CTOvision

JUNE 27, 2014

'By Gregory Piatetsky. Editor’s note: This post by Gregory Piatetsky first appeared at KDnuggets.com. It it he dives into a key question regarding the possible shortage of data scientists. -bg. Many people have read the McKinsey report on Big Data (May 2011) which predicted . The United States alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with analytical expertise and 1.5 million managers and analysts with the skills to understand and make decisions based on the analysis of big

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 23, 2014

'Data center designers have generally gotten reliability right. except for that rare occasion when a truck runs into a power transformer or a ship drops an anchor onto a submarine cable. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 25, 2014

'The Nasdaq CIO Should Have Known Better Image Credit. The IT department over at the Nasdaq stock exchange had a rough year in 2013. Their exchange, which is used by thousands of traders every day, suffered two debilitating outages. I can understand one outage, things happen. But two? Where was the CIO? Two Outages Too Many. The Nasdaq is a stock market where traders can buy and sell stocks that are traded there.

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 22, 2014

'Cloud security is not an oxymoron. Quote : I get it: there is a lot of data that can’t move to the cloud, not because IT managers don’t understand the issues, but because they need to comply with regulations that were designed before we understood the scope of our security problems. If you’re in one of those businesses, which includes most of the health and banking sectors, you’re out of luck.

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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

JUNE 21, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The video at this link and embedded below provides an overview of conclusions from CTOvision research into ways to automate the removal of cyber threats (including malware) from your enterprise. It highlights ten requirements CTOs, CIOs, CISOs and CFOs should articulate as critical to success in automating security response. Additional context into this topic is available in our research report downloadable here: .

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 24, 2014

'During a May meeting with a group of CIOs in Berlin Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith witnessed something unusual: a CIO for a German state came in carrying a copy of a legal decision. It was a magistrate’s decision in a federal court in New York on the question of… Read More.

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Mick's IT Blog

JUNE 27, 2014

'Installing the SCCM client takes a few minutes. This script was written so that it will wait for the ccmsetup.exe to complete. I have encountered issues with the setup not completing before the system reboots during a build process. That is the reason I wrote this script. There are verifications in this script and it does write a log file. If you don''t want the logs, just remove those parts of the script.

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CTOvision

JUNE 27, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. We have written before about the Security Innovation Network ( SINET ). This post provides some additional information on a 17 July 2014 session they have pulled together in NYC, one that I believe will help the community collectively tackle some key issues. Here is more from the event site : Innovation Summit 2014. “Connecting Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the Beltway”. 17 July 2014.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 27, 2014

'Upcoming cloud service aims to put heavy-duty data analytics capabilities into the hands of the general public. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 22, 2014

'(Reposted from LearningTree''s "Perspectives on Cloud Computin" at [link] ) Kevin Jackson, a certified Learning Tree cloud computing instructor and Learning Tree Cloud Computing Curriculum Initiative Manager, is set to speak at two exciting cloud computing conferences in June. On June 16, 2014, Mr. Jackson will be speaking at the inaugural “Cloud for Vets Training Class at Veterans 360 in San Diego, CA, and on June 21, 2014 will be speaking at the Congress of Cloud Computing 2014 at the Dalian

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Mick's IT Blog

JUNE 27, 2014

'There are already scripts out there that will do this, but I have taken it a little further. I have added checking to make sure the application is installed first so that the script does not error out. I have also added on-screen display to show if it was successful or not. I originally started off of the answer here and then expanded. One weird thing I encountered while writing this was that it treated excel 2010 differently than all other shortcuts.

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CTOvision

JUNE 24, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. Hackers have used distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) for political purposes before. Anonymous, protesting the Albuquerque Police Department’s use of force against two men, recently crashed the police department’s website and subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack with a YouTube video. In the last few years, major American banks have also suffered online outages from DDoS attacks – with many attributing the bank attacks to hacktivists, or ideologically mot

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 24, 2014

'Three-year project cost close to half a billion dollars and became the first Banco Santander facility to receive Uptime Institute''s Tier IV certification Read More.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 23, 2014

'Palo Alto, USA - June 23rd, 2014 – Addressing the global cloud skills gap is the number one priority to help accelerate the successful adoption of Cloud, according to the Cloud Credential Council. To address the skills gap specifically related to FedRAMP, the Cloud Credential Council has released an online course and exam for FedRAMP authored by leading government cloud expert Kevin L.

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The Investing Edge

JUNE 23, 2014

'Our singular focus on enterprise IT – combined with our 28 years of experience and over 100 early-stage investments – has yielded powerful results that speak to our deep knowledge, expertise, commitments and networks. But how does Ascent’s investing approach uniquely prepare smart entrepreneurs for success? Our new video explains our passion for enterprise IT and the early stage, and a few of our portfolio company CEOs discuss how they have benefitted from partnering with Ascent.

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CTOvision

JUNE 23, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. An upgrade for The CTOvision Mobile Application is available for iPhone , iPad and Android users. The app began as a way to serve our readers with content from CTOvision and that remains a key capability. But we now include feeds from all other major tech blogs, letting you use our mobile app to track all the technology news, analysis and context you need.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 23, 2014

'Osaka has become a quickly growing alternative outsourcing destination in Japan as companies rethink disaster preparedness Read More.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 22, 2014

'(Reposted from LearningTree''s "Perspectives on Cloud Computing" at [link] ) Kevin Jackson, a certified Learning Tree cloud computing instructor and Learning Tree Cloud Computing Curriculum Initiative Manager, is set to speak at two exciting cloud computing conferences in June. On June 16, 2014, Mr. Jackson will be speaking at the inaugural “Cloud for Vets Training Class at Veterans 360 in San Diego, CA, and on June 21, 2014 will be speaking at the Congress of Cloud Computing 2014 at the Dalian

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Future of CIO

JUNE 22, 2014

Business Plan" follows "Business Mod el." A business model is why this business works; it is a multi-level, zoom-able schema of how a business or an organization creates, delivers, and captures value for stakeholders: Customers, businesses, investors, or societ y. A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals.

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CTOvision

JUNE 26, 2014

'By Jed Mole. Database marketing: How marketing struggles with social (and what to do about it). Marketing’s landscape is changing. The advance of digital media – social channels especially – has dramatically altered the ways prime prospects expect to be approached. Yet marketers can struggle to understand social. A key factor is adaptation difficulties; social requires people who are used to traditional database marketing, to follow unfamiliar strategies and deal with complex

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 24, 2014

'There are three basic levels of cloud engagement that are becoming commonplace in today’s market, writes Matt Gerber of 2nd Watch. Learn more about each level and get planning tips along the way. Read More.

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Nutanix

JUNE 24, 2014

We announced today an OEM relationship whereby Dell is going to manufacturer appliances built with Nutanix software. But Dell’s pricing is structured in such a way that the company will not have a price advantage over other partners selling Nutanix appliances.

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Future of CIO

JUNE 22, 2014

Humans progress is made through three stages: dependent, independent, and interdependent. Due to the hyper-connectivity of digital nature, the trend toward softer and flatter organization structure is clear. And surely it is the right direction, as speed is a key imperative these days and “silo” mentality as a product of rigid hierarchy hinders flexibility.

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CTOvision

JUNE 26, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. Many techies envision a future where drones are commonplace – quickly and efficiently delivering products, providing Internet access, enabling forecasts by meteorologists, improving traffic reports, or simply watching for illegal activity. Drones will likely provide impressive contributions to our standard of living in the near future, but a recent report by The Washington Post highlights a seldom-discussed challenge associated with more drones.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 25, 2014

'Says old distributed computing system does not handle petabyte-scale analytics well enough Read More.

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Nutanix

JUNE 24, 2014

Technology companies are faced with different chasms at various phases of their growth. How deeply secure or insecure they are about crossing those chasms defines their future. How they value ubiquity and distribution separates the niche players from the category creators. I’d take the example of two companies to illustrate the point.

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Future of CIO

JUNE 22, 2014

"Trans" is a Latin noun or prefix, meaning "across," "beyond" or "on the opposite side." Complex systems science is not a science in itself, but it may be considered as a 'Science of Sciences.’ Or more precisely, are we ready to recognize a complexity science as a "trans-disciplinary Science" and apply it to understand the dynamic digital ecosystem?

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CTOvision

JUNE 23, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The news below was posted at Invincea.com. Norm Laudermilch Brings 25 Years of Technical and Executive Experience Spanning Fortune 50 Companies and Security Startups. GARTNER SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT SUMMIT, NATIONAL HARBOR, MD —June 23, 2014 – Invincea, Inc., the market leader in the use of secure virtual containers for user protection against advanced cybersecurity threats, today announced the appointment of Norm Laudermilch as the company’s first chief operating office

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 23, 2014

'Future data center at former Taystee Bakery site in Eagan do add capacity in the fast-growing regional market in Minneapolis-St. Paul Read More.

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Nutanix

JUNE 23, 2014

Incumbents have started to write blog posts pooh-pooing the undeniable web-scale “rebellion” in the enterprise. The word rebellion reminds me of the talk I gave two years ago at BriForum London.

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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.