Sat.Feb 14, 2015 - Fri.Feb 20, 2015

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Five Thoughts from the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection

CTOvision

'By Nate Fick. Editor''s note: Nate Fick is the CEO of Endgame where we first saw this piece. We asked him to share these thoughts with you here. - bg. The Obama Administration deserves credit for putting together the first-ever White House summit on cybersecurity on Friday and – contrary to what some media coverage may lead you to believe – the U.S. private sector mostly deserves credit for showing up.

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Why Hybrid Cloud Continues to Grow: A Look at Real Use-Cases

Data Center Knowledge

'With hybrid cloud systems continuing to gain popularity, we look at three real use-cases where this cloud model directly helps organizations. Read More.

Cloud 217
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Use Cases for the Cloud

Eric D. Brown

'If you’ve spent any time within IT over the last few years, you’ve probably heard the term ‘cloud’ more than you really wanted to. The cloud has become something of a buzzword over the years. Buzzwords are created when a term is overused, and the cloud has been overused quite a bit in many organizations. It seems that any time a problem arises, the first solution is to use ‘the cloud’.

Cloud 164
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CIOs Need To Learn How To Manage Digital Cowboys

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Digital cowboys are the next CIO management challenge Image Credit: anyjazz65. In the modern IT department, CIOs are called upon to perform many different tasks. I believe that we can all agree that one of the most important of these tasks is managing and mentoring the next generation of IT leaders. Today’s new arrivals seem to be so different from when we joined the firm that a lot of us simply don’t know where to start when it comes to showing them the way.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 CTOvision publisher and Cognitio Corp co-founder Bob Gourley hosted an event for federal big data professionals. The breakfast event focused on security for big data designs and featured the highly regarded security architect Eddie Garcia. Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera , a leader in enterprise analytic data management.

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What Should You Consider When Moving to Colocation or Managed Services?

Data Center Knowledge

'Finding and purchasing colo space is not as simple as it seems. How do you go about defining your needs, finding the right provider, negotiating the deal, and migrating to the space? Read More.

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African-Americans and STEM careers: Getting a foot in the door

Cloud Musings

'By Sandra K. Johnson Technology leadership is driven by the innovation and creativity of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals. S TEM careers offer some of the highest-paying jobs and the potential for a high quality of life. However, the realization of such promises has not benefited all segments of the U.S. population, including African-Americans.

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Pivotal CEO Hints At Big Shift In Their Hadoop Offerings

CTOvision

'By Michael Johnson. VentureBeat and GigaOm are both reporting that Pivotal will be announcing some big shifts in their Hadoop and other related offerings (recall that Pivotal is the firm spun off from EMC and VMware and has GE as a major investor). VentureBeat first announced that Pivotal will be ditching its Hadoop distribution and pulling out of the Hadoop market.

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Cloud Firm Linode to Add Singapore, Germany Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Developer-focused service provider has grown almost entirely through grassroots efforts and word of mouth into an international cloud player Read More.

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SCCM 2012 R2 Client Uninstalls after Reboot

Mick's IT Blog

'I encountered an issue with SCCM 2012 R2 when deploying the client to systems that were being upgraded from SCCM 2007. What would happen was that I pushed the client to the system through the console using the Install Client option. The client cleanly uninstalled the 2007 client and installed the 2012 client with no issues. Upon the first reboot of the system, the client would be completely uninstalled.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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AWS Certification for DevOps Engineers

All Things Distributed

'One of our guiding principles at AWS is to listen closely to our customers and the feedback that I am getting about our training and certification program is very positive. Many architects and engineers know the Cloud is the future of development and IT and the are gearing up to be as succesful as possible in this new normal. This is why I’m excited to announce the availability of a new Professional level certification from AWS that has been high on the list of our customers.

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Big Data Analytics company Qurius now also offers professional services as Deep 6 Analytics

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Editor''s note: I have had the opportunity to interact with Wout Brusselaers and Brian Dolan of Qurius and regard them as highly accomplished big data architects with special capabilities in natural language processing and deep learning. I asked them to provide an update on what they are up to, their response is below. - bg. Big Data Analytics company Qurius now also offers professional services as Deep 6 Analytics.

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Microsoft to Spend $200M on Wyoming Data Center Expansion

Data Center Knowledge

'Another $200 million investment brings Microsoft''s investment in Laramie county to over $750 million. Microsoft''s Wyoming location is home to cutting edge renewable and sustainable energy research Read More.

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PowerShell: List all Local Administrators on a Computer

Mick's IT Blog

'I wrote this script to generate a list of local administrators on a PC. It saves the output to a text file at a central repository. The text file is named the computer name and contains a listing of all the local administrators. It can be pushed out to run as a package in SCCM. The second script will read all of the text files and create a csv file with all of the combined data.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Does VMware Integrated OpenStack make sense?

Virtualized Greek

'I called for VMware to introduce an OpenStack distribution. People have consistently told me that I just don’t get OpenStack and that VMware creating a distribution simply didn’t make sense. I’d argue these same people just don’t get the needs.

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DJ Patil, First US Chief Data Scientist

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Everyone in the big data movement knows of DJ Patil. What you might not know about him is that he is one of many technologists who took government experience and service into the private sector to help contribute there. Yep, while everyone else, including Wired, is saying this is a story about a technology executive "defecting" to government (yes Wired used that word: see the Wired piece here ), the reality is the story is one of yet another great government technologist taking

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Survey: Enterprise Cloud Adoption Driving Changes in IT Ops

Data Center Knowledge

'Cloud is about speed and agility above cost considerations, leading many to hybrid cloud, the similarly agile DevOps, and a focus on governance rather than cloud vs. no cloud Read More.

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Presentations in Markdown Using Deckset

Scott Lowe

'Over the past couple of years, Markdown has become an important part of my computing landscape. I’ve transitioned almost all of my text-based content creation, including this blog, over to Markdown. I’d also been looking for ways that I might be able to extend my use of Markdown into creating presentations as well, but hadn’t—until recently—found a tool that fit into my workflow.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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[Video] Installing vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) in VMware Workstation

Virtualized Greek

'Getting back on the horse and trying to finish up my youtube playlist on installing a vSphere lab within VMware workstation. In this latest video I show how and why to install a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) in VMware Workstation.

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Fresh Insights into the NSA’s Cyber Capabilities

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. It is widely known that the National Security Agency houses an impressive cyber force with the capacity to bypass the digital defenses of private individuals, enterprises, and even foreign governments – a force powerful enough to draw criticism from the American public and American allies. A recent report from Russian researchers has provided more specific information vis-à-vis the technical capabilities of NSA.

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Keeping the Video Streaming

Data Center Knowledge

'The shift to social networks, networked screens, and mobile devices will push most video content to be streamed exclusively, writes Lance Smith of Primary Data. Enabling offline and mobile viewing on all of these platforms will require a number of innovations in technology. Read More.

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A Quick Thought About Mesos-DNS

Scott Lowe

'A colleague recently pointed me to the recent Mesosphere announcement of Mesos-DNS , a DNS-based service discovery mechanism for Apache Mesos clusters. A comment made in the announcement got me thinking, and I wanted to briefly share my thoughts. The comment that got me thinking was this: Mesos-DNS is simple and stateless. Unlike Consul and SkyDNS , it does not require consensus mechanisms, persistent storage, or a replicated log.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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The System Thinking of the Business World

Future of CIO

'Balance and harmony' are not fixed, they are flowing. We are at the inflection point of digitalization, the business and the world as a whole has become hyper-connected, interdependent and over-complex because the world itself is a system, which means that any view of the world that is not based on the world being a system - must be inaccurate. But what’s the system view of the world?

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Pentaho 5.3 Continues To Deliver On Big Data Analytics With Scale Including AWS Redshift and Impala

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Pentaho has just announced version 5.3 of their open data platform including new features which will be of high interest to any enterprise with data (all enterprises!). From their press release: Pentaho to Deliver On Demand Big Data Analytics at Scale on Amazon Web Services and Cloudera. Pentaho 5.3 Opens Data Refinery to Amazon Redshift and Cloudera Impala; Pushes the Limits of Analytics Through Blended, Governed Data Delivery On Demand.

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Google Compute Engine, AOL Mail Suffer Early Morning Outages

Data Center Knowledge

'Google Compute Engine Suffered an outage lasting around 1.5 hours, while AOL''s email service was down for most of the morning. Read More.

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Vagrant Box for Learning Open vSwitch

Scott Lowe

'As you may have picked up from some of my recent posts, I’m focused on building content and tools that will help others learn new projects, products, and technologies that I think will be very relevant in the future. One such project is Open vSwitch (OVS) , which I’ve written about quite a bit (you can see all OVS-related posts here ). To help others work with and learn about Open vSwitch, I’ve published a new Vagrant base box.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Digital Master Tuning: The Digital Shift on How to Measure Employee Performance

Future of CIO

Measure thinker performance and doer performance differently but objectively. The common symptom of performance failure is to rate employees as a convenience, not a way of improving performance. Rating forms are convenient but have little potential for improving performance. The biggest stumbling block for a large organization to come unstuck is getting performance data that is useful.

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Insights Into DoD Mission Needs From Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work

CTOvision

'By ChrisScott. The Honorable Robert O. Work, Deputy Secretary of Defense spoke at AFCEA WEST in San Diego on 10 February. This is the largest Navy/USMC forum and was well attended by key leaders this year. Secretary Work was convincing in his condemnation of sequestration, and how it will cripple the force readiness if not rescinded. A full recap of comments and context from Deputy Secretary of Defense Work is provided at this special report for CTOvision Pro subscribers.

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Firmer Pricing in US Data Center Market Expected in 2015

Data Center Knowledge

'Pricing has not moved with supply-demand dynamics over the last 12 months, but Cushman & Wakefield believes the market has turned a corner Read More.

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Three Secrets of Digital Innovators

Lundberg Media

Creating the conditions for and harnessing innovation isn't easy, especially for large organizations. Innovation Accelerators — companies that are committed to innovation across the enterprise — take a managed, structured approach. That may seem contradictory — after all, isn't innovation supposed to be creative and spontaneous? Creative, yes, but if you rely on spontaneous combustion to light your innovation process, your results will be uneven at best.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.