CTOvision

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'By Boonsri Dickinson In a world full of self-driving cars, flying drones, and other robots, daily interactions with artificial intelligence will have a profound effect on how we live our lives. Elemental video scientist Boonsri Dickinson visited Carnegie Mellon robotics pioneer Maneula Veloso to talk about the science behind her robotic creations and the many years she has spent bringing autonomous robots to life.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

'SuperNAP 8 in Las Vegas has just become the first multi-tenant data center to earn Tier IV Constructed Facility certification, the highest rating possible under The Uptime Institute''s ratings for mission-critical reliability. Here''s an inside look at SuperNAP 8 and its design innovations.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'A hybrid cloud may become the solution as the debate between public vs private cloud becomes so 2013. The industry’s experts will debate on when the hybrid clouds are and are not the be all and end all and if the infrastructure supporting the hybrid clouds really matters. As stated by IBM, “Dynamic hybrid cloud environments are harmonizing computing demands and capabilities – public and private clouds, on and off-premise clouds, and traditional IT environments.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'CIOs need to know how to have good conversations with their staff Image Credit. More and more CIOs are finding themselves in charge of global IT departments. This is posing a unique problem for them: given the importance of information technology, how can they connect with the members of their IT department in order to determine what is really going on and what really needs to be done?

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

'By Kimberly Kelly MagicBands. When I first heard about the new MagicBands Disney started using about a month ago I was pretty skeptical. I did not understand what purpose these bands would serve other than proving that Disney is getting even more creepy. But when you think about it, Disney is very driven to achieve optimal performance with everything they do.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

'Hosting Mac minis is proving to be good business for a handful of colocation providers that specialize in hosting web sites on the small, square computers from Apple. This week Mac Mini Vault has just added a second data center location in Phoenix.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

'Cloud computing transitions information technology (IT) from being "systems of physically integrated hardware and software" to "systems of virtually integrated services". This transition makes interoperability the difference between the success and failure of IT deployments, especially in the Federal government. Recent government IT failures like the healthcare portal roll out highlight this critical difference.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: We saw the story below on the CIA website and wanted to share it with you. These are good anecdotal stories. The one one Keyhole is especially important for technologists to know. The investment and encouragement by government and the national security community ended up really changing the technology landscape for the better. – bg.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Dupont Fabros'' ACC7 will be the company''s biggest and most efficient data center ever, with an expected PUE of 1.14 or lower. The facility employs a new design that takes advantage of medium voltage, a new cooling system, and offers better customer flexibility.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

'Ford’s data scientist: Keep all the data and sort it out later — Tech News and Analysis. Quote : Ford Data Scientist Mike Cavaretta, talks about just how important all that social media output along with machine data could be to drive (ha!) the design and production of better cars. Oh, and sell more of them. As we enter the connected car era, the importance of accurate, actionable data will only get more critical.

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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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The Investing Edge

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

'The statistics don’t lie: 2013 was the year of mobile. More than two billion mobile devices were shipped globally last year. The number of mobile phones now matches the world’s population, and mobile devices overtook PCs both in units sold and as the most common means for accessing the Web. Global mobile traffic now accounts for 15 percent of all internet traffic.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Everyone everywhere is consistently seeking more common platforms to build capabilities on. This includes common stacks and protocols for all technologies, and software defined everything. There is also a continual march toward common operating concepts (ISO, CMMI, ITIL). Increasingly the environments for developers (IDE) are also common.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'LinkedIn plans to add another data center next year to support its continued growth. In its quarterly earnings call last week, LinkedIn said it intends to open a new facility to complement sites in Virginia and Texas.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

'We may be a long way away from the datacenter vision that VMware calls software defined data center (SDDC) or what Microsoft calls the cloud based data center, but we have arrived at the virtual first data center. The SDDC is the idea that the entire data center is an abstracted concept that is controlled by software. You have the same infrastructure components of as in a physical data center.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

'In this article, I’ll show you how to install Ubuntu packages from a specific repository. It’s not that this is a terribly difficult process, but it also isn’t necessarily intuitive for those who haven’t had to do it before. I ran into this while trying to install an alpha release of LXC 1.0.0 for my recent post on automatically connecting LXC to Open vSwitch (OVS).

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

'By Bob Gourley With this post I am excited to announce the merger of two of our sites into one. CTOlabs.com is being merged into CTOvision.com. These two sites grew up for different purposes but have have now grown together to the point where merging them makes sense. This step will help us focus providing the most relevant content to our readers and we believe will help readers conducting market research find the information they need faster.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

'CyrusOne has been noticeably absent from the Northern Virginia data center scene. A land purchase shows that it''s about to change. Can Loudoun County handle yet another competitor in a data center cluster that is extremely crowded? Most likely, yes.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'I don’t look at the “partnership” of VMware and Google on the VDI client for Chromebook as a validation of the future of VDI. I believe it actually helps to further my argument that VDI will be regulated to the role similar to that of mainframe terminal emulators. Windows applications running on Chromebooks don’t align with the vision of cloud based application consumption.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'2013 wrapped up with a flurry of industry activity including some acquisitions (Avago buying LSI and Seagate acquiring Xyratex among others). Likewise 2014 so far is continuing the momentum living up to the mantra that while there may be economic challenges, there is no such thing as a data or information recession.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

'By Bob Gourley If you have a technology with a proven capability for enterprises you have probably already started thinking about how you should work with the big systems integrators that serve the federal market. You probably feel in your gut that partnering with them is the way to go. They absolutely need to be part of your strategy. But there are key considerations.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

'The data center has become the central point of modern IT. Now, find out why many organizations are building their business around their data center.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Raise your consciousness of the balance, and that, in and of itself, makes a world of difference. Modern organizations have many hidden paradoxes, for example, customer satisfaction or employee satisfaction, which one comes first? Analytics or intuition, how to make a better decision? Here is another interesting dot connection debate: Standardization vs.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

About 4 years ago, I worked for a small integrator and was tasked with designing a VDI infrastructure solution for 1,000 desktops.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

'By Bob Gourley There are special technologies that need to be considered in modernizing approaches to ensuring security and risk mitigation. A short list of those we like include: Fixmo , Centripetal Networks , Invincea , Triumfant. There are also very important non-technological issues to consider in this domain, including the history of conflict in things cyber.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

'The Week in Review: Google invest billions in infrastructure, Facebook hacks data center construction, Dell and AMD eye the ARM market, Sweden''s super-sized Bitcoin mine, Apple building a CDN.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Customer Experience design is at front-line to bridge industrial productivity with digital delight It’s the age of the customer; customer-centricity becomes a strategic imperative for businesses across the sectors. However, the main problem is that Digital more than often gets viewed as a bolt-on to the business rather than an integral part of how the business should operate in a connected environment.

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A Screw's Loose

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'I seem to get into a debate every single day at work. Then it spills over to twitter or someone who is asking me for advice or just pontificating. It starts out innocuously at first. People want to talk about mobile. They dive into smartphones and eventually end up at tablets and then stop. That’s [.].

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'By Ryan Fahey There are many reasons to study tech trends, but one that really hits home is to consider the impact trends may have on your career. Intense School recently spoke with Tracy Lenzner, founder and chief executive officer of LenznerGroup , a New York-based executive search firm, about this very subject. Lenzner is a thought-leader in the enterprise security, technology risk, privacy, and compliance arenas.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

'At the VMware Partner Exchange event Fusion-io (FIO) announced comprehensive updates to its full portfolio of flash-fueled virtualization solutions based on Fusion ioMemory.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Digital convergence accelerates digital flow, improves digital fluency and bridges digital divides Digitalization is paradoxical, on one side, it is over-complex to create many new divides and uncertainties; on the other side, digital means convergence, connectivity and collaboration. Here are three technological components of digital convergences. Convergence of Enterprise IT & Consumerization of IT: W e are entering the new age-the convergence of enterprise IT and consumerization of IT, Di

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