups, CEOs, CIOs and others have suggested areas in Enterprise IT that I bet will be "hot" over the near/medium term.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: BISNOW Data Center Event.

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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What A CIO Needs To Know About Creating A Twitter Strategy (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit One wrong Tweet and a CIO could be looking for a new job…. Is Twitter for real? I mean, is this going to be another one of those social media things that springs up, is hot-hot-hot for a bit, and then fads away and is forgotten? I don’t have a crystal ball and so I can’t tell you if Twitter has any staying power, but as a company’s CIO in addition to running the IT department you are going to have to help come up with the company’s Twitter strategy ….

Strategy 100
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Beware: A330 laptop power won’t power a laptop

Trends in the Living Networks

I went to Thailand this week to run a session on the future of business for a senior partner offsite of a global professional services firm. I have had a whole series of deadlines (fortunately easing a fraction now) so had to work the whole 8 1/2 hour flight to Bangkok. I was flying Qantas business class in an A330, so I plugged in my Dell XPS 15Z laptop and it appeared to be working.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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- CIO As City Cheerleader

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'(This post originally published July 8, 2012). Do City, County and State government CIOs have a responsibility to be “cheerleaders” for their jurisdictions for economic development of the community? I think so. We CIOs have talked about “aligning information technology with the business” of government and “customer service” to other departments.

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- FirstNet: Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'Friday, June 29th was the second and final day of the National Governors’ Association sponsored meeting of chief information officers (CIOs), statewide interoperability coordinators (SWICs) and other government officials from 49 states and territories. We’re discussing the States’ role in building the new Nationwide Public Safety wireless Broadband Network (NPSBN).

Network 28
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- 3 Minutes, 38 Seconds

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'Visionary. That word surely describes Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz. He’s not a “visionary” Chief with his head in the clouds, but, rather, a Chief who is actually making his vision a reality on the ground in his City today. I had the chance to hear part of that vision from Chief Schultz at the annual Integrated Justice Information Systems industry summit in Albuquerque on July 27th.