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29 May Podcast Weekly Mobile Review - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Podcast: Play in new window | Download. In this podcast I examined some of the top mobile stories of the past week. As I stated in the podcast, a lot has been going on in the mobile world. In a few short weeks there will be.

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Social Media and Public Employees - Part 3 - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Sunday, May 26, 2013. Social Media and Public Employees - Part 3. Employee First Amendment Protection & Employer Discipline.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Porting NMEA Data to the iPhone and iPad

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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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Guest Blog: Sequestration and.

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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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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Reducing the Friction: BBEdit to MarsEdit

Scott Lowe

'In some of the presentations that I give on productivity and efficiency, one of the things I mention is reducing the friction ; that is, making processes more streamlined so they’re easier to perform. In this post, I’m going to describe one way I reduced the friction for producing and publishing blog posts using BBEdit , TextSoap , MarsEdit , and some AppleScript.

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Social Media and Public Employees - Part 2 - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Sunday, May 26, 2013. Social Media and Public Employees - Part 2. Internet Availability.

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Five-Step in Data-Based Decision Making Scenario

Future of CIO

Challenge assumptions. Don't take things as absolutes. It’s no surprise to see more organizations intend to adopt analytics in guiding decision making. But what’s the best way forward, what’re the practices, processes or technologies in leading data-based decision making? 1. Culture Shift is Crucial No two organizations are alike; there is no easy or quick way to achieve advanced analytics.

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A Quick Introduction to Linux Policy Routing - Scott Lowe

Scott Lowe

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Sears to market shuttered stores as Data Centers

Virtualized Greek

'Sears to market shuttered stores as Data Centers. I thought this to be a pretty interesting use of real estate and something very different for Sears. The idea of converting this space into DC’s is pretty intriguing. The store on 79th street is just a few miles from my home in Chicago. .

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MBYOD ? Tiering Your Ecosystem - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. MBYOD – Tiering Your Ecosystem. by Brian Katz on May 31, 2013 · 2 comments. There’s a lot of hubbub about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). It’s guaranteed to stir debate especially when you get IT in the same room as the Business. The arguments start simply enough. IT doesn’t like the loss of control while the Business wants to either save money or enable their workers.

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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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Ten Perspectives upon IT Transformation

Future of CIO

IT transformation is on the horizon to improve IT maturity. Transformation sounds a bit both ambitious and ambiguous, it could mean many things. IT Transformation is one of the current "in vogue" terms. What does "IT Transformation" mean in your business though? IT Transformation is about WHY & WHAT : Why is IT still critical in the organization in the era of Cloud?

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A Use Case for Policy Routing with KVM and Open vSwitch

Scott Lowe

'In an earlier post, I provided an introduction to policy routing as implemented in recent versions of Ubuntu Linux (and possibly other distributions as well), and I promised that in a future post I would provide a practical application of its usage. This post looks at that practical application: how—and why—you would use Linux policy routing in an environment running OVS and a Linux hypervisor (I’ll assume KVM for the purposes of this post).

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vExpert 2013

Virtualized Greek

'I’ve been blogging for about 3 years on virtualization and virtualization related topics. I really didn’t get into it for accolades but as a way to force myself to learn new things and in the process teach others. It was also a way to point potential clients or employers to me during a tough job market. I’ve really enjoyed progressing to a level of respect to be recognized as a vExpert in 2013.

Vmware 40
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The evolution of parallel entrepreneurship exemplifies today’s experimental economy

Trends in the Living Networks

'In today’s world planning is close to obsolete. Companies small and large must experiment to find what works and what doesn’t work. The lean startup movement has provided a clear model of how to iterate through trial, error, and finally success. There have been many discussions around parallel entrepreneurship and whether it diffuses resources and energy rather than focusing entrepreneurial capabilities on a single endeavor, its rise is a sign of the times.

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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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Forward-Looking Business’s Five Most Valued Expectations from CIOs

Future of CIO

“Outlier” CIOs have the better ability to connect innovation dots. Modern IT is so pervasive, as such, CIO becomes such sophisticated role, forward-looking organizations have many expectations from their CIOs, clearly, CIOs need to wear multiple hats and practice multiple disciplines in managing a high-performing IT organization. 1. Create Strategic Value for the Company A CIO is a highly complex role, the reason being that a really good CIO will look at a business from both a business strategy

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How to Architect Customer Centric Organization

Future of CIO

Customer-centric enterprise vision, strategy and governance model should enforce alignment of the various silos towards customer-centric products and delivery mechanisms. The ultimate goal of the customer-centric organization is to architect an organization to bring value to customers in ways that are beneficial for them while also creating additional value for the company itself.

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Should Risk & Compliance Stay under the same Umbrella

Future of CIO

Risk and compliance should work really closely in order to create value. As part of the effort to run a successful business, organizations have to manage the risks to business operations with an eye on strategic plan. Requirements to ensure compliance are another component of the company’s risks. However, in some businesses, compliance functions saying that they never talk to their cousins of Risk Management, what are ideal reporting lines for risk and compliance, should they stay under the same

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EA as Business Capability Producer

Future of CIO

The value that EA brings to the table is not just the collection or creation of artifacts, it is not just aligning business and technology, it is not just business improvement but in fact a combination of all of these factors and more. A business capability is the ability to conduct the business of a particular organization in a particular way, meeting predefined requirements derived from the business model of that organization.

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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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Should VMware consider a free version of vCenter

Virtualized Greek

'A couple of years ago, I was helping a client do a trade study of vSphere vs. Hyper-V. vSphere won in that instance even with cost of licensing. Now that MS has released Hyper-v 3.0 and other competitors have solutions that allow you to have features such as live migration, I was wondering out loud if it’s time for a vCenter “lite” for free.

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