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Congress Impressed by Mobile Medical Apps - CTOvision

CTOvision

'As more mobile medical apps are developed, they are finding their way into our government. Recently, the House of Representative's Small Business Committee's Subcommittee on Health and Technology held a hearing.

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Big Data Means Big Headaches For CIOs

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Too much data is enough to make any CIO’s head hurt. Image Credit. One of the things that makes having the CIO job different today from how it was in the past, besides the growing awareness of the importance of information technology, is the arrival of so-called “big data” We’re talking about terabytes or even petabytes of data and all of the headaches that come along with it.

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Why We Should All Learn to Code

The Investing Edge

'For years the tech community has been concerned about worker shortages , especially programmers and engineers. Fast-growing software companies always bemoan the challenges of finding skilled workers, and have tried to fill the gap by recruiting from abroad, and even by offering significant signing bonuses (see Hubspot’s $30,000 offer for someone who refers a developer).

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Mick's IT Blogs: Apply all Microsoft Office Updates within a folder

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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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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SDN and NFV: Survey of Articles Comparing and Contrasting.

CTOvision

'This blog provides a brief survey of these articles comparing and contrasting SDN and NFV, including a synopsis and rating for each.

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All you need to know about SDN in 14 Minutes

Virtualized Greek

'Everything you need to know about the basics of SDN in (the first) 14 Minutes of this video from Scott Shenker of Berkley. Scott delivers a brilliant talk at Stanford on SDN and why Network Virtualization is the killer app. This is a must watch video for learning the basics and beyond of SDN. Thanks to Lennie for finding this gem for me. Related Posts.

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Traveling (Part 1) - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Traveling (Part 1). by Brian Katz on June 24, 2013 · 0 comments. It’s been a long month for me. This has been my 4 th week traveling in a row with very brief stops at home to see the family. Needless to say, my blogging has suffered the most. So rather than trying to write a grand blog I thought I would put together some notes about traveling, leaving some of the other blog ideas I have floating in my head for another day.

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Instagram Video, The New Vine? - CTOvision

CTOvision

'instaface-facebook-instagram Instagram, the popular photo sharing application which was recently acquired by Facebook, has released a new software update that enables the recording and sharing of 15 second long videos.

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Top Ten Characteristics in "Ultra-Leadership"

Future of CIO

“ Wisdom begins in wonder. ” Socrates At the age of digitalization and knowledge economy, the business environment is much more dynamic and connected; things are moving or have moved from a "decisive and authoritative", “command & control” leadership style/engagement to a "participative, collaborative, social" leadership style/engagement. Thus, leaders and managers need to cultivate the new mindset/ skillset to make this paradigm shift smoothly.

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June 2013 Server and StorageIO Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

'June 2013 News letter Welcome to the June 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. In this edition coverage includes data center infrastructure management (DCIM), metrics that matter, industry trends, IBM buying Softlayer for Cloud, IaaS and managed services. Other items include backup and data protection topics for SMBs, as well as big data storage topics. [.].

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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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Traveling (Part 2) - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Traveling (Part 2). by Brian Katz on June 26, 2013 · 1 comment. So my last post was more about prepping for travel and the basics. SO you have a good idea of how I prep and what I choose to take. The next step is what do I actually do when I am on the road. Just as prep is important, you need to pay attention and use some common sense when you are on the road to make your life a little bit easier.

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20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big and Important

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, June 25, 2013. 20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big and Important.

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CIO as Chief Improvement Officer

Future of CIO

"Continual improvement" is IT mantra in digital era. The “I” in the CIO title is full of imagination; Chief Improvement Officer is a right fit for modern CIO role. CIOs need to have unique business insight, technological vision to understand the business not only from the inside-out viewpoint but through outside-in customer’s lens. With that knowledge, CIOs can drive innovation to improve the hard business process and soft organizational culture by implementing the technical solution and improve

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Ten Big Gaps in EA

Future of CIO

EA brings more than just agreement or consensus. EA should be bringing understanding, including asking questions that may not otherwise be asked. Many EA practices are still hidden in ivory towers. What doesn't EA do well? What needs to be further refined and enhanced or extended to increase the value the EA offers to those enterprises which choose to invest in and use it?

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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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Enterprise Architecture as a Strategic Planning Tool

Future of CIO

EA is both an input to strategy (business & IT) and an outcome from it. One of the critical challenges of the modern organization is the need to respond in a high-velocity business environment -fast, dynamic, highly-changing/fluctuating. In such cases, the process of traditional ways of 'Strategic Planning' itself is taking a hit. In such circumstances, how do you see the role of Enterprise Architecture as a Strategic Planning Tool for the company?

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CIO as Chief Inspection Officer: Five Perspectives upon Software Quality

Future of CIO

Software quality begins with the quality of the requirements. Every company desires to have 'quality software.' But the challenge is that many people struggle to provide a definition or rationale. It is an age-old adage that you can't nail software quality down to a single definition. And perhaps we try too hard to come up with one-size fits all into a single sentence.