Sat.Nov 24, 2012 - Fri.Nov 30, 2012

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Why Mentors Are So Important For CIOs And How To Get Them (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Every CIO needs a mentor… Image Credit. When you become a CIO, the reason that you’ve been able to achieve this position is because you know everything that you’ll ever have to know, right? You’ll never make a mistake again and every decision that you’ll make will be the right decision. Correct? I’m betting that you are probably shaking your head right about now and that’s a good thing.

Strategy 178
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Three Ways Data Scientists Can Differentiate - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Three Ways Data Scientists Can Differentiate.

Agile 135
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Google Atmosphere: The future of the enterprise and the economy of individuals

Trends in the Living Networks

Earlier this year I gave the opening keynote at the Google Atmosphere on Tour events in Sydney and Melbourne. Below is the 2 minute summary video of the event, giving a flavor for the rich ideas shared on the future of the enterprise. In the video’s excerpt from my speech (from 0:20) I talk about the “economy of individuals” that I have since expanded on in other content including my Future of Work framework.

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Why I Might Leave OS X

Scott Lowe

'I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” Since that time, I’ve upgraded hardware (moving from a Titanium PowerBook G4 to a Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro circa 2006, then to a 2009-era 15″ Core 2 Duo-based MacBookPro, and finally to a 13″ MacBook Pro with a Core i7) and I’ve upgraded OS X releases (from Jaguar to Panther to Tiger to Leopard and finally to Snow Leopard).

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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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Winning the New Enterprise Sales Game: This Week’s B2B IT Forum

The Investing Edge

'We are very pleased that our second B2B Enterprise IT Forum was so well received. Thank you for all of the positive feedback. We had a strong turnout, smart questions from our audience, and great advice from our panelists on how to successfully sell enterprise IT. If you weren’t able to attend, we’ve compiled some of the key takeaways from our panel, which together possess nearly a century of enterprise sales experience.

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How Will Technology Impact Your Business in 2020?

Cloud Musings

'by Dennis Brouwer. (Repost from ThinkGig. Thanks for letting me contribute to your ebook!! - Kevin Jackson ). Human-like technology. The potential downfall of the data center. Hyper-personalization of data. These are some of the responses IT. leaders gave to us when we asked, “What will business technology look. like in 2020?”. In 2020, tech experts say, computers could learn from experience, much like the human brain.

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Using Puppet for Account Management

Scott Lowe

'It’s been over four months since my last post on open source Puppet , when I posted some updated multi-OS Puppet configurations. I’m back from a long Puppet hiatus with some information on using Puppet for managing user accounts. It was pretty tough coming back to Puppet after a four-month break (during which time I’ve been spending plenty of time on KVM, Open vSwitch, and libvirt), and it was almost like learning Puppet again from scratch.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Sparse Partitions - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Sparse Partitions. By Werner Vogels on 30 November 2012 11:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The amazing AWS re: Invent conference completed last night and I am on my way to Europe for a last visit to customers this year.

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The Government Cloud on KCUR-FM Central Standard

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Automate Unmounting WIM Files

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

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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Presentation from UK VMUG

Scott Lowe

'Earlier this month (November 2012), I had the honor of presenting the closing keynote at the 2nd annual UK National VMUG user conference. I was thrilled to be able to support the worldwide VMUG community, and a number of attendees asked if I would make my presentation available. So, in addition to providing a copy of the deck to the VMUG leaders, I’m also publishing it here via SpeakerDeck.

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Three Types of “Low Hanging Fruits” from EA

Future of CIO

EA, as an abstraction, is created to convey the business value of change. We may all understand the fact that EA is a journey, but we also know stakeholders everywhere want to see results (Value) as soon as it is initiated/piloted. Can Business (Enterprise) Architecture delivers value within 90 days? What would that be? 1. Quick Win is in the mind of the expectant not the action of the executioner.

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Crawl, Walk, Jog—and Then Sprint

Nutanix

With the lessons learned in the field we are now well capitalized and poised for much more accelerated growth and give our best shot to own the market for hyperconverged appliances.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Automate Mounting WIM Files

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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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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Presentation from Portland VMUG

Scott Lowe

'At the request of a few individuals, I’m posting my presentation from the Portland VMUG here. It’s my first presentation on OpenStack , and hopefully I didn’t mangle things too badly. Feel free to provide any corrections, clarifications, or other feedback in the comments below (courteously, of course). Here’s the presentation as hosted on SpeakerDeck : For those that would like a direct download, it’s available here as a PDF.

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Four Ingredients in High Performance Organizations’ Secret Sauce

Future of CIO

High performers are more outward-looking and focused on the business dynamic. In a recently released business report, Ernst & Young has identified four factors that drive Competitive success in today’s global economy: customer reach, operational agility, cost competitiveness and stakeholder confidence. The report also articulates the business new normal facing in business during the last couple of years.

Agile 40
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Expanding the Cloud ? Announcing Amazon Redshift, a Petabyte.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Announcing Amazon Redshift, a Petabyte-scale Data Warehouse Service. By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, we are excited to announce the limited preview of Amazon Redshift , a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud.

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Mick's IT Blogs: BOOTMGR is missing after applying a WIM

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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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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Problem with Markdown Files in BoxCryptor on iOS

Scott Lowe

'About a week ago, I published an article showing you how to use EncFS and BoxCryptor to provide client-side encryption of Dropbox data. After working with this configuration for a while, I’ve run across a problem (at least, a problem for me—it might not be a problem for you). The problem lies on the iPad end of things. If you haven’t read the earlier post, the basic gist of the idea is to use EncFS—an open source encrypting file system—and OSXFUSE to provide file-l

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Three Considerations in Reinventing IT Organizational Structure

Future of CIO

IT can be a "pioneering" division to walk the talk and lead the change within an organization. Many IT organizations or enterprise as a whole intend to reinvent their “stale” working environment with 20th culture such as bureaucracy, inertia to change, reward mediocrity, homogeneous leadership & talent team, over-complex business processes, inefficient communication pipelines, etc.

Agile 40
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Connecting OVS Bridges with Patch Ports

Scott Lowe

'Spurred to action by a brief mention at the bottom of a blog post , I began digging into the use of patch ports to connect multiple Open vSwitch (OVS) bridges. In this post, I’ll show you how to connect two separate OVS bridges using a patch port, and then we’ll explore some possible use cases for this functionality. You’ve seen me use the ovs-vsctl set interface <interface name> type=. syntax several times; I provided some insight on what it’s doing in this post