Sat.Sep 20, 2014 - Fri.Sep 26, 2014

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Applying the Laws of Science to the Internet of Things and Healthcare IT

CTOvision

'Today, “Internet of Things” (IoT) is shouted at every corner, both in the business and private spheres. Even though this notion is going viral and touches upon all sectors of our lives, it actually has no clear definition. In order not to get biased or limited in its interpretation and thus, strategize properly, I will try to establish a comprehensive insight into both what IoT is, and what it is not.

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Evangelism is NOT Sales

SPF13

'I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is trying to better understand the role technical evangelism could play within his company. Ten minutes into our conversation he said, “so evangelism is pretty much rogue sales” Internally I cringed. I politely corrected him that the two could not be further apart.

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Report: Google to Build 120 MW Data Center in Netherlands

Data Center Knowledge

'Google has operated a TCN-owned data center in Eemshaven for the past eight years and is now planning on building its own Read More.

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Five Data Management Practices IT Needs to Better Support Data Driven Organizations

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Last week, I posted 5 Agile Leadership Practices Where CIO Can Help Data Scientists to provide solutions to messy data, data landfills, data silos, and other outdated data practices that lead to data issues. That post covered cultural practices and organizational principles that make agile teams and organizations successful and how to transfer them to a data science or analytics practice.

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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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Greater Smartphone Protections are Forthcoming

CTOvision

'While Apple has made many headlines this month for the release of its new generation of the iPhone, this week the company has caused quite a stir with its latest announcement regarding its desire to enhance the encryption that protects its smartphones. In its press release , Apple asserts that it has never collaborated with a government agency from any country to create a backdoor in its products to behoove governmental surveillance.

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5 Ways CIOs Can Make Innovation Happen In Their IT Departments

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Innovation will only happen if the CIO knows how to grow it Image Credit. “More innovation, please!” This is what CIOs have been hearing on a daily basis for the past few years. I think that we all understand why we’re being asked to help out, everyone understands the importance of information technology and they believe that this is where the innovation that will help the company out will come from.

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"Connect 2 Connect" on Cloud Computing in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania

Cloud Musings

'GovCloud Network is proud to be partnering with TechEquity and Extensia in presenting: This event is a partnership with the Ministry of Communications Science and Technology and the Tanzania National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) and is being held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 30th September to 1st October 2014. A key component of this event will be a series of ‘Advisory Clinics’ that will run throughout the summit.

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FedCyber is Coming: 5 Nov in Tysons Corner

CTOvision

'FedCyber is an annual cybersecurity event hosted by Matt Devost & Bob Gourley that brings together several hundred attendees to advance the dialogue on critical enterprise and federal government challenges. FedCyber will be held on 5 Nov 2014 at the Tysons Corner Marriott. This is a great opportunity to work directly with peers in the federal technology ecosystem to enhance the cyber security of your organization and to share lessons learned.

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Evangelism is NOT Sales

SPF13

I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is trying to better understand the role technical evangelism could play within his company. Ten minutes into our conversation he said, “so evangelism is pretty much rogue sales” Internally I cringed. I politely corrected him that the two could not be further apart.

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Ericsson Buys Majority Stake in Ex-VMware CTO’s Startup Apcera

Data Center Knowledge

'Derek Collison''s startup ships Continuum, an enterprise application platform built to accelerate deployment without sacrificing security and policy compliance Read More.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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AWS Pop-up Loft 2.0: Returning to San Francisco on October 1st

All Things Distributed

'It’s an exciting time in San Francisco as the return of the. AWS Loft. is fast approaching. We’ve been working round-the-clock, making updates to ensure the experience is more fulfilling and educational than in June. Today we’re excited to announce that…. On Wednesday, October 1 st , we’ll be returning to 925 Market Street! The AWS Loft is all about helping you scale and grow your business by offering free AWS technical resources.

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2014 Analyst Forum: Insights for Law Enforcement from Dr. McCue  

CTOvision

'On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information.

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Why I quit my job before having a new one

Virtualized Greek

'I did something last week I would never recommend someone else does; I quit my job without having another one lined up. I don’t mean I quit a job where the company is unethical, and I had a moral obligation.

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Understanding the Cost of Delivering a Service

Data Center Knowledge

'Organizations of all sizes and at all levels must understand the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of their IT estate in order to understand the real costs of delivering a service, writes Zahl Limbuwala of Romonet. Read More.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Docker for Smarties (e.g. non-dummies) from VMworld 2014

Storage IO Blog

'Docker is a new way of abstracting applications and the data infrastructures (servers, storage, networking, hardware) they run on using containers. Check out this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective video podcast to get an overview of docker including hearing from a docker.com systems engineer from VMworld 2014.

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Finding And Winning The Right Opportunities in DoD

CTOvision

'As I walk around the exhibit halls of DoD Conferences, I try to stop at every booth, no matter how briefly. In the short time I am there, I want to understand what that company does and how they think their capability can support DoD. I am always surprised by how much talent is out there, and often dismayed at how ignorant some of these companies are about how to enter the DoD market space.

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Closing Comments on Old Posts

Scott Lowe

'One of the great things about this site is the interaction I enjoy with readers. It’s always great to get comments from readers about how an article was informative, answered a question, or helped solve a problem. Knowing that what I’ve written here is helpful to others is a very large part of why I’ve been writing here for over 9 years.

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As US Government Agencies Continue Cloud Push, Revenue Opportunity for Service Providers Grows

Data Center Knowledge

'On Tuesday the Department of Defense (DoD) acting CIO Terry Halvorsen announced it will perform a database consolidation that could lead to a $10 to $20 billion dollar savings Read More.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Seagate has shipped over 10 Million storage HHDD’s, is that a lot?

Storage IO Blog

'These HHDDs or SSHDs are self-contained in that the flash are built-in to the actual drive as part of its internal electronics circuit board (controller). This means that the drives should be transparent to the operating systems or hypervisors on servers or storage controllers without need for special adapters, controller cards or drivers. In addition, there is no extra software needed to automated tiering or movement between the flash on the HHDD or SSHD and its internal HDD, its all self-cont

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WoRDS Center Workflow Hackathon 4 Nov in San Diego

CTOvision

'Registration : $395. An educational discounted rate is available to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and university staff for $250. Enter educational discount code “EDU” along with your academic organization, title and email when registering.) Register at: https://www.regonline.com/WorDSCWH. Location : SDSC ( Directions ). Do you have MATLAB, R, Python, KNIME, Galaxy and other scripts you are trying to integrate?

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How to Structure a Business-Friendly IT Organization

Future of CIO

IT must be more business-friendly. Start with the structure. Due to the changing nature of technology, IT organization also has to continue to re-imagine, reinvent and reshuffle itself to adapt to the changes. But the goal for changes or IT transformation is ultimately for achieving business goals. So the point is what are the fair reasons to do IT reorganization and how to structure a business-friendly IT organization?

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RagingWire Lights Up Final Phase of Ashburn Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'One third of the new phase has been leased by unnamed client, bulk of preceding phases is sold out, illustrating N. Virginia''s thirst for data center space Read More.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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SNIA announces Cloud Data Management Initiative (CDMI) V1.1

Storage IO Blog

'In case you missed it, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) recently released their version 1.1 of its Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) specification.

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Scalable Bioinformatics Boot Camp 2-3 Oct San Diego

CTOvision

'If you are ready to enhance your skills with distributed platforms, scalable workflow tools and big data science please check out the info below from the Workflows for Data Science (WorDS) Center of Excellence , SDSC and National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) : Scalable Bioinformatics Boot Camp. Tools and Techniques for Bioinformatics, Biomedical Analysis, and Computational Biology.

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The CIO as a Digital Orchestra Conductor?

Future of CIO

" I want all the musicians to listen to the sound of the whole orchestra as they are playing their instrument. " - Claudio Abbado -o ne of the greatest conductors of the 20th century It was possibly Peter Drucker who first said a manager's role was that of a "Symphony Orchestra Conductor." In this highly complex and competitive digital dynamic business environment, this description fits in today for any business leader or a manager in an operational or even functional role in any successful orga

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Broadcom Intros StrataXGS Tomahawk Switches for Scale-Out Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Switch employs 25G Ethernet, a standard developed by Broadcom, along with Google, Microsoft, Mellanox and Arista Read More.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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CompTIA needs input for their Storage+ certification, can you help?

Storage IO Blog

'CompTIA needs input for their Storage+ certification, can you help? The CompTIA folks are looking for some comments and feedback from those who are involved with data storage in various ways as part of planning for their upcoming enhancements to the Storage+ certification testing. As a point of disclosure, I am member of the CompTIA […].

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Context on Forced Joint Unity and DoD and Impact on Military C2 Constructs

CTOvision

'Today we don’t fight solo – we fight as Coalitions. Unilateral US military actions are rare, and getting rarer. As US DoD budgets continue to shrink, we encourage our coalition partners to pick up the slack. That may help but only so much. This past summer we saw an outstanding example of Maritime Partnerships. RIMPAC 2014 involved twenty-two Nations (including China!

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FirstNet’s Scandal and Resurrection

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'McClatchy Newspaper’s Greg Gordon just wrote a well-researched investigative article about procurement problems with the nation’s First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet). The details in the article correspond almost exactly with my mostly second-hand knowledge of the situation. But I am hoping FirstNet and the nation can, with help, put this episode behind us and proceed to actually building a nationwide wireless broadband network for our brave responders who protect the safety of 320 m

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Web caching: Facebook’s Problem of a Thousand Servers

Data Center Knowledge

'Company open sources another tool that makes the site fast and resilient Read More.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.