CTOvision

APRIL 28, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. For a decade now the cyber security community has been treated to important strategic context coordinated by Verizon in their Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The information in the report can help drive strategic planning for enterprise technologists and members of the enterprise cyber security team and it is well worth a read by any CTO, CIO, CISO and most other members of enterprise technology teams.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 28, 2014

'Facebook hasn''t even finished its first massive data center building in Altoona, Iowa. But the social networking company is ready to begin construction on a second 476,000 square foot building. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 28, 2014

'I should have written this post 5-10 years ago when I was an expert working with search engines and text data. Better late then never, and hopefully this will help some of you that are starting out looking at solutions to better store, search, and data mine text documents. . . So here are some things not to do (or avoid doing) with unstructured text Big Data: Develop home grown scripts to.

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SPF13

MAY 1, 2014

'Viper is a complete configuration solution. Designed to work within an application to handle file based configuration and seamlessly marry that with command line flags which can also be used to control application behavior. Why Viper? When building a modern application you don’t want to have to worry about configuration file formats, you want to focus on building awesome software.

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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

APRIL 27, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Everyone with any history in or around government has stories they can tell about federal government procurements. It really is a different beast. There are many reasons why. Perhaps the first 535 reasons are the 535 voting members of the US Congress that have the funding, oversight and legislative powers for how government works. Name another organization in the world that has a board of directors with 535 voting members?

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 26, 2014

'Microsoft plans a major expansion of its data center campus in Wyoming, investing an additional $274 million to build its cloud infrastructure in Cheyenne. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

APRIL 28, 2014

'Last week I shared the real-world story of the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium’s use of data and analytics to change the way they managed and operated their business. This week, I want to share a similar story of a company using data to better understand their customers. This week’s data story finds us taking a look at a very well-known brand: Macy’s.

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CTOvision

APRIL 26, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. At this link and embedded below is a video from Samsung which captures the new features of Samsung’s well engineered approach to enhancing mobile security. Look for my cameo appearance at 11:55 where say something I believe, but which must be totally obvious to you good readers. The real reason to watch is to get an overview of their well engineered approach and how it has evolved over time to the benefit of enterprise users.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 29, 2014

'What will the data center look like in 2025? An Emerson survey suggests we''ll see smaller data centers, higher densities, and more use of renewable energy. Read More.

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Mick's IT Blog

MAY 2, 2014

'This script will enable or disable Internet Explorer Active X components. All you have to do is pass the user friendly name of the component, component''s GUID, and the flag. The app will verify if the change actually takes place and returns a success or failure status. You can download this from here.EXAMPLE EnableIEActiveXControl "Application Name" "GUID" "Value" EnableIEActiveXControl "Flash for IE" "{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}" "0x00000000" #> #Declare Global Memory Set-Variab

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Eric D. Brown

APRIL 27, 2014

'Shadow IT: Far Bigger, Less Manageable And More Important Than You Think. Quote : Even when lines of business initiate technology purchases, it is increasingly including IT. So for the CIO worried about Shadow IT and the developers that foster it, don’t. Even with the rise of DevOps, those developers more often than not are happy to collaborate with IT in the ongoing maintenance of applications; they simply don’t want to be blocked from starting on such projects.

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CTOvision

APRIL 30, 2014

'April 23rd was an anticipated day for Wall Street – the day of Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) second quarter earnings report. Although some consider the Apple bubble somewhat passed (because so many of us have already purchased iPhones and iPads), the company’s profits and revenues still matter to millions of people; with a market cap hovering around half a trillion dollars, many investors have much at stake with the tech giant.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 28, 2014

'Harmonizing private and public cloud deployments allows companies to reap the full benefits of adding a public cloud, whilst avoiding the negative impact of multiple environments and additional connectivity costs, writes Robert Jenkins of CloudSigma. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 27, 2014

'One of the interesting things in enterprise storage has been the FUD around iSCSI vs. Fiber Channel (FC). iSCSI has consistently been looked upon as the lesser option of the two storage transports.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

'Last Wednesday, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret) John T. Brennan, Interoperability Clearinghouse (ICH) Executive Director, kicked off the Agile Cloud collaboration. This industry-wide effort is targeted at developing an open and inclusive cloud service brokerage environment capable of rapidly provisioning innovative technologies to the US Government on a fee for service basis.

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CTOvision

MAY 1, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Friends from IO have alerted me to a job search they have underway and I wanted to share this with you. If you are, or know of anyone who is, interested in this position (and if you can meet most of their qualifications) please connect with IO right away, they want to talk with you like right away. To apply and get more info see: [link].

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 1, 2014

'OnApp has steadily been building a force of cloud providers leveraging its cloud platform. OnApp is now available on IBM''s SoftLayer infrastructure and is also available in the newly launched IBM Cloud marketplace. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 29, 2014

'The hyper-converged infrastructure has two completely different ends of the spectrum when it comes to potential end-users. An example of two different systems positioned at different markets is a comparison between Nutanix and Scale Computing.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 1, 2014

'In this post, I’m going to provide a quick introduction to OpenStack Heat, the orchestration service that allows you to spin up multiple instances, logical networks, and other cloud services in an automated fashion. Note that this is only an introductory post—I’m not an expert on Heat, but I did want to share at least some basic information to help others get started as well.

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CTOvision

APRIL 30, 2014

'By ShannonPerry. For websites with lots of Internet traffic, turning visits into profits with successful advertising is immensely important. For a while now, online advertising has meant more than just sending thousands of messages to unknown addresses – advertisements now target specific individuals with specific products, complete with colors, animations, and helpful links.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 30, 2014

'It’s hard for one company to say its data centres are better than the competition’s down the road -- but the real differentiator is the people inside, writes Mike Bennett of CenturyLink Technologies. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 28, 2014

'A good question to ask after coming from the Software Defined Data Center Symposium 2014 hosted by the fine folks at Tech Field Day, has the industry outside of VMware embraced the idea of SDDC.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

'Reader Brian Markussen—with whom I had the pleasure to speak at the Danish VMUG in Copenhagen earlier this month—brought to my attention an issue between VMware vSphere’s health check feature and Cisco UCS when using Cisco’s VIC cards. His findings, confirmed by VMware support and documented in this KB article , show that the health check feature doesn’t work properly with Cisco UCS and the VIC cards.

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CTOvision

APRIL 27, 2014

'We have recently written about the release of Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN ) Fire TV – the world’s largest Internet retailer is continuing to develop hardware, providing users with more devices to access its troves of music, shows, games, and movies. An April article from the Wall Street Journal has revealed that Amazon intends add smartphones to the mix, with plans to unveil the device June and begin shipping in the second half of this year.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 28, 2014

'Global IT firm Dimension Data announced that it has acquired Valencia, California IT company Nexus, and plans to quadruple its data center business to $4 billion in the next five years. Read More.

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Future of CIO

APRIL 30, 2014

CREATIVITY has to become the philosophy, and part of DNA in an organization. Today’s digital workforce is multigenerational, multicultural and multitasking; today’s digital workplace is always on, always connected, you can work anytime and anywhere, with more seamlessly cross-functional collaboration and cross-geographic interaction. But more strategically, how to build a creative working environment to inspire innovation and encourage creative problems solving in business?

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Scott Lowe

MAY 2, 2014

'In an earlier post, I provided an introduction to OpenStack Heat , and provided an example Heat template that launched two instances with a logical network and a logical router. Here I am going to provide another view of a Heat template that does the same thing, but uses YAML and the HOT format instead of JSON and the CFN format. Here’s the full template (click here if the code box below isn’t showing up): I won’t walk through the whole template again, but rather just talk bri

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CTOvision

APRIL 27, 2014

'Wearables – trendy wristwatch-like devices that monitor anything from heartbeats to footsteps – have been covered here before. Some wearables sync with your smartphone; some wearables have colorful displays, and some wearables vibrate at you if you remain idle for too long. Companies as small as startups and as large as Samsung have gotten into the mix, due to the large size of the anticipated market for the devices.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 2, 2014

'The National Security Agency’s Utah data center using much less water than the U.S. spy agency pays for most likely indicates that the facility is not running at full capacity and that it is taking advantage of economization. Read More.

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Future of CIO

APRIL 29, 2014

You have to think in terms of both 'tangible' and 'intangible' for either software development or problem-solving. The ultimate goal of software development is business problem-solving, there is much more needs to be done to frame the business issue and then provide methods which can be used for problem-solving. Before determining if you need a solution, you should decide if there is a problem.

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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.