CTOvision
AUGUST 11, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Genomics is a critically important discipline in contemporary biomedical research that takes a comprehensive approach to determining and understanding the structure and function of DNA to advance our understanding of life and our ability to make lives better for all. For IT professionals we can contribute to this domain through Bioinformatics.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 12, 2013
'The growth is back at Rackspace Hosting. The cloud computing specialist added 4,762 physical servers in the second quarter of 2013, an average of 52 servers per day.
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CIO Musings
AUGUST 16, 2013
'A recent strategic planning exercise I attended focused on a discussion of the "Balanced Scorecard" concept. This helped tie together a lot of concepts that had been rummaging around in my head and in my organization for quite a while. I must pay homage here to Dr. Robert Kaplan, one of the originators of the Balanced Scorecard concept. I also credit Mr.
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 14, 2013
'It’s How The CIO puts the pieces together that makes big data valuable Image Credit. The era of big data has arrived. CIOs everywhere are swimming in a sea of data and only now are they starting to get the tools that will allow them to make sense of what they have. It turns out that there is another problem that has arrived at the same time and right now there is not a clear answer to how best to deal with it: how to back up all of that data.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
CTOvision
AUGUST 13, 2013
'By BryanHalfpap While at Defcon (the largest computer security conference in the United States) I overheard it described as a sort of “Hacker New-Years holiday” If that’s true, then maybe it’s time to go over one of the trends I’ve seen popping up for a while that has gained a lot of momentum this past year: Wireless hacking.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 16, 2013
'The abstraction of the hardware layer within the data center means we are able to utilize new types of controls around our data center. New technologies are being deployed within the data center at a very fast pace. Bill Kleyman looks at how the future data center environment will be managed.
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Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 11, 2013
'Open Innovation: The Heart of Small Business | Free Enterprise. Quote : The small business often has the advantage of proximity to their customers, but this proximity also means that it may be difficult to "see the wood for the trees" Yet thanks to new social, mobile and connected technologies, there is much a small business can do to identify new areas of value in their products and services.
CTOvision
AUGUST 11, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Vogon’s are not bogons, but look like them. With this post we will dive a bit deeper into bogosity in networks, paying particular attention to the fundamental element of bogosity, the Bogon. We will then articulate a use case for the Centripetal Networks RuleGate which can ensure bogons never get to your enterprise. As a prelude let me first say there is a very high likelihood that your ISP is sending bogons your way right now, using the bandwidth you paid for to do so.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Amazon Web Services releases a trio of customer case studies that show the company''s appeal across a range of needs. This includes Schumacher Group,a growing physician management company that deals with sensitive medical information.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 13, 2013
'This year as I hosted AWS Summits in 12 different cities around the world, I met thousands of developers who are building powerful new applications for smartphones, tablets and other connected devices, all running mobile cloud backends on AWS. These developers want to engage their users with timely, dynamic content even when the users haven’t opened their mobile apps.
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.
The Investing Edge
AUGUST 14, 2013
'We’ve long been excited at Ascent about the tremendous potential gains from the analysis of data and the complex business problems it can solve. And now I believe we’ve reached the point that organizations need to begin the shift toward data-driven decision making that can move the needle. But for many businesses, this shift is easier said than done.
CTOvision
AUGUST 13, 2013
'By Bob Gourley CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com , has just announced a white paper titled “ Empowering Analysts with Big Data.” This paper, the results of four years of study and assessments and use case review focused on the use of Big Data in the federal government, provides design tips, concepts of operation and overarching design requirements which can inform any big data sol
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 14, 2013
'If you were trying to use Outlook.com to email a link to a NYTimes.com story about events in Egypt, it''s not been a good day. Both Microsoft and the New York Times have been trouble shooting service problems.
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 16, 2013
'Welcome to part 2 of the Learning NVP blog series. In part 1 of the series, I provided a high-level overview of the NVP architecture and components. In this post, I’ll dive into a bit more detail on one key component of the architecture: the NVP controllers and controller cluster. (Just a quick reminder: although I’m talking about NVP 3.1—our publicly available, GA product already running in production with customers—it’s important to remember that the NVP architec
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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.
Storage IO Blog
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Today computer and data storage memory vendor Viking announced that SSD vendor Solidfire has deployed their SATADIMM modules in DDR3 DIMM (e.g. Random Access Memory (RAM) main memory) slots of their SF SSD based storage solution. Solidfire SD solution with SATADIMM via Viking Nand flash SATA SSD in a DDR3 DIMM slot? Per Viking, Solidfire […].
CTOvision
AUGUST 15, 2013
'By Bob Gourley We previously brought your attention to a Defense Science Board study on Cloud Computing (see: DSB Report on Reliability in a Digital Cloud ). I continue to believe this report captures critically important, actionable information and makes conclusions that should form the underpinning of DoD IT modernization efforts. It is a good read.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 13, 2013
'Data center barriers can impact business operations. For example, 84 percent of data centers have had issues with power, space, cooling capacity, assets and uptime. These issues went on to negatively impact the business.
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Among IT pros, it’s quite common these days to have a home lab/home network complete with DNS, DHCP, hypervisors, storage, etc. As IT pros, it’s also quite common to have to use a virtual private network (VPN) solution to connect back to our employers’ corporate networks in order to get work done. In this post, I’ll show you how you can reconcile these two (sometimes conflicting) situations with a relatively little-known feature in OS X.
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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.
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 13, 2013
'Episode 23 of Tech Talks. With VMworld 2013 fast approaching the star of the show is expected to be NSX, VMware’s Network Hypervisor. What impact will it have on the industry.
CTOvision
AUGUST 16, 2013
'By Kimberly Kelly Entrepreneur Elon Musk has envisioned an ultra fast transportation system called Hyperloop. The Hyperloop is not only fast but it would be two times faster than the fastest commercial train in the world. On Monday, Musk released plans for this project. Though the project is highly speculative, in the past Musk has sent private rockets into outer space, so the project shouldn’t be dismissed all too quickly.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 15, 2013
'Enterprise solid-state storage system provider Skyera boosts capacity and performance 10 times over its previous generation Enterprise Storage array, and forms strategic partnerships with Toshiba and SK hynix.
Storage IO Blog
AUGUST 12, 2013
'DRAM, DIMM, DDR3, nand lash memory, SSD, stating what’s often assumed Often what’s assumed is not always the case. For example in along with around server, storage and IO networking circles including virtual as well as cloud environments terms such as nand (Negated AND or NOT And) flash memory aka (Solid State Device or SSD), […].
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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.
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 15, 2013
'I split my social editorial content from my technical punditry mainly because I don’t want my non-tech friends to suffer through my technical mumbo jumbo. Technology people may find the my social view interesting if nothing else but, “normal” folk don’t find the technical stuff interesting at all (just ask my wife after she makes the mistake of asking me about my day).
CTOvision
AUGUST 16, 2013
'By Bob Gourley One of the challenges in very popular events like the FedForum is the breakout sessions are all worth attending but you can’t be in more than one place at the same time. Fortunately much of the content from these sessions has been captured. You can see video and download slides from all the sessions. The most important session, to me, is the very short introduction by Anthony Robbins, Vice President of Federal for Brocade.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 15, 2013
'A survey from Rackspace shows that the majority (60 per cent) of IT decision-makers see hybrid cloud as the culmination of their cloud journey, rather than a stepping stone to using the public cloud alone for all their cloud needs.
Future of CIO
AUGUST 13, 2013
Work to make complicated matters “less complicated," to enforce agility. A simple definition of IT Governance is how to manage IT - "… the leadership and organizational structures and processes that ensure the organization’s IT sustains and extends the organization’s strategies and objectives." (Governance Institute). There is nothing simple about managing IT, you can wish the complexity away, but since the complexity is the result of human nature, wishing and achieving are two entirely differen
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Nutanix
AUGUST 13, 2013
Predictions for the 10th annual VMworld, taking place August 25-29 in San Francisco, are rolling in from many corners of the media, analyst and vendor landscape.
CTOvision
AUGUST 15, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Cloudera and Zoomdata Introduce the Next Generation of Data Analytics in a 27 Aug webinar (11am Eastern). As the sheer volume of data grows, government agencies are confronted with the challenge of how to manage and analyze Big Data. Cloudera and its Hadoop distribution (CDH) is the established leader for agencies looking for the most advanced distribution with the best support.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 16, 2013
'Hoping to help customers conduct cloud-based proof of concept trials for object storage, Quantum (QTM) launched a new Lattus Demo Lab, located inside Switch SuperNAP data centers.
Future of CIO
AUGUST 12, 2013
It is the Business Architecture that defines the means for the strategy while management defines the means for architecture implementation. Enterprise Architecture is a synthesis of the Enterprise Business Architecture and Enterprise IT Architecture disciplines. BA should provide the business context for EA Here are more perspectives upon BA: A Business Architecture is a part of an enterprise architecture related to corporate business , the documents , and diagrams that describe the architectura
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