CTOvision

OCTOBER 10, 2014

'If you have worked at the nexus of cyber security and policy you no doubt know Jody Westby. She speaks at cyber security events, writes white papers that are well reasoned and helpful, and provides context broadly to the community via periodic posts at Forbes (for example, see this great piece: [link] jodywestby/2014/01/20/dont-be- a-cyber-target-a-primer-for- boards-and-senior-management/ ).

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'Google will invest an additional $100-200 million on a third phase in its Taiwan data center, the local Economic Daily News Reports. Google continues to spend record amounts on its data center infrastructure Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'CIOs need to get their team members to take a chill pill Image Credit. Isn’t it the dream of every CIO to have a fully committed team? A team that understands the importance of information technology and what you are trying to accomplish as a team, has fully bought in to that dream, and is aggressively working to achieve your goals? It turns out that there is a dark side to this dream.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'How do you manage meetings so that they are productive and complete with documented decisions and prioritized follow up tasks? This is a big, but an important topic. A lot of people''s time and a corporation''s spend is burned in meetings, yet most people can recount the bad meetings that were a waste of time versus others that had tangible outcomes.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Editor’s note: This post by Invincea CEO Anup Ghosh first appeared at LinkedIn. We knew this would be of interest to you and posted it here with the author’s permission.-bg. I’ll say it up front, your security program does not work because it is based on three common myths we hold as unquestionable truths in enterprise security: Myth 1: We can patch our way to security.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 9, 2014

'Amid price declines, Bitcoin miners see a future shaped by transaction fees and a more enterprise-friendly mining data center network Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2014

'In order to be a successful CIO, you need to know how to work with the rest of the business. Get the book that tells you how to do this: Click here for the Paperback, Kindle, or Audiobook Download. Click here for the epub, mobi, pdf, rtf, lrf, pdb, txt, or html.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'CTOlabs.com , the research arm of CTOvision.com , has just released a White Paper for the federal technology community titled: Enhancing Functionality and Security of Enterprise Data Holdings: Examining new, mission-enabling design patterns made possible by the Cloudera-Intel partnership. The paper captures design considerations for enterprise technologists that flow from the engineering work both Cloudera and Intel have been putting into both open source technologies and hardware design.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'It is time for businesses to reevaluate their traditional, capital-intensive data centers in order to embrace the new data center model that’s taking shape in the cloud, writes Rick Braddy of Softnas. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 10, 2014

' This post is brought to you by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP’s Make It Matter. The business world today is one of constant change and growth. No where is that more visible than within the data center. Today, the CIO and IT group are working harder than ever to keep their data center running efficiently and optimally. Not only is IT working to keep their data center running to cover business needs for today, but they’re also tasked with delivering delivering new technologies and system

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Open Source

Future of CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Governance refers to principles, direction, and guidance. Governance is like steering wheel, keeps their business toward the right direction, IT governance plays a significant role in setting guidance and principles to manage business’s information system which is the lifeblood of today’s always-on and hyper-connected digital business. IT governance is converging with business governance, because nowadays IT is business, and business’s IT, but why is IT governance so difficult to implement?

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'American interest in online privacy and surveillance programs has jumped since Edward Snowden’s revelations about digital government surveillance in the United States. Deteriorating public relations have plagued intelligence agencies that have been identified as participating in the mass surveillance phenomenon, and many tech companies have already responded to their customers’ concerns with more encryption or more privacy features.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'As data centers become more dynamic and difficult to manage, and as data workflows become less linear, companies are faced with a new reality, writes Casey Burns of Quantum. Their deduplication strategies need a reboot. Read More.

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Nutanix

OCTOBER 9, 2014

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Project Management

Future of CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Telescope oversights the big picture; and microscope amplifies the important details. People have cognitive differences: some are like a telescope with nature big picture thinking, they can look forward and think long-term; others are like microscopes; they look inwards. They are good at analyzing and breaking things down into their component part, and they are good at details; there's no such thing as one thinking always be superior to the other one, it all depends on circumstance and situation

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 9, 2014

'MC10 is a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that has been testing computers that attach to skin and look like little wearable stickers. The device is intended to include: wireless antennas, temperature and heart-rate sensors, as well as a tiny battery. Our devices are not like wearables that are used today, where people wear them for a little bit and then throw them into a drawer,” said Scott Pomerantz, the chief executive of MC10.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'This month at the Orlando Data Center World conference, Craig Finch, Principal Consultant, Rootwork InfoTech, will participate on a panel called,"Open Compute: Not Just Hyperscale Anymore." Data Center Knowledge spoke with him about Open Compute hardware in the enterprise space. Read More.

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Nutanix

OCTOBER 7, 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 5, 2014

Imagination is more important than knowledge, knowledge has a limitation, imagination encircles the world! -Albert Einstein Imagination is the ability to form new images and sensations in the mind that are not perceived through senses such as sight, hearing, or other senses. Imagination helps make knowledge applicable in solving problems and is fundamental to integrating experience and the learning process.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 9, 2014

'Enterprise IT and cyber security professionals should all track the recent news of Symantec splitting into two publicly traded firms. Before giving our cut, review the official press release here: Symantec Announces New Strategy to Fuel Growth and Plans to Separate into Two Public Industry-Leading Technology Companies. Separation to Increase Focus and Strategic Flexibility for both Security and Information Management Businesses.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'Over the years, technology vendors have worked diligently to build scalable systems with flexible payment options, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni. Because of this, Enterprise IT has been able to break free from ownership when it comes to various technology solutions. Read More.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'Today, I’m thrilled to announce several major features that significantly enhance the development experience on DynamoDB. We are introducing native support for document model like JSON into DynamoDB, the ability to add / remove global secondary indexes, adding more flexible scaling options, and increasing the item size limit to 400KB. These improvements have been sought by many applications developers, and we are happy to be bringing them to you.

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Case Study

Future of CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2014

" Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. " -Norman Schwarzkopf Character sustains leaders about who you really are, and strategy pushes business to concern where you want to go. Do you agree with this quote? The character is a great beginning when the strategy is lacking.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'FedCyber is an annual cybersecurity event hosted by Matt Devost & Bob Gourley that brings together several hundred attendees to advance the dialogue on critical enterprise and federal government challenges. FedCyber will be held on 5 Nov 2014 at the Tysons Corner Marriott. This is a great opportunity to work directly with peers in the federal technology ecosystem to enhance the cyber security of your organization and to share lessons learned.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'The global average internet connection speed increased by 21 percent from the first to the second quarter of 2014, according to Akamai’s newly released State of the Internet Report. Read More.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'Welcome to Technology Short Take #45. As usual, I’ve gathered a collection of links to various articles pertaining to data center-related technologies for your enjoyment. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. Cormac Hogan has a list of a few useful NSX troubleshooting tips. If you’re not really a networking pro and need a “gentle” introduction to VXLAN, this post might be a good place to start.

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Open Source

Future of CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2014

A benchmarking Mindset is not Equal to"Bean Counting" mind. Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and performance metrics to industry bests or best practices from other companies. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time, and cost. From thought leadership perspective, a benchmarking mindset does not just focus on “bean counting,” it is a problem-solving mind that can be strategic, interpretive, analytic and progressive.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 9, 2014

'There is little reliable reporting on what is happening in North Korea right now. But if you have not been tracking the news here are a few items of interest: Kim Jong Un hasn''t been seen publicly since 3 Sep 2014. This is not normal. This is fueling speculation that there has been a coup or assassination or that he is in hiding out of fear of the above.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'Search-as-a-service startup takes data center space in San Jose to improve speed on West Coast Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 10, 2014

'I captured this Gazelle at the Minnesota State Zoo a few weeks ago. Captured with a Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L handheld. 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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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.