CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
'Hadoop World will be held 15-17 Oct in NYC. This post provides insights into the best technologies that will be demonstrating there and suggestions on who to see. CTOvision has attended Hadoop World since the beginning. Attending has helped us better track tech trends and assess the potential business impacts of some of the greatest technologies created for the enterprise.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Over the years, some industry pundits have expressed frustration with Uptime Institute’s Tier Classification System for being confusing, writes Matt Stansberry of Uptime Institute. But in many cases, these individuals have misrepresented the purpose and purview of the program. Fundamentally, it is.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'If data scientists, analysts, quants, or BI specialists are in a centralized department, then that group can staff and train its members to support one or more technologies based on business need. Technologies such as data processing, analytics, statistics, visualization, or data mining are good examples. But what happens when these resources are scattered across multiple departments.
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Do CIOs and CMO really have to fight? Image Credit. If there is one fact of life that everyone who has the CIO job has had to learn to deal with, it’s that our IT budgets never seem to be big enough. However, it turns out that there is someone else in the company who does not have the same problem: the CMO. In fact, the CMO has so much money to spend, they are starting to build their own IT department.
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.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
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Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'Moonshot ProLiant m400 is powered by X-Gene and aimed at web caching workloads and mobile app development Read More.
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Cloud Musings
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'" Picture Ben Franklin attempting to harness energy from a lightning-filled sky. The key tied to his kite was the middleman between electricity and the ground. This book details how using the cloud can be your key to finding or enhancing success." Understanding cloud computing is hard enough. Cloud service brokerage, however, is the way forward for just about any enterprise.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'DHL, a German logistics company , has announced its launch of a new drone delivery service that will transport “urgently needed goods”, which include life-saving medicines, to remote locations. The company’s plan is to use small, parcel-carrying drones to deliver medications and emergency supplies to Juist, an island in Germany’s North Sea, where more traditional delivery options (such as ferries or trains) aren’t always available.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 3, 2014
'AWS reboot to apply a patch to Xen included reboot of 218 of Netflix''s Cassandra nodes, but the system persevered Read More.
SPF13
OCTOBER 2, 2014
Hugo, the fast and flexible static site generator, is really coming of age. I wanted to give a quick update about the progress Hugo has been making over the past couple months. New Website Hugo can now be found at [link] Update your bookmarks. New Team Members I want to formally welcome our newest team members. Tatsushi Demachi has been making excellent contributions hugo, particularly with extensions to the template capabilities.
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Mick's IT Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2014
'The firm I work for does a weekly reboot. As we revamped our SCCM and AD, it was time to revisit the reboot process. I decided to use PowerShell in conjunction with SCCM to handle this process. To make the process easier to maintain and verify, I split it into two parts. There is the reboot script and the verification script. The reboot script creates an empty log file called NotRebooted.log and reboots the PC.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'What defines Big Data is still up for debate, writes K.G. Anand of Avocent. Regardless of its definition, data must be kept both secure and available in your data center. Read More.
Virtualized Greek
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'Sunday evening, I was at the laptop drafting a blog post when I took a break and checked my client e-mail account. To remind you, this is a client of a job that I’m leaving because I want better work/life.
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Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
Strategic-operational KPIs alignment gives the organization a powerful tool to use when implementing change. KPIs are indicators to identify if the adopted strategy, operation, and process, etc are working toward the objective. As such, you don't "adopt" a KPI to "achieve an outcome," you adopt a strategy or operational workflow to achieve the outcome, and you define KPIs to monitor the progress and performance.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 3, 2014
'The Stevens Honor Award has been awarded every year since 1945. The award recognizes notable individuals in any field of endeavor and has been awarded to remarkable individuals, including aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky, and architect and inventor R Buckminster, as well as many more. Doctor David Farber is the recipient of this year’s Stevens Honor Award.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'A remarkable, nearly-invisible technology rests at the intersection of billions of people around the world and their every waking moment, writes David Nicholson of EMC''s Emerging Technologies Division. It’s flash technology and it’s forever changing the way we live our lives and run our.
Virtualized Greek
OCTOBER 3, 2014
'The recent Amazon and Rackspace Xen security patching shows how far infrastructure needs to go before it becomes the invisible plumbing of the Internet let alone enterprise IT. Netflix wrote an interesting blog post that shows the lengths they went.
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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.
Future of CIO
OCTOBER 2, 2014
The risk is part of innovation, but you can manage parts of these risks. Not so many people like innovation, because innovation stands for risk, and that is associated with trouble. Innovation is only attractive to the ones who spend their whole life thinking and building the creative stuff. A rarer skill is being able to interpret that creative idea into a marketable innovation.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'When Microsoft released Windows 8 two years ago, its massive departure from its predecessor made a big splash in the technology community. Windows 8 represented a big change for Microsoft, which was investing heavily on the fact that desktop computers, laptops, and tablets were quickly converging toward a common platform. While the incorporation of touch-screens and the emphasis on applications demonstrated Microsoft’s willingness to change, many found that the execution of the new operating sy
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 3, 2014
'Outside of a small number of players, Big Data is not really all that big, writes Michael Bushong of Plexxi. But that doesn’t mean that architects building out infrastructure for a Big Data era can ignore scale altogether. Read More.
Nutanix
OCTOBER 3, 2014
There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.
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Future of CIO
OCTOBER 1, 2014
If you sow negativity, you will reap it. The stereotypical mind is an anti-digital mindset. On this global platform and within one’s own heart, you have the power and responsibility to break down stereotypes. Think about the stereotypes you hold about who leaders are and what they look like? This is a highly relevant topic in this day and age with the whole spectrum of digitalization.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Next year the mobile payment service PayPal will become a publicly traded company after it’s split from eBay. With many companies, including Apple, entering into the mobile payment sector, PayPal now has more major competitors. Almost a year after billionaire Carl Icahn opened a proxy fight and pressured eBay for a spinoff of PayPal, eBay President and CEO John Donahoe announced the split Tuesday.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'Views expansion as opportunity to sell cloud into industries with data sovereignty requirements Read More.
Nutanix
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.
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Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
The problem-solving mindset has synthetic nature with multi-level thinking processes involved, such as strategic thinking, system thinking, critical thinking, creative thinking, and empathetic thinking. etc. The lack of problem-solvers is a problem for this world. Problem-solving has no equal in the development of intellect and becoming more human. What’s the problem-solving mindset though?
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'Solar power has one major downfall and that is what to do when the sun is not shining. One team of international scientists has come up with a solution: a device that collects energy from sunlight and converts it to hydrogen. The hydrogen can then be stored and burned as fuel or it can be fed through a fuel cell to generate electricity. Named a ‘water splitter’, the device has been tipped as the next big thing in solar technology, says Kevin Bullis.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'Intercloud partner ecosystem grows, and so does the potential market for Cisco’s answer to open SDN tech Read More.
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 3, 2014
'Captured this Flamingo at the Como Zoo in St Paul MN last week. Captured with Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my Zenfolio portfolio (where you can buy images). If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by visiting Adorama (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.
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.
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