CIO Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2013
'One chart from a recent survey I did on citizen involvement in local government. Interesting that as many people get information on their local government via word of mouth as by TV and Newspaper. More research to come!
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
'Google purchased a 60-year-old paper mill in Finland, which it has converted into one of its most modern, efficient data centers worldwide, and its now investing an additional EUR450 million (about 608 million in USD) to continue expansion of the facility.
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CTOvision
NOVEMBER 3, 2013
'By Bob Gourley The iPhone continues to amaze me. It has always been powerful and transformational, but did you know the iPhone 5 has the power to be a robot? Yes an electro-mechanical robot that moves autonomously in the physical world. Watch the video below and you will see this robotic movement in action. Turning your iPhone into a robot only requires a download an app called Cycloramic.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
'Fourth Grade Lesson on Data Science Last week, I attended my fourth grade son''s open house at school and sat through his math class. The teacher walked through the steps to solve a word-math problem. You know the kind - "Sally has $3.85, spends $1.20 on materials for lemonade then sells four cups at $0.65. How much money does she have?" This was a great experience for me to observe.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'CIOs need to learn how to ride the tsunami of big data Image Credit. CIOs have always had to find ways to deal with data. Collecting it, storing it, processing it, and eventually archiving it. The arrival of the era of Big Data has almost overnight turned what was already a challenging task into a nearly impossible task. Everyone in the company understands the importance of information technology and they all believe that the IT department can solve all data related problems.
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'LinkedIn, the social network for business, continues to expand its data center infrastructure to support its rapid growth. The company signed a $116 million, 11-year lease for a large chunk of data center space in Dallas.
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Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
'The latest in the Meeting of the Minds series of conversations between fellow-futurist Gerd Leonhard and myself is on the Future of Media, Print, Publishing , produced by Jonathan Marks. The video and some summary notes from the conversation are below. Some of the things we discuss: * In just the last few years the few rapidly growing newspaper markets remaining, such as India, have turned around and are now declining. * Print will survive in pockets, including free, suburban, and rural papers.
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 3, 2013
'Inversion and The Power of Avoiding Stupidity. Quote: Spend less time trying to be brilliant and more time trying to avoid obvious stupidity. The kicker? Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance. Innovate on Purpose: What to control and what to release for innovation success. Quote: Because innovation teams and their managers are unfamiliar with innovation, they apply two concepts: innovation is creative and artistic, so it shouldn’t be “bound” by definitions or pr
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'Cisco today launched new switches, software and services through its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) initiative, which is the networking giant''s response to emergence of software defined networking.
SPF13
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'While developing Hugo I became disappointed with the interface limitations flags alone provide. A quick look at virtually any command line application (ls, grep, less, etc) reveals that most applications overuse flags to do everything and often allow conflicting flags to be applied. Even though hugo is relatively simple, we already had the ability to stack flags that didn’t make sense.
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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.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 7, 2013
'In today’s fast-paced Information Technology (IT) field, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are being asked to do more than ever. No longer is it enough to just make sure that the company’s various servers and email systems are up and operating correctly, now CIOs have to play a role in setting the company’s overall strategic direction.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
'The quality of Wikipedia has been well established. A well-known study was carried out in 2005 by scientific journal Nature showing that the accuracy of Wikipedia articles on science was comparable to that of Encyclopedia Brittanica. A more recent study by Epic and University of Oxford again showed comparable quality of articles across many domains of study and languages.
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
'On Monday, HGST announced a new Helium-filled hard drive, which boosts storage capacity by reducing drag. Because they''re hermetically sealed, the drives are ideal for immersion cooling. At Cloud Expo, HGST showed off an immersion cooling implementation of its Ultrastar He6 drive.
SPF13
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
While developing Hugo I became disappointed with the interface limitations flags alone provide. A quick look at virtually any command line application (ls, grep, less, etc) reveals that most applications overuse flags to do everything and often allow conflicting flags to be applied. Even though hugo is relatively simple, we already had the ability to stack flags that didn’t make sense.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 3, 2013
'What does it take to be a successful CIO? Studies have shown that the average CIO only holds on to the job for roughly 4 years – what can you do to have a longer career? It turns out that the answer to this question is simple: you need to find ways to work with the rest of the business. What this means is that although your technical skills and your ability to work with the rest of the people in the IT department are what got you this far, it’s not going to be what you need in order to st
Storage IO Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'What does gaining industry traction or adoption mean too you? Is it based on popularity or how often something that is talked about, blogged, tweeted, commented, video or similar? What are the indicators that something is gaining traction? Perhaps it is tied to the number of press releases, product or staffing announcements including who has […].
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
'Boring servers whirring away in a data center never seem exciting until they are used to power an animated film and show off that technology in full glorious color and clarity.
Virtualized Greek
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
'There was a time when I could reliably look toward Cisco to lead the network industry in providing capabilities that dragged along in the slow dredge that can be standards boards. Cisco would fill the gap where standards bodies were slow to react. For instance, Cisco long ago expanded the capability of the IGRP routing protocol view its EIGRP proprietary standard.
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Future of CIO
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
It is science from a learning perspective and art in implementing what you learned in combination with other skills. IT management success directly impact the organization’s bottom line efficiency and top-line growth, especially large, complex projects. However, more than two third of IT projects fail to reach customer expectation, so what’re the root causes, and is IT management science or art?
Storage IO Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'Some fall 2013 AWS cloud storage and compute enhancements I just received via Email the October Amazon Web Services (AWS) Newsletter in advance of the re:Invent event next week in Las Vegas (yes I will be attending). AWS October newsletter and enhancement updates EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) has been enhanced with reserved micro instances EBS […].
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
'Schneider Electric introduced 15 new prebricated data center modules as well as 14 data center reference designs. The prefabricated data centers are scalable in up to 2 megawatt increments.
A Screw's Loose
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
'I had the great fortune to spend an hour talking with Mark Thiele the other day (seriously, if you ever have the opportunity don’t pass it up). We had an awesome conversation about many subjects but the one that stuck with me was an aside on how cloud and mobile go together like peanut butter [.].
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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
'I spent some time with a colleague this week discussing how partners work with Microsoft, and it''s a conversation I''ve had in many shapes and forms for almost 15 years with many Microsoft partners in partner briefings, conferences, advisory boards, executive round tables, and other less formal venues (ie/eg, over beers). Having built much of my career around partnering with Microsoft, I have strong opinions about this "dance" that we do, and if you know me at all, you know that I am generou
Future of CIO
NOVEMBER 2, 2013
Software can be measured in the 'hard' way accordingly. Software eats the world, all forward-looking organizations declare they are at information businesses, and strive for software Quality, but most of them may not know how to define Quality. As quality, especially software quality is contextual and relative, but still, there can be set of guidelines which can help the team to follow the best practices to measure software quality accordingly. 1.
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
'Rather than being absorbed by the global telecom titan NTT Communications, RagingWire will retain its brand and management team and operate as an autonomous unit within NTT. We talk with the RagingWire team about what the deal means for the growing colo provider.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2013
'Like the Mariners’ string of depressing seasons and lost opportunities, this month’s botched rollout of the federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) healthcare.gov website represents a huge lost opportunity for the federal government. And some of the root causes of these two fiascos are amazingly similar. Washington state’s own, separate, health benefit exchange registered phenomenal success, enrolling over 35,000 people in three weeks.
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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
I spent some time with a colleague this week discussing how partners work with Microsoft, and it's a conversation I've had in many shapes and forms for almost 15 years with many Microsoft partners in partner briefings, conferences, advisory boards, executive round tables, and other less formal venues (ie/eg, over beers). Having built much of my career around partnering with Microsoft, I have strong opinions about this "dance" that we do, and if you know me at all, you know that I am generous a
Future of CIO
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
Knowledge is manpower, and wisdom is nature power; knowledge is the start of human intelligence, wisdom is the highest level of human intelligence. Knowledge can be defined as the capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc. Knowledge is an intangible resource which can be converted into tangible content and which can be utilized to produce measurable advances/progress in the business at h
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
'Enabled by the recent eighth edition of OpenStack (Havana) and heading into OpenStack Summit Hong Kong this week, vendors Brocade, Midokura, and Mellanox have OpenStack related announcements.
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
'As part of some work I’ve been doing to stretch myself and my boundaries, I’ve recently started diving a bit deeper into working with REST APIs. As I started this exploration, one thing can kept coming up again and again was JSON. In this post, I’m going to try to provide an introduction to JSON for non-programmers (like me). Let’s start with the acronym: “JSON” stands for “JavaScript Object Notation” It’s a lightweight, text-based format, a
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