Sat.Feb 09, 2013 - Fri.Feb 15, 2013

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Selling to Government (Especially DoD) ? It's not all about YOU.

CTOvision

'selling My job is all about finding commercial solutions that will solve government problems. Some of my favorite work experiences have been when I can connect a new technology to an existing government problem!

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What Are The Hot Issues That Today's CIOs Need To Worry About? (The CIO job is to use the CIO position to communicate the importance of information technology)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'If you don’t know what the hot issues are, you just might get burned… Image Credit. At every company, the CIO has a lot of different things that he or she is expected to be able to accomplish. At the same time, there are many things that are going on in the business environment around them. The entire company realizes the importance of information technology; however, at the end of the day, the big question that every CIO needs to be able to answer is out of everything that they have on t

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Mobile App Development in the Enterprise: What’s Next?

The Investing Edge

'Mobile apps are expected to drive more than $38 billion in revenue by 2015, and enterprises have joined the cause. Not only has there been a significant shift in how enterprises develop and deploy software (enterprises now deploy more apps for employee internal use (22%) than consumers (12%) , but smartphones have become the dominant interaction point for employees, as they have with customers and consumers.

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The Amazon Elastic Transcoder - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Elastic Transcoder. By Werner Vogels on 11 February 2013 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). While I was returning from an exciting time in New Orleans watching the Super Bowl, AWS launched a very cool, brand new service: Amazon Elastic Transcoder.

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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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Alphabet Soup - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Alphabet Soup. by Brian Katz on February 13, 2013 · 1 comment. In the mobile world, we literally live in an alphabet soup. There are more acronyms than you can shake a stick at and once you figure out what the acronyms stand for you have to figure out what they mean. If we start to look at the list, BYOD, COPE, MDM, MAM, MIM, EMM, MEAP, MADP, TEM, MRM, CoIT, and MEM, we quickly realize that we have a bunch of terms that really mean

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How I picture Network as a Service and SDN (here’s an idea for Google Fiber)

Virtualized Greek

'So, NetworkWorld ran a story on a solution from startup Pertino’s Network as a Service (NaaS). It actually sounds like a pretty cool solution that’s very simple to setup. The backbone of the solution uses a SDN based control plan that runs on AWS. This solution is as Cloud as Cloud gets. However, this isn’t what I picture when I think of NaaS.

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Is “Love” an Ingredient in Leadership

Future of CIO

“ Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. ” -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Another Valentine’s Day to ponder love, and George Ferris Jr., whose 154th birthday is celebrated with a Valentine's Day-themed Google Doodle today, was an American engineer. He is mostly known for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.

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Ode to BYOD - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Ode to BYOD. by Brian Katz on February 14, 2013 · 1 comment. It’s that most wonderful time of the year. You know the one, where that special parent lets their baby fly around all by itself while playing with sharp weapons. Or for those of you wearing red today, the holiday with the flying toddler in a diaper who shoots arrows dipped in love potion at people.

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The battle between the application owner and virtualization admin

Virtualized Greek

'Virtualizing your x86 infrastructure has almost become a given. On the surface the benefits are pretty obvious. Increased up-time . Reduced costs from resource pooling. Enhanced DR capability. Rapid server deployment. Enhanced Test/Dev capability. As a virtualization administrator it is an easy sell to your management team. They understand both the technical and financial advantages of the solution.

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Amazon Redshift and Designing for Resilience - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon Redshift and Designing for Resilience. By Werner Vogels on 15 February 2013 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). As you may remember from our announcement at re: Invent in November 2012, Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that delivers fast query performance at less than one tenth the cost of most traditional data warehouse systems.

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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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IT ROI: Hard Numbers or Fuzzy Logic

Future of CIO

Each organization has specific, measurable goals and objectives they have to hit through investing in IT. IT investment in many organizations is a controversial subject, Statistically seventy percent of technology initiatives don't have a direct measurable effect on the bottom line, as there’re full of opportunities and risks; IT ROI is more like fuzzy logic these days and cause negative consequences: lack of business respect, mistrust of project intent and difficulty in entering into the mainst

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My answer to the best interview question ever

Virtualized Greek

'I’ve become a pretty big fan of LinkedIn over the years and the other day I saw a post that gave me a little pause. It was click bait to be sure - The Best Interview Question. The question stated basically what is the most significant contribution or project I delivered in my career. If you are pretty young in your career this isn’t too difficult of a question to answer.