CTOvision
FEBRUARY 17, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: we saw this article on the CIA website and wanted to share it with you. Although it does not have much details, it has enough information to get your mind going about the environment and operations in this fast paced environment and is well worth a ready by anyone interested in analysis, national […].
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
'After a lengthy career in the radio industry, Buddy Rizer is working closely with the data center sector in his role as Director of Economic Development in Loudoun County, Virginia, which is home to 56 data centers and 5.2 million square feet of mission-critical space.
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Eric D. Brown
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
'We often read anecdotal evidence of how companies and consultants are using big data to solve ‘big’ problems but it is rare that we see real world examples of the use of analytics and data to solve real-world business problems for small and midsized businesses. IBM recently reported on two examples of SMB’s using big data to better manage their business in a piece titled “ Here’s What Salame and Sequined Dresses Have in Common ”.
The Accidental Successful CIO
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
'CIOs need to help teach their company to look before going Image Credit. You might be having the best day that you’ve ever had since you accepted the CIO job and then all of sudden it hits you: what am I doing to protect the company from the risks that it faces? IT, of all departments, poses one of the biggest doorways for risk to enter your company because of the importance of information technology.
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
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. If you find our open technology context and analysis of use please consider evaluating our subscription-only research and analysis service CTOvision Pro. CTOvision Pro provides access to more in-depth analysis and reporting. Subscribers receive a bi-weekly newsletter with up to date context and analysis that can help you apply emerging technologies to your mission needs.
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
'Today’s organizations understand that quickly storing, securing, accessing and analyzing data, while managing it securely and cost-effectively, can mean the difference between business success and failure. Enterprises will continue to demand IT infrastructures that allow them to rapidly and.
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Eric D. Brown
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
'Sponsored by Dimension Data. In Thinking about Robust Strategies for BYOD and Mobile , I wrote: A robust strategy for BYOD and mobility requires a re-thinking of the entire enterprise strategy. While re-thinking doesn’t equate to re-working, it does mean a complete end-to-end revisit of the enterprise strategy to ensure BYOD and mobile devices are well represented in everything from security to backup to accessibility.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
'By Bob Gourley DARPA is advancing the science of robot-human teams that can be deployed to respond to natural disasters and other events deemed too dangerous for first responders. from American Forces Press Service News Feed. DARPA Official: Human-Robot Teams Key to Disaster Response. By Cheryl Pellerin. American Forces Press Service. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2014 – In the future, when an earthquake or tsunami strikes a populated area or a terrorist attack decimates a city, teams of disaster experts
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 17, 2014
'Google is planning to expand its data center footprint in Dublin, Ireland with a new $200 million facility, according to reports in the Irish press. The project continues the building boom in the western outskirts of Dublin.
Cloud Musings
FEBRUARY 17, 2014
'You are invited to attend the Cloud Webinar Series: Why State & Local Governments Should be Prepared for Cloud. This educational webinar is brought to you by RISC Networks , and will be hosted on BrightTalk.com at 12:00 pm on March 26, 2014. The webinar will present Moving to the Cloud: Expert Insights by Special Guest, GovCloud Network Founder (@GovCloud) Mr.Kevin Jackson.
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Eric D. Brown
FEBRUARY 16, 2014
'Innovate on Purpose: People are our most important asset. Quote : Innovation is vitally, critically dependent on good people who are passionate about innovation and fully engaged and committed. Note the adjectives: passionate, engaged, committed. It can be difficult to find passionate, engaged and committed people for any activity, much less one that is unusual, fraught with risk and unlikely to be repeated.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Data Science Powered CloudSOC™ Solution Enables Security for Cloud Applications and Services by Providing Transaction Visibility, Threat Detection, Controls and Forensics Analysis. SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 18, 2014) – Elastica today emerged from stealth mode and released its CloudSOC™ solution for making cloud applications and services secure for use by companies and their employees.
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
'As Intel rolled out its new Xeon E7 v2 processors, leading IT vendors promptly announced updated servers integrating the new chips, which support in-memory technology for improved analytics support.
A CIO's Voice
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
'As I continue to look for my new CIO role. I am coming across some organizations that are looking outside their respect industry for talent. I recently interviewed with a publishing company who said flat out they want someone not from the publishing world. “Why?” I asked. They felt that publishing expertise is lagging behind other industries in their use of technology.
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Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
'It seems as if APIs are popping up everywhere these days. While this isn’t a bad thing, it does mean that IT professionals need to have a better understanding of how to interact with these APIs. In this post, I’m going to discuss how to use the popular command line utility curl to interact with a couple of RESTful APIs—specifically, the OpenStack APIs and the VMware NSX API.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
'By Bob Gourley If you are a DC based technologist a great opportunity to learn from one of America’s greatest technologists is coming up on 5 March 2014. Doug Cutting, Cloudera’s Chief Architect and highly respected, community focused creator of capabilities like Apache Hadoop will be discussing the Enterprise Data Hub. The Enterprise Data Hub is a capability that can help enterprises address many challenges in a very cost effective, efficient and agile way.
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 17, 2014
'German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposed the creation of a separate European communications network that would keep data within the EU''s borders and not allow it to pass through U.S. based servers.
The Investing Edge
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
'Since the advent of IBM’s punch cards in the 1920s, the information technology industry has fostered improved decision making through data analysis. But the pace of progress has accelerated dramatically over the last decade, with storage costs dropping at an incredible pace (the price for a gigabyte of storage has fallen 99.5 percent since 2000 ), and internet connectivity becoming essentially ubiquitous.
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Virtualized Greek
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
'As the saying goes, “Two things are certain in life. We pay taxes, and we die.” One of my more nerve striking posts and point of views is on the death of virtual desktop infrastructure VDI. I understand the tension. People have banked their careers and in some cases their entire business model on VDI. To say that their investment and sacrifice is just a short term investment is a very charged statement.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
'By Bob Gourley We have been tracking this since Marc Andreessen called the trend out in 2011 (see “ Why Software is Eating the World “) and are especially interested in how the trend will impact the world of the enterprise. We think this trend will continue, since it is being fed by growing proliferation of smart phones with increasingly powerful processors and faster/more reliable bandwidth.
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
'Apple is preparing to expand its data center campus in Maiden, North Carolina, which supports the delivery of content for its iTunes and iCloud services.
Sean Daniel
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
'I can’t stress how important backing up is, I even have a special tag just for tips and tricks with backup, across various technology. So you might think, well, my contacts are *in* the cloud, so they are safe right? Wrong! If you don’t take backups into your own hands, you can have issues down the road, even with all the resiliency built into these Cloud services, you can loose data, here are just a few ways: The Delete key could get stuck on your wireless keyboard and end up deleting a majori
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Future of CIO
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
KPIs need to have both High Impact and High Information Context. Key Performance Indicators are set based on how the company goal/objective, business units or project defines success. Each of these entities has the different experience, strengths, skills, people and resources available to them and would deploy their blueprint differently to achieve their strategic mission.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
'By Kimberly Kelly Samsung is at it again, and hopefully their new Galaxy S5 model wont have as many pitfalls as some consumers say the S4 did. I can’t have been the only one on the Galaxy S4 bandwagon that was a little let down after the phone’s release last year. But there is hope for us Samsung lovers yet, Galaxy is set to release their new phone in less than two weeks.
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
'Confused by the software-defined buzz? Our guide to SDx technologies provides explanations and examples of the many ways in which software is redefining the ways data center and cloud infrastructure is managed.
Nutanix
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
I am delighted to announce that Nutanix has received the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award from Omega Management in recognition of our outstanding customer service and support throughout 2013.
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Future of CIO
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
Change is the very nature of technology, and technology is more often than not, the driver of change! Nowadays, IT organizations play more significant role in building business capability, agility, and maturity, and the predictors of the success of any organization are the quality of leadership and the strength of the culture, what changes shall CIOs make in the culture of IT team, and how can IT even become the business culture catalyst?
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 17, 2014
'By Bob Gourley The continued march to cloud based services that connect to appliance-like devices now includes a full spectrum of options including private clouds, public clouds, edge clouds and blended clouds. This move to cloud capabilities is transforming business models and operating approaches. It is also having a direct impact on server sales globally.
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
'Zettaset is granted a new U.S. patent for Hadoop high availability, Couchbase releases Server 2.5 Enterprise edition of its NoSQL database, and Pentaho powers big data analytics with Storm and YARN.
Nutanix
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.
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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