CTOvision

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'By AdamElkus. Editor’s note: This article was first published on Analyst One , a site focused on analysts and topics of interest to the analytical community.-bg. Eminent network scientist Laszlo Barabasi recently penned an op-ed calling on fellow scientists to spearhead the ethical use of big data. Comparing big data to the atom bomb, Barabasi persuasively argued that the technology and methodologies he and other social network theorists had created had far outstripped societal controls

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 16, 2013

'Facebook has began migrating data to its newly constructed cold storage facility. On Tuesday it opened the facility to reporters, providing a look at a hyperscale implementation of custom-built long-term storage.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 15, 2013

'New Entrant VMware Will Raise Awareness If you look at Gartner Research''s 2013 Hype Cycle for IT Infrastructure and Outsourcing Services , you''ll find Hosted Virtual Desktops (HVDs) at the very peak of hype this year, outdistancing all other technologies. For years HVDs were considered a niche technology, where an outsourcing provider (typically a Managed Service Provider or MSP) delivers virtualized desktops from an external source.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2013

'The Healthcare.gov web site is now almost open…. As CIOs we can always be learning about the importance of information technology by watching what other IT organizations are doing. A fantastic opportunity has just shown up in the U.S. As part of the Obamacare overhaul of how healthcare is provided to U.S. citizens, a new web site has been set up to allow every U.S. citizen an opportunity to register for healthcare insurance coverage.

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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.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: This list first appeared on our site Analyst One. -bg. In March 2011 Businessweek quoted Cloudera’s Mike Olson describing a “Cambrian explosion” of corporate analytical technology. Mike really nailed it with that one. With the continuous development of advanced infrastructure based around Apache Hadoop there has been an incredible amount of innovation around enterprise “Big Data” technologies, including in the analytical tool sp

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'With the availability of fast interconnect technologies, disaggregation of storage from the compute servers considerably reduces the total cost of investment in the data center in various ways, improves the efficiency of the storage utilization, adds to the resiliency of the storage stacks, and.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 13, 2013

'“It Won’t Work. We Tried That”. Quote : Bottom line: bad marketing science is dangerous. And we should demand that it at least get itself a half-decent disguise – with data and control groups and stuff – before we accept it as real science. “We tried that,” just doesn’t cut it. Napoleon’s Fatal Mistake. Quote : He did not like to delegate, and therefore the men he promoted under his command tended to be those who carried out his orders with precision, rather than men with their own minds.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 17, 2013

'By Bob Gourley Federal Computer Weekly, Government Computing News and SoftwareAG have crafted an event I believe every enterprise technologist in government should be tracking. It is the 21 November 2013 Efficient IT Modernization Strategies Summit , which will be held at the Grand Hyatt Washington. If you work in IT security, design, or strategy, or if you are responsible for ensuring technology aligns with business/mission objectives, you will want to be at this event.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 15, 2013

'For an industry consumed by the pursuit of electric power, Iceland presents almost the perfect profile. Iceland presents an interesting test of how far data centers will go for green energy, and the place of renewables in the site selection equation.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 16, 2013

'Future of government seems to be the topic of the moment. After my post yesterday on Citizen sourcing and the future of cities and last week on Four fundamental principles for crowdsourcing in government , I have to report about GitHub launching government.github.com. As it happens, in my recent keynote on A Future of Crowds: Implications for Government and Society , I discussed the issue of GitHub as a tool for crowdsourced government.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 15, 2013

'By now you may have heard of a new entrant into the Desktop-as-a-Service market, with VMware buying Desktone. While I applaud the move that will help mature the market , I have to add some sobriety to their party atmosphere. Technology alone does not sell product - especially where the Managed Service Provider (MSP) channel is involved. Putting it Bluntly - Support the Business!

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'By Bob Gourley If you are going to be in DC 7 Nov and are a technologist that fields solutions into federal agencies here is a great opportunity to dive into the in-memory capabilities of Enterprise Ehcache. This two hour workshop is a great way to accelerate your own technical understanding of this topic and that in return can help your agency better accomplish its mission.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 12, 2013

'The Week in Review: Electrical issues slow NSA data center, QTS Realty goes public in IPO, online poker offers upside for Nevada data centers, downtime at GigeNET, pros and cons of data bunkers.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 15, 2013

'As I noted last week in my post on Four fundamental principles for crowdsourcing in government , one of the most powerful applications of crowdsourcing is in government. PSFK has just launched a nice report and summary presentation on the future of cities, embedded below. The Future Of Cities from PSFK. The third section of the report covers Citizen Sourced aspects of the future of cities, including: - Crowd Planned.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'Caught this Goose after his bath. He was cleaning his feathers here, but looked like he was Camera Shy. Capturing with Canon 1D Mark IV 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.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 16, 2013

'By Bob Gourley Some things we all love about video: Video is easy to watch, everyone likes to click on the play button. Video is easy to share, especially YouTube video. Video can convey lots of info in a memorable way. We are working with one of the nation’s best video production teams, SecureNinjaTV , to capture some of the technologies of note that will be on the expo floor of the Third Annual FedCyber Summit.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 16, 2013

'What''s Apple building in Prineville, Oregon? Here''s a closer look at the progress on their new data center to support iTunes and the iCloud (with photos), as well as clues about the company''s future expansion plans.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 15, 2013

'When I was in Switzerland recently, esteemed colleague Gerd Leonhard and I recorded a number of video conversations, produced by Jonathan Marks. Following ones on Big Data , the future of privacy , and the future of Switzerland , here is our conversation on Key future trends. For more conversations about the future see Meeting of the Minds. After discussing some of the major trends, we go on to discuss our own preferred futures.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2013

'Yesterday I thoroughly enjoyed an opportunity to participate in the DorobekINSIDER LIVE edition on cloud computing. The conversation was both lively and informative. Joining me on the show were: Jim Sweeney, author of the book Get Your Head in the Cloud: Unlocking the Mystery for Public Sector and President and CTO of V3 Systems. Patrick Fiorenza, Senior Research Analyst, GovLoop.

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Virtualized Greek

OCTOBER 17, 2013

'I like Windows along with XenDesktop and VMware View. On the surface they are all fine products. But it is official; I’m so over the concept of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) because I’m so over Windows. Maybe it is the fact that I’ve been using a Mac for the past several months and I no longer rely on Windows for my day-to-day home computing.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 14, 2013

'Although we’re creating efficiency around the modern data center – as technology evolves new hardware requirements also need more power. Learn about high-density power deployments.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2013

'In this post, I’ll share with you some Puppet code that you can include in your manifests to install Open vSwitch (OVS) packages on Ubuntu. This post, along with a number of others (like using Puppet for Ubuntu Cloud Archive support or using Puppet to configure an Apt proxy ) stems from my work on building a new home lab in which I’ll be doing some OpenStack and NSX testing.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 18, 2013

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” - Albert Einstein Knowledge is just like any useful, resourceful information available with you in your brain instead of in the books, pen, drive or some other form….acquired formally, informally, generally etc. Wisdom is the transformation of YOU into “A REAL YOURSELF” for which your knowledge may help you sometimes facilitates too, but you need to have an inner drive to demonstrate wisdom.

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Virtualized Greek

OCTOBER 17, 2013

'Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a challenging undertaking even before you introduce disruptive service models such as Cloud computing into the mix. The theory of PPM is simple. The idea is to develop a governance model around the selection and funding of projects. The projects that are in alignment with organizational business and financial goals are green lighted to start or continue.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 15, 2013

'It’s not every day that you see a data center for a major financial services company rolling through the streets of a major city. This video from IO provides a look at some of the company’s modules moving through the streets of Singapore, where IO has opened a new facility in which the.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2013

'Today (October 17) is the debut of the “real” Windows 8 , thank goodness. And a perfect time for reflections on my love/hate affair with Microsoft. I love Microsoft. I envy Steve Ballmer’s hairline. Microsoft Office is the greatest thing since the invention of the personal computer. I love Office so much I refuse to buy a tablet computer (iPad, Galaxy, Note, Surface RT) because almost none of those plastic/glass doo-dads will run my favorite programs – Word, Excel, Power

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

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Virtualized Greek

OCTOBER 14, 2013

'The classic debate on certification vs. college degree. I talk about my path to IT and advice on the decision.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index” anticipates the make-up of the world’s Internet traffic will shift towards traffic associated with cloud consumer and business applications, which is expected to constitute the majority of workloads starting next year.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 17, 2013

'The OpenStack Havana release had more than 910 contributors and delivers nearly 400 new features. Two major new features are Metering & Monitoring (Ceilometer) and Orchestration (Heat). A Red Hat Survey recently finds promising signs for Openstack enterprise adoption.

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