CTOvision

DECEMBER 11, 2013

'By Bob Gourley DC seems to have a cyber security related event every week. No kidding. You have to pick and chose and only go to the best or you will never get any work done. How do you pick the right events? My recommendation is to look for events that have a good mix of thought leaders from a variety of organizations and sectors of the economy, since that is an indicator that there will be a good sharing of lessons learned.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 11, 2013

'ManageEngine has already established itself in IT management. The company has expanded into facilities management for a DCIM product that manages the entire data center infrastructure.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 9, 2013

'Sponsored by Dimension Data. BYOD is a reality today. Organizations have been trying to figured out how to manage this new ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) reality but there are very few organizations that have robust strategies and solutions to manage this new mobile world. Most organizations have embraced BYOD with a few one-off solutions for data protection or security but for a long-term solution, organizations need a robust end-to-end strategy.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2013

'When team members don’t get along, everyone suffers Image Credit. I’m currently in charge of a department of skilled IT professionals. They each have their own set of skills that they bring to my company and I need each of them to be operating at peak efficiency if I want to have any hope of my company using the importance of information technology in order to become a success.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2013

'By Bob Gourley We have written before about Mach37 , the innovative and intensive cyber accelerator located at the Center for Innovative Technology. Mach37 runs an intensive technology launch program that moves firms through a 90 day process designed to make very virtuous change for the cyber security ecosystem. From their website: MACH37™ is America’s premier market-centric cybersecurity accelerator.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 13, 2013

'Storage has been a hot topic in 2013, and with the demand for storage only on the increase. We spoke with Radhika Krishnan, Vice President of Product Marketing and Alliances for Nimble Storage, a hybrid flash-disk storage provider at the Gartner Data Center Conference, and she noted the company had.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2013

'What does it really mean to be a CIO? You sure won’t be writing any software any more. You won’t be stringing network cables or updating firewall parameters. What does a CIO really do? I’ve got some bad news for you: CIOs manage. What You’ll Find Inside: IT JUDGMENT CALLS: HOW TO MAKE GOOD ONES. BREAKTHROUGH IT STRATEGY: TAKE A NEW “PATH” TO SUCCESS.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 10, 2013

'By Bob Gourley If you were not able to watch our webinar on best practices for government big data solutions please review the on demand recording at this link: [link]. The webinar reviews best practices in big data solutions based on surveys and research done here at CTOvision.com. It also includes details on useful integrations between Pentaho Business Analytics and MongoDB with a focus on solutions in place at federal government agencies.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 7, 2013

'The Week in Review: The cost of downtime is rising, Google building big in Iowa, Microsoft expands Dublin cloud hub, Bitcoin arms race spurs interest in liquid cooling, Node gets traction with Paypal and Groupon.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

'In September, the NCOIC delivered the Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) demonstration. Sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, this demonstration showed how an interoperable, hybrid-cloud operating environment can be quickly enabled and used as a rapid response capability.While this demonstration was designed around lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, the effort showed how a cloud services brokerage approach could be used to quickly provide critical information tech

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2013

'New Book: How CIOs Can Make Innovation Happen. Every company wants to grow and become more successful. There is no magic formula to make this happen, but it is generally agreed that in order for this to happen the company cannot stand still. Instead, they always have to be trying new things and growing. What You’ll Find Inside: CREATIVE ABRASION: HOW TO BUILD INNOVATION INTO IT.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'By Bob Gourley SecureNinjaTV’s Alicia Webb speaks with Reagan Kling about Hadoop and Big Data at FEDcyber 2013 in Arlington, Virginia. Platfora’s mission is to empower customers to transform their businesses into fact-based enterprises. Platfora’s Big Data Analytics Platform masks the complexity of Hadoop, making it easy for customers to understand all the facts in their business across events, actions, behaviors and time.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 13, 2013

'In an era of technology evolution and sometimes turmoil, there are unexpected islands of calm populated by extremely stable legacy hardware systems. Ironically, some of these oldest citizens of the data center also happen to be the most stable and secure, writes Duane Harris of Nemonix. The.

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Mick's IT Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2013

'Here is a script that will uninstall Autodesk 2014. This will uninstall BDS Ultimate, which should cover all Revit 2014 applications. This also uninstalls Civil 3D 2014, but does not cover anything else from the IDSP suite. There are three sections in this script. You can enter the argument at the command line to uninstall architecture, engineering, and Civil 3D.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2013

'New Book: CIO Communication Skills Secrets. Isn’t technology a wonderful thing? As CIO you are in charge of one of the most technologically sophisticated parts of the company. It’s very easy to fill your days dealing with issues regarding servers, networks, routers, switches, firewalls, etc. However, it turns out that if you do this, then you’ll be overlooking one of the most important tasks that a CIO needs to accomplish: communication.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 13, 2013

'By Bob Gourley This post was written on behalf of Corvil to help further the dialog on efficient IT operations. We have previously written about the emerging discipline of an integrated approach to Enterprise Operational Performance Monitoring ( EOPM ). The EPOM approach integrates business/mission data and visibility with performance monitoring of the infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 11, 2013

'Google has opened facilities in Taiwan and Singapore, while Shelving plans in Hong Kong. The company is building up its data center presence in Asia in response to immense internet growth.

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Mick's IT Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'I was deploying an application through SCCM and it continued to fail every time, although the app was completely installed. I knew it had to be with the verification process. I went through and entered all of the GUIDs for the apps being installed as the verification. I wrote the script below to verify WMI could see the GUIDs and come to find out, they were not registered in the HKCR, but the apps were registered in the HKLM, which makes it show up in the add/remove programs.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'DBT-DATA provides reliable, flexible, and cost-effective data center solutions to federal, enterprise, and internet customers. With premier facilities in Ashburn, Virginia and the Cyber Integration Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia, they acquire, develop, own, and operate facilities that are not only engineered to the highest standards, but are also strategically located in the most reliable, cost-effective and risk-averse geographies.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 9, 2013

'By Bob Gourley The infographic below, provided by Egnyte , provides great context for any IT professional tracking the features, functions, risks and strategic concepts around support to mobile devices. Thanks Egnyte for pulling this together, very informative.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'Dell Announced it is partnering with some of the world''s biggest cloud players at Dell World. Microsoft announces its Cloud OS Network. Two tech giants are taking different approaches in their attempts to gain cloud market share.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 9, 2013

'Amazon AWS is the power house in Cloud computing. However, they have struggled to gain a foothold in the enterprise. This is the case even when the geekiest of the enterprise SMEs finds creative uses for the service itself. EMC’s Chad Sakac provides a use case where his team builds an AWS application to test their ScaleIO solution for a total cost of only $7.41!

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A CIO's Voice

DECEMBER 13, 2013

'The other day I was having a conversation with someone in there 20s and I mentioned a TV Guide. They gave me that look you get when you tell people you remember when TV sets had knobs. As technology marches on, there are some items in print that have or are disappearing. I remember reading the TV Guide but I have not used on in over 10 years, since I got cable and use the online TV Guide.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'By Bob Gourley. Awards target academic research and commercialization activities in the Commonwealth . December 12, 2013 (HERNDON, Va.) – The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today nearly $1.4 million in funding for 14 awards to Virginia’s colleges, universities, and research organizations as part of the FY2014 fall solicitation of the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF).

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'Roughly 36 percent of the audience in a Gartner conference session reported they will be likely to significantly implement Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tools in their data center in 2014, and another 25 percent predicted they will implement in the next two years. Gartner analysts.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'Every now and again I attempt to peak outside of my enterprise infrastructure bubble and think about one of our primary customers – Developers. I’ve been on record in saying one of the primary reasons for adopting a private Cloud is to build Cloud aware applications and services. There is some advantage to providing self-service portals that allow developers to check out infrastructure resources for development and test.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'The phrase “No man is an island” is attributed to John Donne, an English poet who lived in the late 1500s and early 1600s. The phrase comes from his Meditation XVII , and was borrowed later by Thomas Merton to become the title of a book he published in 1955. In both cases, the phrase is used to discuss the interconnected nature of humanity and mankind.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 9, 2013

'By Bob Gourley We are part of the Google Glass Explorer program and have enjoyed being able to use Glass to help think through some of the potential of this new category of technology. After spending time with this I believe Google Glass will be a success in the market. I can’t say that every home will own one. But I can say the device is here to stay and every year I expect to see improvements in the hardware and a very rich ecosystem of applications to continue to grow around it.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 10, 2013

'SolidFire makes all-flash storage systems designed for next generation data centers. Nine new customers are leveraging SolidFire’s all-flash architecture.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 12, 2013

'I know we are just at the beginning of the network virtualization movement but, I have some pretty high hopes for the technology. I believe IaaS Cloud is one of the “killer” applications for network virtualization. A lot of attention has been paid to the orchestration that comes to provisioning networks in the enterprise and within Cloud providers via network virtualization.

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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.