CTOvision

MARCH 5, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Dear CTOvision readers. You know we love you and I hope it doesn’t seem like I’m pandering to you when I say you are the smart ones who will lead us all to a better/brighter future. I have always believed that and now I have some statistics that back this up. The stats below are from a somewhat unscientific survey. The coupons website Vouchercloud.net showed 2,392 men and women a series of technical and non-technical terms and then were asked to pick from three possib

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 1, 2014

'A large crack has been detected in a dam on the Columbia River that is the largest source of hydro-electric power for a major cluster of data centers in Quincy, Washington.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 4, 2014

'Isaac Sacolick recently wrote a post titled Dear CIO, Here’s How To Help the CMO with Marketing Automation where he talked about the need for CIO’s and CMO’s to work closely together for marketing automation projects. In that post, he wrote: …fully achieving “marketing automation” is no where as easy as SalesForce, Microsoft, or Oracle will sell your CMO.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 5, 2014

'A new business card means that you’re working for a new CEO Image Credit. Roughly half of the having the CIO job is communicating with other people. We all know about communicating the importance of information technology to the rest of the company; however, one of the most important people that you have to communicate with is your CEO. When there is a change at the top, then all of a sudden you’ve got a brand new person to report to.

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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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CTOvision

MARCH 5, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Ralph Kimball is highly regarded in the technology community. He is a fantastic author, great speaker, passionate teacher and a proven innovator. Many of us consider him the father of the data warehouse and he has been driving innovation in that field for years. His approach to dimensional modeling (known as the Kimball methodology) is currently the de facto standard in most enterprise decision support systems.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 3, 2014

'Allied Control is marketing its Immersion-2 liquid cooling design as a container-based approach for ultra high density cooling, supporting loads of up 100 kW a rack.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 3, 2014

'Are you a CIO or IT Leader that "get''s it"? Are you a CIO or an IT leader that wants to provide technology services to the CMO and Marketing department? Perhaps you started small and partnered with the CMO on understanding goals, continued to develop pilot programs, collaborated on data driven programs, and then established lunch/learns so your staff were able to participate in Marketing''s time.

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CTOvision

MARCH 5, 2014

'Executives in the National Security ecosystem in and out of government have been watching with pleasure as the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) seeks to modernize the way it interfaces with the technology community. We previously reported on the very virtuous way they are reporting on their most important innovation needs (Needipedia). DIA has now established another key component of their vision, an Open Innovation Gateway.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 7, 2014

'A new master''s degree program in data centers at Dallas'' SMU and a course at Northwestern are two examples of academia finally embracing the importance of the data center, and potentially trailblazers for data center-specific programs going forward.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 4, 2014

'A day doesn’t pass that I find myself explaining why DaaS isn’t synonymous with VDI – and neither term does justice to the real range of value possible. Both end-users and service providers have a preconceived notion that DaaS simply means delivery of a “desktop”. But that simplistic VDI-style mindset (and desktop-only mindset) doesn’t describe the real range of services possible.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 2, 2014

'Midsize Insider: Cloud FTW (For the Win) – How Gaming Developers are Driving a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Using Open Standards, Cloud. Quote : We are witnessing a historic inflection point in technology. The power and potential of cloud computing to remove entry barriers and enable creativity is far exceeding anyone’s expectations and its impact on today’s smaller enterprise – the startup, entrepreneur, managed service provider and developer – will be staggering.

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CTOvision

MARCH 3, 2014

'By Bob Gourley The Defense Intelligence Agency issued a press release highlighting Mark Mueller, the chief engineer for the Directorate of Science and Technology at DIA. The release is below. The talk gets into meaty topics like Big Data, Analysis, Sustainability and the need for future engineers to have mental agility to craft solutions that cross mission domains.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 6, 2014

'Many still have questions around one of the most popular cloud models – the hybrid cloud environment. Cloud columnist Bill Kleyman looks at five very real use-cases.

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Mick's IT Blog

MARCH 6, 2014

'Here is a script I just wrote that will create an active setup registry key. It prompts you for the title, description, command line execution string, and version. It generates a unique GUID to name the registry key. It then generates the registry key file and places it in the same directory as the script was executed from. Function GetRelativePath{ #Declare Local Memory Set-Variable -Name RelativePath -Scope Local -Force $RelativePath = (split-path $SCRIPT:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path -parent)+

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The Investing Edge

MARCH 3, 2014

'My partner Matt Fates and I have been traveling through Europe this past week as part of the fundraising process for our new fund. After a busy prior few weeks of domestic travel, I am eager to return home, but I do so with enhanced perspective. . While Putin intended the Sochi Olympics to dominate the news, his connection to events in another region captured the front page.

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CTOvision

MARCH 6, 2014

'Hexis Cyber Solutions is fielding one of the most virtuous enterprise cyber security solutions I have evaluated, a capability called HawkEye G. I''ve tracked this capability since it was a concept on a white board and watched as experienced professionals turned those concepts into working models and proven/successful offerings. I was recently treated to an in person overview and demo and can tell you, this is the real deal.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 7, 2014

'Facebook has begun building a second huge server farm in Lulea, Sweden, and has totally reworked its data center design for the project, embracing factory-built components with IKEA-style lean construction techniques.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 6, 2014

'I’ve watched more than my fair share of home renovation television shows. I can’t remember one episode in which the host exclaims, “Look at the details of the threads of this ionized pipe!” But I have seen episodes where a project was completely derailed because of substandard plumbing. Infrastructure is the plumbing of information technology. I’ve heard it said that infrastructure is tactical versus strategic.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

'Welcome to Technology Short Take #39, in which I share a random assortment of links, articles, and thoughts from around the world of data center-related technologies. I hope you find something useful—or at least something interesting! Networking. Jason Edelman has been talking about the idea of a Common Programmable Abstraction Layer (CPAL). He introduces the idea , then goes on to explore—as he puts it—the power of a CPAL.

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CTOvision

MARCH 6, 2014

'Axway (NYSE Euronext: AXW.PA), a market leader in governing the flow of data, is a global software and services company with more than 11,000 public- and private-sector customers in 100 countries. For more than a decade, Axway has empowered the world’s top organizations with proven solutions that help manage business-critical interactions through the exchange of data flowing across the enterprise, B2B communities, the cloud and mobile devices.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 4, 2014

'American Express'' 10 year lease on a massive, 541,000 square foot building with over 150,000 square feet of raised floor is up, and the building is going on the market. Will it become the next big multi-tenant site in Minneapolis?

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 2, 2014

'If like me you are interested in FAST related technologies, trends, tools and related research, check out the conference proceedings with over 320 pages of material.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 6, 2014

'I’ve watched more than my fair share of home renovation television shows. I can’t remember one episode in which the host exclaims, “Look at the details of the threads of this ionized pipe!” But I have seen episodes where a project was completely derailed because of substandard plumbing. Infrastructure is the plumbing of information technology. I’ve heard it said that infrastructure is tactical versus strategic.

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CTOvision

MARCH 3, 2014

'With this post we are initiating coverage of Scality, a firm we are hearing quite a bit of buzz about lately. We first heard of Scality in news of their VC funding rounds in early 2011, and soon thereafter began to get questions from government infrastructure professionals asking how Scality compares to Cleversafe. Cleversafe has been a pioneer and at the time Scality was just a fast moving new entrant.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 1, 2014

'The Week in Review: QTS buys big and builds over time, repurposing spare data center capacity for Bitcoin, IBM buys cloud database specialist, CoreSite opens doors in New Jersey, Forsthe enters development market with Chicago project.

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Future of CIO

MARCH 5, 2014

Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution. There are many forms of innovation - technology, application, product, design, business model, process, communication, or customer experience, etc; there’re also many ‘flavors’ of innovations, systematic innovation, customer-centric innovation, open innovation, design-driven innovation, or management innovation., etc, but fundamentally, what are the innovation gaps, the gap differentiation helps delineate the problems and

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 7, 2014

'Hyper-converged infrastructures are extremely popular. But the one size fits all approach isn’t for everyone. . [link].

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CTOvision

MARCH 6, 2014

'The Unified Certification Standard (UCS) is a certification and audit (similar to a SAS70 Audit) for the cloud computing and managed services industry. Developed by MSPs for MSPs, it’s the longest standing program of its type in existence. The UCS is a standard unlike any other in that it comes with free consulting from our CEO (a world-renowned expert in the managed services and cloud industry) and is the only AUDITED certification made specifically fo.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 4, 2014

'Looking to make your cloud work better? Looking to optimize your data center infrastructure? Here are five real technologies that will improve your cloud!

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Future of CIO

MARCH 7, 2014

" Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, and imagination encircles the world. “ -- Albert Einstein Perhaps it is another chicken and the egg debate: Knowledge vs. Imagination, which one is more important? There is no imagination without knowledge, and there is no knowledge without imagination. Putting information in a human memory is not similar to data storage, as you have to sort through, transform it into the knowledge, and abstract the insight or recreate the new

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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.