CTOvision
DECEMBER 10, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. We have all been watching the growing cyber threat. Press reports on attacks are numbing and hard to put in context. Every attack seems more significant than the one before. What can be done? Our new book, The Cyber Threat , hits this issue head on. This book was made for technology and business executives who know they must mitigate a growing threat.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 9, 2014
'HPC experts say adoption of liquid cooling will increase over the next three to five years, as data-crunching requirements of scientific research push workloads past the boundaries of air cooling Read More.
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Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 9, 2014
'The 2014 CIO State of the CIO Survey has some interesting data related to the role of the CIO. One of the interesting pieces of that survey relates to the idea that CIO’s are feeling as though they are being pushed aside. Nearly 30 percent of CIO’s reportedly feel ‘sidelined in their businesses as they watch shadow IT increase.’. My instinct tells me that many of those 30 percent of CIO’s are struggling today because they haven’t taken the step forward to drive innovation within the organizatio
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 10, 2014
'Networking is all about meeting new people Image Credit: Freelancers Union. As CIO you know that despite the importance of information technology, networking is so much more than just connecting servers with cables. It turns out that it has a lot to do with meeting new people and expanding your social network. This is valuable stuff. Now the big question is how to go about doing it correctly…?
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
DECEMBER 12, 2014
'By Katie Kennedy. Every year for 19 Years Symantec has produced an Internet Security Threat Report, capturing insights which can inform defenses. Their April 2014 report has proven to be particularly insightful, foreshadowing many of the events seen from that month to today. For example, in 2012, there were 156 major data breaches increasing to 253 in 2013.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 12, 2014
'With high profile 100 percent renewable energy commitments on the part of Apple, Google, Microsoft, what is the colocation provider''s role when it comes to renewable energy? Read More.
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Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 9, 2014
'What is ITIL & how can it benefit your organization? Learn the answers to these questions plus gain an understanding of the ITIL Service Lifecycle in this video. Download a free white paper & learn more about ITIL training at [link] ( This content is being syndicated through multiple channels. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of GovCloud Network, GovCloud Network Partners or any other corporation or organization.) ?
CTOvision
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'By John Scott. For Want of a Patch. For want of a patch the component was lost. For want of a component the stack was lost. For want of a stack the system was lost. For want of a system the message was lost. For want of a message the cyberbattle was lost. For want of a battle the enterprise was lost. And all for the want of a software patch. As the old proverb reminds us, logistics is important: most battles are over before they’ve begun due to having or not having a solid logistics tail.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 10, 2014
'Building and managing data center infrastructure represent large amounts of investments, writes Santiago Bernal of Microsoft. Knowing if and when you need additional capacity can translate into a significant improvement to your data center portfolio. Read More.
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 9, 2014
'For the last few years as CIO of McGraw Hill Construction, I''ve had four relatively strange items on my desk that I''ve kept around for special reasons. A few people on my staff have some understanding on why I kept them, but few have asked about them. I think everyone working in IT might have some interest in the stories behind these items as they represent different leadership principals.
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Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'By Jodi Kohut For the uninitiated, FedRAMP is the Federal Risk Authorizationand Management Program , a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. Implemented to support the Administration’s “Cloud First” policy, some have pointed to FedRAMP as a great model for commercial industry’s adoption of cloud as well.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'By SeanLawson. In recent weeks, the American casual dining restaurant chain TGI Fridays has gotten a lot of buzz as a result of news that it would deploy a mistletoe drone in its restaurants. The idea was that the mistletoe-carrying drone would fly around the restaurant and hover above unsuspecting customers, thereby forcing them to kiss. All of this would be recorded by the drone’s onboard camera, of course.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 11, 2014
'Data center managers are faced with planning for the future and the mandate to change their current rate of spending on equipment and operations, writes Rich Gadomski of Fujifilm Recording Media. One area of focus has been the massive energy consumption of data centers and the impact of storage.
Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 6, 2014
'Just sharing this with my readers… I have uploaded my Dissertation Defense slides on Slideshare. If you don’t recall, the title of my dissertation is: “Analysis of Twitter Messages for Sentiment and Insight for use in Stock Market Decision Making.” You can view the slides below or go over to slideshare to view them there.
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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.
Mick's IT Blog
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'This module is designed to make automating the installation of software a breeze. It also provides logging that makes it easy to check and see if there were errors during an installation. The logging has been designed so that there is an installation log file that records all steps in the installation, an application log file that the installer creates, and finally a build.log file that records if the application was successfully installed.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'By SeanLawson. Fears related to drone safety, in particular concerns about so-called “near misses” with manned aircraft, have gotten a lot of attention in recent weeks. More detailed analysis , however, has shown those fears to have been greatly exaggerated. Nonetheless, they have resulted in one senator’s call for an expansion of the FAA’s drone ban to include not just commercial drones but all private drones.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 9, 2014
'Hosted private cloud provider''s most advanced data center to date is in Digital Realty''s Franklin Park campus Read More.
Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'I just read a great article over on the Mckinsey & Company blog titled “ Building a bridge from CMO to CIO ” where Matt Jauchius, EVP and CMO of Nationwide, describes his approach to working with the CIO of the company. I encourage you to jump over there and read the article…there’s some great advice to help the CMO and CIO work together.
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Mick's IT Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2014
'Here is a script I have written that will replicate the permissions between two folders. Execute the script and you will be prompted for the source and destination folders. It will first parse through and set folder permissions and then parse through file permissions. You can download the script here. cls $Errors = 0 $SourceDrive = Read-Host ''Enter source folder'' $DestinationDrive = Read-Host ''Enter destination folder'' #Match capitalization with directories $TempDrive = Get-Item -Path $Sour
The Investing Edge
DECEMBER 11, 2014
'With last month’s sold out AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas and the jam-packed media frenzy around cloud industry announcements, it’s clear that “the cloud” continues to drive enormous PR and marketing spend. Conversations with IT decision makers across companies large and small, within many different industries, indicate that the level of adoption advanced significantly in 2014.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'IT organizations face increasing pressure to move faster to support business initiatives, writes Alex Henthorn-Iwane of QualiSystems. How can they leverage infrastructure orchestration to support DevOps initiatives in a sustainable fashion? Read More.
Storage IO Blog
DECEMBER 10, 2014
'Despite being declared dead for decades, and will probably stay being declared dead for years to come, magnetic tape is in fact still alive being used by some organizations, granted its role is changing while the technology still evolves.
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Mick's IT Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2014
'Recently, we upgraded our print servers and needed to reinstall all of the printers. This script will uninstall all printers. I deployed this script out and had it run as the user and a GPO reinstalled the printer with the new network location. You can download the script from here: UninstallPrinters.ps1.EXAMPLE powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -file UninstallPrinters.ps1 #> cls $Printers = Get-WmiObject Win32_Printer $EXE = $env:windir + "system32printui.exe" $PrintUI = "/dn /n " Fore
Future of CIO
DECEMBER 7, 2014
The organizations have to manage GRC as a business discipline more holistically. If the modern organization is like a vehicle, then, governance is like a steering wheel; risk management could be a brake pad, and compliance is the set of traffic rules, in order to drive smoothly, what shall you implement first? governance, risk or compliance? Governance as 'Guiding and Directing' - and given this understanding, you should start with a framework of Governance that sits squarely at the board level,
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 9, 2014
'IT operations management based on a collection of limited function and non-integrated tools lacks the agility, automation, and intelligence required to maintain stability in today’s dynamic data centers, writes Sasha Gilenson of Evolven. Read More.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
DECEMBER 9, 2014
'Seattle Police with Vievu Video Camera. (This post originally appeared in Crosscut here. This version is more expanded and detailed.). President Obama is redirecting at least $75 million in federal funding to buy body-worn video cameras for up to 50,000 police officers. This initiative is driven partially by recent shootings of unarmed citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City.
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Nutanix
DECEMBER 11, 2014
The global community has spoken with thousands of votes to determine the Grand Prize recipient of Web-Scale Wish, and we are thrilled to announce that CLASS Ltd., has garnered the most community votes and will receive a Web-Scale Datacenter Makeover in 2015!
Future of CIO
DECEMBER 11, 2014
The patterns are defined as "solutions of problems in a context" with a body of "descriptions of forces." A pattern language is a method of describing good d esign practices within a field of expertise. The term was coined by architect Christopher Alexander and popularized by his book A Pattern Language. Advocates of this design approach claim that ordinary people can use it to successfully solve very large, complex design problems.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'It’s time to look at powerful, modular, solutions which can break all the norms around high performance computing and data gathering. Read More.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 11, 2014
'Virtual network overlay software designed for multitenant environments Read More.
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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