CTOvision

MAY 28, 2014

'By Eugene Borukhovich. Verner Vinge, in his 1986 sci-fi novel, Marooned in Realtime , explored his ideas about exponentially accelerating technology. The novel was set in, “a world of rapidly accelerating progress leading to the emergence of more and more sophisticated technologies separated by shorter and shorter time intervals, until a point beyond human comprehension is reached.” Certainly, his vision in 1986 is almost a reality today, but with the hope that we will never reach b

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 28, 2014

'Google is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to wring even more efficiency out of its mighty data centers. The humans remain in charge, but Google expects to reach new frontiers in efficiency in its server farms. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

MAY 29, 2014

'I just finished reading a report from SMB Group titled “ Vendor Strategies to Bring Game-Changing Technology Trends to SMBs ”. The report is a pay-per-access report but I received a copy from IBM to review and I’m happy I got to see it. The report describes research performed by SMB Group into how small and medium businesses (SMB) are viewing and using technology in their business.

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Mick's IT Blog

MAY 29, 2014

'This script will enable WOL and test to make sure it has been set. It will return whether it was a success or failure both to a log file and the screen. This script was written to also be incorporated with my new build logging process that I am getting ready to release soon. If you do not want this, just delete the buildlog and sequence variables out, along with their use in the ProcessLogFile function.EXAMPLE #> #Declare Global Memory Set-Variable -Name AppLog -Scope Global -Force Set-Varia

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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

MAY 26, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. This is the second installment in our series flowing from recent dialog with Marc Andreessen. The first post reviewed some likely scenarios of the tech enabled environment of 2030 and some foundational considerations regarding converged cyber-physical systems all citizens will have access to (see the first post here ). In this post we provide some of Marc’s views around the nature of government services in the near future.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 29, 2014

'Vendor attempts to capture share of rapidly growing cloud market, but recent revelations of NSA''s alleged tampering with exported IT gear give foreign manufacturing a whole new meaning. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 29, 2014

'Congratulations to my friends at "On The FrontLines Magazine" for an EXCELLENT presentation of important operational and managerial cloud computing transition lessons. This issues showcases cloud computing leaders from government and the private sector that share their views on this critical topic. A few of the educational gems enclosed in this 20 PAGE ISSUE: Matt Goodrich, FedRAMP Program Manager, GSA - “The first one is security is largely not a technical issue.

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CTOvision

MAY 30, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. DigitalGlobe is widely known as a leading provider of commercial high resolution imagery from space. Its constellation of 5 satellites has generated a 60PB archive of imagery that is approaching 5B square kilometers and is in a position to precisely document global change to meet the needs of defense, energy, agriculture, and NGO customers.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 30, 2014

'C7 Data Centers and Server Farm Realty take on customers that pay for data center space in Bitcoin. Both providers believe the digital currency is here to stay. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

MAY 27, 2014

'There are many challenges facing the IT function within the midsize organization. Actually, there are many challenges facing the IT function within all organizations but there’s a particular challenge facing the smaller organizations. The ultimate challenge for small and midsize organizations is finding the right mix of people and technologies for the things the organization needs to do.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MAY 28, 2014

'If There's A Parade, Then It Must Be Labor Day! In the U.S. it’s the week of the Memorial Day holiday (on Monday). Since a lot of you will be making the most of this 3-day weekend, I’m going to join you and take the week off. Enjoy your holiday and we’ll pick our discussions up again next week, same place, same time! - Dr. Jim Anderson.

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CTOvision

MAY 28, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. An Essential Starter Kit for Any CIO Considering the Internet of Things or Software Companies Needing a Jumpstart. Reston, VA, May 27, 2014 – Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today unveiled its Internet of Things (IoT) Solution Accelerator, a tightly-bundled set of smart tools that help business leaders gain actionable insights from different, disparate data sources in real-time enabling them to make better business decisions.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 29, 2014

'With its new business solutions suite, the company shakes up its traditional enterprise IT business model even further and admits it is not doing so without risk. Read More.

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A CIO's Voice

MAY 25, 2014

'Sitting on the opposite end on the board room table, CIOs need to understand the type of organization they will be joining. Having been on the other end several times, it is important to get a sense that you will be valuable as a CIO and most importantly have job satisfaction. Below are a few questions I think can help. Can you describe your company’s growth (or lack there of) in terms of revenue and hiring over the last 5-10 years?

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Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2014

'From “ military dedication ” to “ civilian success, ” Veterans 360 Services is approaching the challenging transition of military service to civilian life with an innovative, focused and all-inclusive, 360 degree, process of education and employment. This San Diego-based veteran ’ s non-profit wants to lead the way to get recently-separated veterans into the workforce with an exciting and meaningful career in emerging cloud technology services.

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CTOvision

MAY 25, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. If you are an active duty military technologist or are in transition out of the military and could benefit from in depth research into enterprise technology we would like to sponsor you for free access to our CTOvision Pro research and analysis service. CTOvision Pro provides access to more in-depth analysis and reporting. Subscribers receive a bi-weekly newsletter with up to date context and analysis that can help you apply emerging technologies to your mission needs.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 29, 2014

'Uptime survey: Colo spending grows, as enterprise spending shrinks, but do not expect enterprises to shift compute capacity to colos or cloud quickly. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

MAY 30, 2014

'Software Defined Networking is a meaty topic and a good follow-up to last week’s conversation on Software Defined Storage. There’s a lot at stake from both the software and hardware vendors in this space.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 29, 2014

'Congratulations to my friends at "On The FrontLines Magazine" for an EXCELLENT presentation of important operational and managerial cloud computing transition lessons. This issues showcases cloud computing leaders from government and the private sector that share their views on this critical topic. A few of the educational gems enclosed in this 20 PAGE ISSUE: Matt Goodrich, FedRAMP Program Manager, GSA - “The first one is security is largely not a technical issue.

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CTOvision

MAY 27, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Three highly regarded community technologists will meet in a NextGov morning event 3 June 2014 to examine Big Data’s Role in Cybersecurity. Details from the invite: When addressing cybersecurity, it is tempting to think that strengthening walls is enough to prevent unwanted intruders–yet data breaches continue to occur at alarming rates.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 30, 2014

'The Data Center Energy Challenge calls upon federal agencies to improve energy efficiency of their data centers by 20 percent by 2020, and private-sector data center operators are welcome to join. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

MAY 30, 2014

'I usually stay quiet on social issues on this channel. But there are moments when the news cycle hits a subject near and dear to my heart. This issue is diversity in technology.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2014

'From “ military dedication ” to “ civilian success, ” Veterans 360 Services is approaching the challenging transition of military service to civilian life with an innovative, focused and all-inclusive, 360 degree, process of education and employment. This San Diego-based veteran ’ s non-profit wants to lead the way to get recently-separated veterans into the workforce with an exciting and meaningful career in emerging cloud technology services.

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CTOvision

MAY 30, 2014

'By ShannonPerry. The Pew Research Center Internet Project, one of the current initiatives overseen by Pew Research, is attempting to mark the World Wide Web’s 25 th anniversary with a thorough look at the Internet’s future. The most recent report is called the Internet of Things , a phrase for modern devices that feed data back and forth – including wearables, smartphones, appliances, vehicles, and computers.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 30, 2014

'The Uptime Institute finds that availability is the number-one data center provider selection criterion. More than 20 percent of respondents to a recent survey said they had an outage with their colocation provider over a recent 12-month period. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

MAY 26, 2014

'Continuing the theme of the software defined data center, I tackle the network. Even if we accept the argument that networks scale perfectly fine without abstraction the question of agility has to be answered.

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Future of CIO

MAY 28, 2014

Data is like the crude oil, the primitive forest, the deep sea, the soft asset and the raw intelligence of business in the 21st century. Statistically, the amount of data stored is doubling every 18 months, and many organizations concern "we have too much data but not enough information" or "we are rich in data but poor in information, knowledge, insight and analysis.".

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CTOvision

MAY 24, 2014

'Storm clouds of litigation threats and federal regulations have darkened the beginning of May for some techies. Will Thom Wheeler and the FCC continue to promote the “fast lane” idea? Will Net Neutrality advocates raise enough of a fuss to get the commission to back down? Will the freedom of the Internet come crashing down around us? If Google has its way, the Net Neutrality issue could soon become, well, less of an issue.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 30, 2014

'Time to roll into the weekend with some data center levity! Vote for your favorite reader-submitted caption for our "Caught Up in Cables" cartoon. Read More.

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Nutanix

MAY 30, 2014

Last week saw our first EMEA Partner summit taking place over two days in Marbella, Spain. We had over 100 delegates attend from more than 50 partners, spanning all corners of EMEA – from Finland in the North to South Africa in the South.

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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.