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DOD Enterprise Email Reaches One Million User Milestone.

CTOvision

'FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. ? Two years after its inception, the Department of Defense Enterprise Email system reached one million users when a Soldier at Fort Riley, Kan. received a new email account today. Reaching.

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Measuring Costs in Agile Delivery - Social, Agile, and Transformation

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. Monday, March 11, 2013. Measuring Costs in Agile Delivery.

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Professional services will be at the heart of our economic future

Trends in the Living Networks

Last night was the announcement of the winners of the annual BRW Client Choice Awards. Each year Beaton Consulting compiles the opinions of large professional service clients – this year 40,000 of them – who collectively select the best professional service firms in Australia. The results are announced at a gala dinner and published in BRW magazine.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Stopping system from locking

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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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Agency cybersecurity deficiencies remain as attacks reach all-time.

CTOvision

'Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Napolitano: Cybersecurity executive order only part of the solution ? ?President Obama's Feb. 12 executive order falls short of a complete cybersecurity plan and should be.

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Elastic Beanstalk a la Node - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Elastic Beanstalk a la Node. By Werner Vogels on 11 March 2013 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I spent a lot of time talking to AWS developers, many working in the gaming and mobile space, and most of them have been finding Node.js well suited for their web applications.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Powershell: Robocopy Invalid Parameter Error

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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Register for the 2013 FOSE Conference - CTOvision

CTOvision

'FOSE's all-encompassing government technology conference will equip you with real-world tools, tactics and strategies via technology trailblazers who've been there, done that. From lessons learned to kudos earned, expect.

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BYOD: Dessert or Disaster? - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. BYOD: Dessert or Disaster? by Brian Katz on March 13, 2013 · 4 comments. It’s telling that Bring Your Own Device is shortened into the acronym BYOD. It’s just another 4 letter word that depending on the context you use it in, is either your company’s downfall or its savior. For some, it’s just another way to save money on the bottom line.

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Trainsignal Video Training

Virtualized Greek

'I just signed up for Trainsignal Video Training. I’ve used their Cisco CCNA product in the past and thought pretty highly of the product. I have to renew my CCNA and discovered they have gone to a subscription model of $49/mo for all you can eat training which is an outstanding offer. I have the technical goals of renewing my CCNA, obtaining my VCP and learning more Linux.

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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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Is the Gap between Business and IT Shrinking?

Future of CIO

Bridging the gap between IT and the Business are real issues of all about change. IT is better integrated with the business than ever before. However, IT remains quite distinct in terms of performance metrics, structure, career path, etc. there are still numerous debates about “He said, She said” in CIO forums, Is the gap between business and IT shrinking?

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Organizations using web crawlers, DARPA will no longer support.

CTOvision

'More Cyber News we are tracking: Several organizations around the country have been collecting and selling PII, DARPA will no longer support CFT, VMware's Horizon Mirage 4.0, and more. Who's keeping track of Who?

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- Are Government CIOs Irrelevant?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'The Government CIO as viewed by the Business. “The Department of No”. “The Geeks in the Basement”. “Expensive Projects, Always Late”.Increasingly, many IT departments – and their CIOs – are becoming irrelevant to the business of government. Peter Hinssen is a visiting lecturer at London Business School and a senior industry fellow at the University of California Irvine’s School of Business.

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VirtualizedGeek Tech Talks Episode 4

Virtualized Greek

'In episode 4 -. Should AWS and OpenStack mimic VMware’s Cloud model for enterprise adoption. VMware should drop the course requirement for the VCP.

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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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Three Questions to Define KPIs for IT Organization

Future of CIO

Broadly speaking, the KPIs of the organization need to be the KPIs of the IT function. Today’s IT organization intends to become a business’s growth engine, rather than just a maintenance back-office, a value center, not just a cost center; be proactive than just reactive., etc. How to measure IT performance can be the right step to improve IT maturity, so what are the important Key Performance Questions and related KPIs for IT today?

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The 7 characteristics of powerful visions for effective leadership

Trends in the Living Networks

‘Visionary leadership’ is one of the phrases most bandied about these days, yet it is almost always an aspiration rather than a description. A vision of what is possible is a prerequisite to visionary leadership. That vision can come from an individual, but more often it is the product of many people. The vision that underpins visionary leadership is definitely not the ‘Vision’ that is encapsulated in a neat phrase and sits alongside the ‘Mission Statement’ and its ilk.

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New Prezi: The 45 elements of the Future of the CIO framework

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the ways in which I use the frameworks I create is as a foundation for my keynote speeches. Since in many cases the frameworks are designed to distil the key ideas in a domain into a single graphic, they can provide a valuable lattice and flow for the ideas in a presentation. Visual presentation tool Prezi can be a great way to do this, in showing the logic and structure of the framework through the presentation, while allowing me to zoom in through the presentation to illustrate the spec

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Does Governance Stifle Innovation

Future of CIO

The leverage point is to let innovation shine via the effective governance discipline, but not adding too much complexity. Innovation and governance seem to be the opposite practice: Do individuals believe governance is essential to effective business innovation and that the two are interdependent? Or do individuals believe governance is incompatible with innovation and leads ultimately to company failure?

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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.