Sat.Jun 08, 2013 - Fri.Jun 14, 2013

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Author of Microsoft Business Intelligence End-user Tools Provides.

CTOvision

'Editor's note: Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen is the author of Microsoft Business Tools, and is well positioned to provide context on ways users can better leverage these tools. -bg.

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Cybercrime Is The Other Guys Problem, Right CIO?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Do CIOs have to worry about the other guy when it comes to cybercrime? Image Credit. Whew! Your IT department staff who are in charge of securing the company’s network have just reported to you that all patches are up-to-date and so the latest worm / trojan / virus that everyone is talking about shouldn’t affect you. However, when you stop for a moment and think about all of the companies that you do business with , maybe it will affect you….

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How technologies will expand and replace human work

Trends in the Living Networks

'The Australian Financial Review is today running a special feature on the world to 2100, including an article on technology trends titled Connecting to a rising tide of data. The article covers a number of themes, including the expansion of connectivity, data, and devices, and the impact of technology on healthcare, drawing on interviews with a wide range of experts including Australian of the Year Dr Fiona Wood.

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The Symbiosis Between Automation and Engineering

Scott Lowe

'A little while ago Steve Beaver wrote a post titled “Is Automation Killing The Engineering?” In the post, Steve ponders whether the increased use of automation in today’s data centers is killing engineering knowledge. The argument, as I understand it, says that because tasks are becoming increasingly automated, data center professionals are increasingly less knowledgeable about how things actually work.

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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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DoD's New Air Sea Battle Concept: An overview - CTOvision

CTOvision

'airseabattle The recently released summary of the Air-Sea Battle: Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access and Area Denial Challenges provides interesting reading on how DoD is preparing to meet evolving threats.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Autodesk Revit 2013 Hotfix Script

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: CNBC Closing Bell: Bob.

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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So what was all the WWDC fuss about? - CTOvision

CTOvision

'apple-logo Apple held their annual Worldwide Developer's Conference this week. Most of the internet is abuzz, everyone with an opinion of their own. They released details on new versions of OS X (now called Mavericks).

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Mick's IT Blogs: PowerShell: Display all Add/Remove Program.

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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Crowdsourcing for social development and economic opportunity: Case study of Malaysia

Trends in the Living Networks

'I am at the Digital Malaysia National Crowdsourcing Conference in Kuala Lumpur, where I gave the keynote this morning on the global crowdsourcing landscape and the opportunities for Malaysia. . It is fantastic to see what Malaysia is doing. Digital Malaysia is the government agency tasked with developing Malaysia as a digital nation towards 2020. One of its 8 current major initiatives is in using crowdsourcing to give work and opportunities to the least advantaged 40% of the population.

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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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What’s In a Name? Plenty if you think about it…

A CIO's Voice

'Like all parents my wife and I had the very lengthy discussions on what to name our son when we found out he was a boy. This was a very arduous task both opposing opinions and armies. So we had to compromise and compromise we did. First we eliminated all outside influences – family and friends. They all had their own agenda and we wanted this to be personal and in our control.

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DISA collapsing wired networks, expanding wireless, Coasties don't.

CTOvision

'NSA Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Coasties don't want expensive TISCOM laptops ? According to a recent DHS audit, the Coast Guard is sitting on over 5,000 laptops in Coast Guard Telecommunications.

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Mick's IT Blogs: APPLYING WINDOWS UPDATE MSU FILES TO.

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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Resources for Networking and Network Virtualization

Scott Lowe

'Good friend (and now colleague ) John Troyer asked me via e-mail if I had a “reading list” for networking and network virtualization. I didn’t have a formally-prepared “reading list,” so I just shared with John some of the resources that I personally use. John’s response was: “You should blog this.” So, here it is—a list of resources for networking and network virtualization.

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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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Running a nested vCenter Appliance inside of ESXi on VMware Fusion 5.0

Virtualized Greek

'I’m really trying to move my everyday computing from the PC to the 13″ Macbook Pro w/Retina that I purchased a couple of months ago. One of the things I still need even on my laptop is a decent VMware lab. As I noted in an earlier post you can’t run the full Windows based vCenter and the ESXi hosts needed for a decent lab. So, I figured why not run a nested vCenter Appliance inside of one of the virtual vSphere host?

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leaked cyberwar policy ppd20 - CTOvision

CTOvision

'The leaked PPD-20 provides valuable insights about U.S. cyber war policy and perhaps even a small measure of consolation for cyber war critics.

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Enablement - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Enablement. by Brian Katz on June 11, 2013 · 0 comments. Memorial Day weekend was a fun long weekend for me. Although as with anything, there were many choices to be made. In my case I have two daughters who had very different schedules last weekend. My younger daughter was playing in a soccer tournament while my older daughter was participating in a charity fundraiser.

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Reducing the Friction: Using Keyboard Shortcuts

Scott Lowe

'One thing that I personally have found extremely helpful in making common tasks easier—a key aspect of the “reducing the friction” idea I’ve been discussing—is the use of keyboard shortcuts. In this post, I want to talk about how you might be able to maximize your use of keyboard shortcuts to help improve your personal efficiency.

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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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EA as Problem Solver

Future of CIO

If you do not produce the useable results for the enterprise in a short time frame, then your EA work takes too long. Sometimes EA is like a solution looking for a problem; in other words, EA practitioners believe they can be relevant and have valuable output to contribute, but the intended stakeholders have yet to discover this. How to make EA as a true problem solver?

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VirtualizedGeek Tech Talk Episode 16

Virtualized Greek

'Episode 16. VMware vs. AWS via OpenStack. Why I decided to go ahead and take the risk and pay for VMworld.

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Recognizing vExperts as Evangelists

Nutanix

Almost 600 VMware gurus were chosen for the coveted vExpert award this year. We are proud to announce that six of our own Nutanix employees are on that list: Jason Langone, Raymon Epping, Dwayne Lessner, Craig Waters, Steve Kaplan, and Bas Raayman.

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The Symbiosis Between Automation and Engineering

Scott Lowe

'A little while ago Steve Beaver wrote a post titled “Is Automation Killing The Engineering?” In the post, Steve ponders whether the increased use of automation in today’s data centers is killing engineering knowledge. The argument, as I understand it, says that because tasks are becoming increasingly automated, data center professionals are increasingly less knowledgeable about how things actually work.

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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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An Innovator’s Profile

Future of CIO

Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest. For many, innovation is serendipity, and innovators are the crazy one, indeed, innovators are among us and within us, it relates to leadership, empathy, idealism, process understanding, communication skills, cultural understanding, and definitely - understanding in what is wrong with the status quo. Can you see yourself in the innovator’s profile?

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Fathers of Clouds - A Tribute

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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Why Nutanix is a Great Fit for US Public Sector

Nutanix

In this tough economic climate how is Nutanix still seeing such great traction across federal customers? I think the answers lies in a combination of some decisions Nutanix made early on and some key trends prevalent across the Federal Government.

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Resources for Networking and Network Virtualization - blog.

Scott Lowe

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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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EA as Governance Champion

Future of CIO

It is a strategic imperative for EA to become a governance champion, guide through decision processes and activities. Governance is a concept that applies to make decisions where multiple stakeholders need to be taken into account and the usual delegation of management control is not effective. Governance is one of the most important tasks of EA, as the architect needs to understand how decisions are made in the organization in order to get an impact on EA work.

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OpenStack powered by VMware

Virtualized Greek

'The more I think about it the strategy of VMware joining OpenStack is starting to make more and more sense. I wrote an earlier piece on how vCloud Director vs. OpenStack wasn’t the debate. Similar I don’t believe VMware and OpenStack compete at even the datacenter layer or Cloud layer for that matter. An argument could be made that before VMware and EMC spun off Pivotal that OpenStack and VMware were direct competitors but since the spinoff I’m thinking VMware really does w

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Auctions and bidding: A guide.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists. By Werner Vogels on 08 June 2013 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have just returned from the AWS Summits in New Zealand and Japan, which were both very well attended and, according to the feedback, very successful.

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Reducing the Friction: Using Keyboard Shortcuts - Scott Lowe

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.