CTOvision

OCTOBER 12, 2015

CTOvision has just released our latest white paper projecting the future of seven major trends in information technology. You can remember these seven major IT megatrends by the mnemonic acronym Cambric. Cambric stands for: C loud Computing. A rtificial Intelligence. M obility. B ig Data. R obotics. I nternet of Things. C yberSecurity. Advances in these seven technologies are closely interrelated.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 15, 2015

A good power and cooling strategy is no longer enough to maximize efficiency in today’s modern data center. A future in which all devices and networks are connected requires data center design elements that can evolve with the Internet of Everything and the related demands of hyper-connectivity.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’m currently reading Brett Steenbarger’s “ Trading Psychology 2.0: From Best Practices to Best Processes.” I’m a fan of Dr. Steenbarger’s work and bought his new book as soon as it was released. While this book is targeted at traders and investors, there’s a great deal of knowledge that can be gleaned from it that can be applied to many other aspects of your personal life as well as business.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Gartner filled their opening keynote with lots of advice for the Digital CIO. As I've been saying on this blog for some time (see posts on agile thinking, cultural practices, and program management) digital transformation is not a bunch of business driven projects that have a beginning and an end. Transformation requires significant culture changes in how enterprises work internally, how they.

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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 12, 2015

Currently, the NSA’s Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) only uses approved Suite B cryptographic algorithms, specified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to protect classified and unclassified National Security Systems (NSS). The Suite B algorithms have served as a method to ensure the security of classified and unclassified information through public networks.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As much as 85 percent of data center downtime is due to a problem with batteries. New technologies are available for putting together an effective battery strategy that combines monitoring and predictive analytics. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Younger workers tend to make more mistakes Image Credit: Hussain Isa Alderazi. As the person in the CIO position, I’m pretty sure that by now you’ve come to realize that not all of the workers at your company are the same. It turns out that some of these workers need a little bit of extra help from your IT department. You might instinctively think that I’m talking about the company’s older workers.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Datameer kicked off their first Big Data & Brews on the East Coast at Strata + Hadoop World New York. Datameer sat down with Tony Baer, principle analyst at Ovum Research, to discuss where Spark fits into the Hadoop ecosystem. Watch Part 1 of Big Data & Brews with Tony Baer here. TRANSCRIPT: Andrew: All right. Here we are at another Strata Plus Hadoop World.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 14, 2015

DCIM has become the de facto platform for reducing data center operations’ costs as well as improving availability to higher levels through correlations of data coming from multiple devices. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 15, 2015

How important is managing culture change in a digital transformation? By the size of the "packed room" at Gartner's session on "How to create a culture that is ready for anything", at least CIO have recognized how critical it is to either own or be a part of an organization's cultural changes. Here are some highlights from this and other sessions related to cultural changes: Culture change.

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The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Grow Your CIO Career. Just becoming your company’s CIO is not enough. Once you reach this lofty point, you are going to have to take on the responsibility of growing your career so that it can truly become the challenging opportunity that you’ve been seeking. The good news is that this can be done. The bad news is that it’s never easy.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 16, 2015

We have a limited number of slots available for CTOvision readers to attend a special 28 Oct 2015 discussion at Verisign that will include a tour of the Registry Operations Command Center (ROCC). This high tech watchfloor is critical to the smooth operations of the global Internet, playing a key role in the now over 18 years of continuous availability of the.com infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Regardless of the complexity or a database administrator's skill level, these performance tuning tips will serve as a step-by-step guide to solving MySQL performance problems and help alleviate the pain points that often accompany performance tuning. Read More.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has been around for years in U.S. workplaces and even though it's become a fixture at many companies, some IT shops are still coming to grips with it. In hard numbers, the prevalence of BYOD in the workplace is difficult to measure. Researchers offer a wide variety of statistics. Research firm Strategy Analytics, for example, said three-quarters of business smartphones and tablets shipped in the second quarter in North America were slated to wind up in the

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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Today, Dell as in Michael Dell and his corporation Dell along with partner Silver Lake investment announced a $67B USD deal that they are acquiring EMC along with their stake in VMware which will stay an independently public traded company. Dell brings strength in small and medium-mid market strength and supplier to cloud and other managed service providers, Dell financing combines with EMC strength and enterprise portfolio.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 15, 2015

For our readers in the DC area, please consider joining us for a breakfast discussion on empowering cloud utilization in the federal market on 22 Oct 2015. To register contact us here or reply to any of our newsletters and ask for more info. Details below: This executive breakfast will be held at the Tower Club in Tysons starting at 8:00 AM. We’ll be talking about how to use cloud bursting to add additional computing resources to your environment, which is a good way to get started with the Clo

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Hybrid cloud offering now includes Google Cloud DNS, new vCloud Director, vCloud Air monitoring, better identity management, expanded support for vSphere Integrated Containers Read More.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2015

In this post, I’ll show you how to use Docker Machine in conjunction with VMware Photon OS Technical Preview 2 (aka “TP2”). Given that Photon was designed to host containers, this is—for the most part—pretty straightforward. There are a couple of glitches that I need to point out, though, that might hang up new users. First off, kudos to Fabio Rapposelli for taking some time at VMworld to help me work through the details.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Change is simply a shift from the “Old Way - Chaos - New Way.” Simplicity is a behavioral attitude to see things as and what and where they are and be content and cool as it is. Philosophically, simplicity is the source of complication, and complications are the source of simplicity. Often human cannot live life with simplicity and keep making it complicated.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Everyone lives in their own world, surrounded by familiar systems and processes. That is their enclave. Groups of people and systems work in concert with each other using some agreed language and standards to form another level of enclave. Organizations have their span of operations that form enclaves of enclaves. Organizations work with other organizations using some agreed approach, forming yet another level of enclave.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Commercial real estate brokers see activity pick up outside of Silicon Valley and New York Read More.

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CIO Rant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Tied up in meetings all day? Every day? If so, you are failing – somewhere – and may not know it. Talking with a consultant years ago, he told me that “time is my only inventory” Essentially, he was saying that “time is money” Over the years since, I have considered different ways of looking at this concept. Since we are all here for a finite period, you could look at it as a statement that recognizes that time is an asset that is in limited supply.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Transformation is robust and sustainable - it requires a lasting mind shift. Change is defined in the Oxford dictionary as "substitution of one for another," and transformation is defined as "to CHANGE the character or form." Transformation., the word itself is the first indicator, transform.The definition of transformation in the dictionary is, "to change (something) completely," so it’s much more than renewal, its rebirth.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 15, 2015

New research with the Aberdeen Group highlights how network complexity is adding cost and increasing risk. Date: Tuesday, November 3. Time: 12:00p - 1:00p CT. Register >> Network firewalls have long been established as the ubiquitous first line of defense for every organization’s network security strategy. But the evolving needs of the enterprise have dramatically changed the make-up – and complexity – of network infrastructures.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Breaks ground on future site of its second massive data center campus in Ashburn Read More.

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Nutanix

OCTOBER 15, 2015

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

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The best performance management system needs to tie everyone in the organization to company’s profit and also company’s rewards. People are always the most invaluable asset in organizations, and Talent Management is one of the most important, but challenging disciplines to accomplish. Talent management is studying people performance via assessments, utility analysis, and other methods which help companies evaluate the value they are getting from their people.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Datameer, the proven self-service big data insights platform for rapid data discovery, announced at the Strata + Hadoop Conference a go-to-market collaboration with Microsoft. Microsoft will now offer Datameer's big data analytics on Azure HDInsight, in Q4 2015. "We believe that Hadoop-as-a-Service will lower the barrier to entry for business users who want to work with data," said Stefan Groschupf , CEO of Datameer.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Startup’s technology to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration through Red Hat’s CloudForms portal Read More.

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Nutanix

OCTOBER 15, 2015

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

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