CTOvision
MAY 5, 2014
'As a technologist I have long respected Symantec and their many capabilities (they do far more than antivirus, see the list here). But the hottest firms in cyber security, those growing because they make real, measurable, virtuous differences in enterprise security, are growing because they realized that Symantec''s core antivirus features just are not sufficient.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 6, 2014
'Different ‘Cat8’ solutions are being considered by the standards bodies for 40Gb/s over twisted pair copper, writes Ken Hodge of Brand-Rex. How will new cabling impact data centers? Read More.
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CIO Musings
MAY 5, 2014
'NOTE: This entry is also posted at [link]. I have been invited to be a featured blogger for them, which I am really happy about. Do you believe that the involvement of citizens in the management of the government makes government better? Are you willing to do things differently to reach a different segment of the population? One of the leaders I respect the most has often been heard to say that public servants are at their best when they partner with citizens.
Eric D. Brown
MAY 4, 2014
'Time to rethink your business model. Quote : If your business model is so obsolete that the only way to make money is to extract fees when your customers make mistakes, or to charge for stuff that was once free, it’s time to innovate your business model. The Future of Retail and the Cloud Wars. Quote : Retail is undergoing a massive transformation as we speak.
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.
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Students of history know what happens when adversaries learn how the good guys collect intelligence on them. They change their tactics, techniques or procedures and it gets much harder to know their intentions. Most of us knew this is what would happen with the disclosures by Edward Snowden. And testimony by intelligence community professionals indicates they have had evidence this was occurring.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 6, 2014
'The environmental group''s real target is not Pinterest, but the social network’s cloud provider Amazon and its coal-powered data centers. Read More.
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Cloud Musings
MAY 6, 2014
'The 2nd Agile Cloud Environment event will be held on May 21, 2014 at TIA Headquarters. This event will focus on development of the Agile Cloud Environment Service Catalog. The meeting will feature a series of 30 minute presentations during which prospective government users of the "Third Rail" will voice their desires and expectations with regard to the postulated cloud services.
CTOvision
MAY 6, 2014
'Catelas is a solution on the market today that maps out large communications networks. The software''s unique value is its ability to automatically identify the people that matter in any dataset – a specific case (collected data) or across the entire company (log files or email meta-data). Catelas is used for Legal (Early Case Intelligence & Identification), Compliance (Supervision in Financial Services and 3rd party Compliance & Risk Oversigh.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 7, 2014
'Two of most infamous, recent, far-reaching cyber-security events affected millions of people’s information privacy, were well publicized, and were preventable by known, low cost and common best practices, writes Winston Saunders of Intel. Read More.
Virtualized Greek
MAY 5, 2014
'Convergence is aiming to change the data center with the promise of simplifying overall IT operations. We’ve seen tightly engineered solutions from VMware, Cisco and EMC in the form of vBlocks from VCE.
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Cloud Musings
MAY 6, 2014
'The 2nd Agile Cloud Environment event will be held on May 21, 2014 at TIA Headquarters. This event will focus on development of the Agile Cloud Environment Service Catalog. The meeting will feature a series of 30 minute presentations during which prospective government users of the "Third Rail" will voice their desires and expectations with regard to the postulated cloud services.
CTOvision
MAY 5, 2014
'With this post we are beginning our coverage of D-Wave Systems, the world''s first commercially available quantum computer system. D-Wave Systems and their approach is not without controversy. Computer scientists and those who track technology have long studied the potential of quantum computing. The theories of what it can do are incredible, and lab research proves on a daily basis that these theories can be transformed into working realities.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 5, 2014
'Company plans to open source customer premise equipment routing software and adds SDN capabilities to Evolved Services Platform for cable operators Read More.
Virtualized Greek
MAY 6, 2014
'For the “Big 40″ I discuss why abstraction is important not just for server virtualization but why it’s important for network and storage.
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Scott Lowe
MAY 9, 2014
'Welcome to Technology Short Take #41, the latest in my series of random thoughts, articles, and links from around the Internet. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a networking topic that is starting to get more and more attention (some may equate “attention” with “hype”; I’ll allow you to draw your own conclusion there).
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2014
'By ShannonPerry. Since the bug became public knowledge in early April, the Heartbleed vulnerability has captured media headlines across the U.S. The hole existed in OpenSSL, an open-source program used by hundreds of thousands of websites. The bug affected some of the world’s most popular sites, including Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia. Even worse, the vulnerability existed for more than two years before its detection.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 5, 2014
'Data center managers, especially those who oversee facilities that must be available to support revenue generating business operations, are constantly working to overcome the threat of downtime. One of the best ways to minimize this risk is to take care of the batteries that support your.
Future of CIO
MAY 6, 2014
A systematic transformation takes the step-wise scenario and going from decision right to design attitude. The speed of change is accelerated, the large-scale transformation initiatives have become a fact of life at major corporations, and their success or failure often means the key difference between long-term success and underperformance. However, on a global scale, approximately 70% of the business or IT transformation have failed to meet business expectations, how to make such a transformat
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The Accidental Successful CIO
MAY 7, 2014
'The British NHS IT project is going to end costing a lot and delivering very little Image Credit. It seems like a classic IT problem. You’ve got a lot of separate medical facilities all trying to provide medical services to people who live in the same country. What’s even better is that everyone is taking part in a nationally provided health care program.
CTOvision
MAY 3, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. The team at O’Reilly have been very graciously offering any CTOvision reader a deep discount registration to their first of a kind Solid Conference (21-22 May in San Francisco). Registering with our discount code CTOVIZ will give you a 20% discount. Now team O’Reilly are allowing us to give away one free pass to this two day event.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 6, 2014
'SanDisk (SNDK) has announced two new solid state drives, including the 4 TB Optimus MAX and the Lightning Gen. II family of enterprise-class 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI drives. Read More.
Future of CIO
MAY 8, 2014
Overall, the costs and benefits of standardization and integration are case-specific. The balance between standardization and integration, at the business or enterprise level, was the defining characteristic of the industrial age. Organizations today are even more complex and hyper-connected, hence, standardization and integration are more crucial, not less, as at all levels in life and business, there is an understanding about standards and why - and in this day of globalization and global mark
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Eric D. Brown
MAY 9, 2014
'Our Chinchilla BB passed away this week. She was a great member of our family and will be missed. 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. Or, if you are interested in renting gear before buying, try out my favorite camera, lens and gear rental site - Borrowlenses.com (affiliate link) - the f
CTOvision
MAY 7, 2014
'By ShannonPerry. Responding to the controversy surrounding the NSA, President Obama called for a 90-day review in January to address new challenges to national security and issues of individual privacy posed by the United States’ increasing reliance on technology. The review should be published in late April or early May, but a recent interview with White House counselor John Podesta – the leader of the review – sheds some light on its content.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 5, 2014
'“Facility-as-a-Service” adds flexibility to colocation model, shifts data center expense from capital to operating Read More.
Future of CIO
MAY 7, 2014
When there is no maturity in the technology core, IT will find it difficult to meet the digital challenges. Shadow IT generally refers to the systems and solutions built and used inside organizations without IT approval, and there’s mixed feedback upon it. So how should CIOs respond today? Is shadow IT competing with IT, or actually complementary to IT services?
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Chief Seattle Greek Blog
MAY 5, 2014
'Bureaucrat. There is an entrepreneur in almost every government employee. It just needs to be unleashed. “Innovation” is an overused word, especially in government. Chief Innovation Officers are sprouting up in state and local governments as fast as dandelions bloom in the springtime. I’ve contributed to this trend myself, publicly advocating Seattle’s new Mayor Ed Murray to appoint a Chief Innovation Officer.
CTOvision
MAY 7, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. We are very excited to be working closely with the the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) to coordinate the 2014 Analytics Forum, which will be held 30 July in Reston VA. This event is being designed to facilitate sharing of lessons learned between and among analysts across multiple sectors. The event is coming together quickly, and we expect to have a draft agenda ready to share in ten days.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 8, 2014
'Facebook has chosen Emerson Network Power to help implement its vision for a "rapid deployment data center" (RDDC) that will combine factory-built components with lean construction techniques, the companies said today. Read More.
Future of CIO
MAY 7, 2014
COE is often made as competency center for enterprise-wide IT deployment. A center of excellence refers to a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership, evangelization, best practices, research, support or training for a focus area. A center of excellence may also be aimed at revitalizing stalled initiatives. (Wikipedia) If a COE is well planned, it is quite beneficiary from both value perspective and cost point of view: In multinationals that can afford it, it is a solution t
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.
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