CTOvision
DECEMBER 19, 2013
'By Bob Gourley If you love learning about technology this is a great time to be alive. There is so much out there worth learning. And there are so many free and open information sources. The only problem is picking your information sources. You have to prioritize or you can bury yourself in useless or even counterproductive info. With this post I want to highlight one of my favorites, SiliconANGLE.
CIO Musings
DECEMBER 15, 2013
'I just finished a graduate degree in public leadership from Virginia State University. My research for the degree focused on the opportunity to improve citizen satisfaction with local government by leveraging the trends of social media and the internet. I conducted an online survey, receiving 153 responses from 20 states. 70% of the responses were from Virginia.
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Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 15, 2013
'There were wide range of causes for data center downtime in 2013. The year''s major outages covered the spectrum, affecting clouds, companies, payment networks and governments at the federal, state and local level. Here’s our list of the Top 10 outages of 2013.
Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Big data is everywhere these days. Everyone’s talking about using data to make better decisions. According to most, big data is the answer to everything (although I’ve argued that big data isn’t the answer ). Many organizations from large to small are trying to find ways to collect and analyze data to make business decisions. Additionally, some organizations are looking for ways to collect even more data than they currently do because the current thinking is that ‘more data’ equates to ‘more in
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
DECEMBER 16, 2013
'By Bob Gourley If you are a national security professional we most highly recommend pausing to watch the video at this link and embedded below. It is the video of a 60 minutes examination of NSA which includes interviews of General Alexander, Rick Ledgett and several NSA analysts. It also includes first ever public footage of key NSA watchfloors and analytical workspaces.
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 18, 2013
'Not all standards are what they appear to be Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job, you are always on the lookout for ways to simplify what the IT department is doing in order to boost the importance of information technology for your company. One way to make this happen is to have the department adopt the use of standards. You would think that that would be the end of it; however, those vendors are sneaky devils and you need to be careful that you don’t select a standard that is r
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Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 20, 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
CTOvision
DECEMBER 19, 2013
'By Bob Gourley In the short white board talk at this link and below, Jacob Cornelius of Pentaho provides a good overview of the Pentaho analytics platform, a platform that encompasses all the elements of an enterprise analytics solution, starting with the Pentaho data integration, the bridge that accesses data where it is and allows the blending of data from any source.
Mick's IT Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2013
'I had the not so pleasure of replacing the screen on my wife''s iPad 2. There are plenty of videos on Youtube on how to do this. I am providing some tips on what I learned while doing this. It takes about 30 seconds of leaving the hair dryer on high with hot air to soften the adhesive Make sure you keep the hair dryer only on the edge of the iPad blowing away from it.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 16, 2013
'There were wide range of causes for data center downtime in 2013. The year''s major outages covered the spectrum, affecting clouds, companies, payment networks and governments at the federal, state and local level. Here’s our list of the Top 10 outages of 2013.
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Virtualized Greek
DECEMBER 16, 2013
'In my opinion, VMware is much too dependent on their vSphere product suite. This isn’t an analysis of VMware’s sales or market share. This is a practical look at innovation and what happens when companies quickly grows and can’t continue to innovate in ways that keeps their customers asking them to take more of their money. In my role as an advisor to the enterprise, I try to reasonably look as far ahead in the future of enterprise IT.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'By Prayson Pate Openness is one of the most-cited advantages of cloud-based applications, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In this context, what does open really mean? I posit that there are four key attributes that define openness in this context: documented, standardized, open sourced and inclusive. Any claims of openness by suppliers should be evaluated against these criteria if for no other reason than to clarify their position.
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 18, 2013
'In this post, I’m going to show you how to manage Open vSwitch (OVS) using the popular open source configuration management tool Puppet. This is not the first time I’ve written about this topic; in the past I showed you how to automate OVS configuration with Puppet via a hack utilizing some RHEL-OVS integrations. This post, however, focuses on the use of an actual Puppet module that will manage the configuration of OVS, a much cleaner solution—in my view, at least—than l
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'A number of dedicated hosting providers are running short of servers to lease, and attributing the shortages to heavy buying by customers mining for digital currencies. Surge buying by Primecoin miners has tested the capacity of at least one cloud provider, but others see opportunity.
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Future of CIO
DECEMBER 15, 2013
Take strategic continuity with continual improvement in realization over time. The rapidly changing business dynamic makes strategy creation not less important, but more critical to compete and thrive for the business's long- term thriving. And one of the most crucial tasks for top executives is to spend a significant portion of time to 'Think Strategically.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'By Bob Gourley The video embedded below and at this link provides a three minute overview of some current and future robots. It is short and exciting and well worth three minutes of your time: From the video description: Robots are coming of age. As part of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, Lockheed Martin is developing autonomous systems that work together with human operators.
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 20, 2013
'I’m back with another “Reducing the Friction” blog post, this time to talk about training an e-mail spam filter. As you may recall if you read one of the earlier posts (may I suggest this one and this one ?), I use the phrase “reducing the friction” to talk about streamlining and simplifying commonly-performed tasks so as to allow you to improve your own personal efficiency and/or adopt more efficient habits or workflows.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 18, 2013
'Robotics will never replace the need for unique human interaction within the data center. But robotics may help automate repetitive tasks, freeing up professionals to do bigger and better things, and thus boosting increase productivity.
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Future of CIO
DECEMBER 17, 2013
The future of the organization is more organic than mechanic. With increasing speed of change and exponential growth of information, the hierarchical organization is no longer effective enough to adapt to the changes, how to design an organization of futures to run in digital speed with ultra-modern leadership style, and how to build up a dynamic, adaptable and anti-fragile digital business?
CTOvision
DECEMBER 19, 2013
'By Bob Gourley SecureNinjaTV’s Alicia Webb continues our coverage of FEDcyber 2013 by speaking with Guidance Software’s Bob Greenberg about insider threat, vulnerabilities and malware attacks. Guidance Software is recognized worldwide as the industry leader in digital investigative solutions. Its EnCase® Enterprise platform is used by numerous government agencies, more than 65 percent of the Fortune 100, and more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500, to conduct digital investigations
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Some time ago, I showed you how to use Puppet to add Ubuntu Cloud Archive support to your Ubuntu installation. Since that time, OpenStack has had a new release (the Havana release) and the Ubuntu Cloud Archive repository has been updated with new packages to support the Havana release. In this post, I’ll show you an updated snippet of code to take advantage of these newer packages in the Ubuntu Cloud Archive repository.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 20, 2013
'Data center managers pay as much attention to monitoring, managing and maintaining the physical systems - power, cooling, and so on - that support the IT equipment as IT managers do to their IT assets. And just as IT management has evolved to deal with the increasing complexity of the IT.
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Virtualized Greek
DECEMBER 18, 2013
'A follow-on to my “Is VMware a One Hit Wonder” post and what my ultimate question for VMware.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 18, 2013
'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: for more on this release see Fixmo’s page on SafeWatch. Fixmo SafeWatch is now available for download from the Google Play Store or the Apple iTunes store. Download the free version today to get started, and upgrade to the premium feature set at any time! STERLING, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fixmo, a leader in mobile security and data protection solutions, today announced the general availability of Fixmo SafeWatch, an innovative mobile privacy and
Future of CIO
DECEMBER 20, 2013
Innovation Risk Management Needs to be Innovative as well. Innovation is a systematic way of applying creativity in the real life and it takes disciplines to manage both opportunities and risks but what are the characteristics of an innovation risk management framework? The innovation risk management framework would need to be flexible and applicable to a dynamic situation: Digital strategies are changing frequently and innovation in its basic nature is a high-risk area; more often you are doing
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 14, 2013
'The Week in Review: Google brings Asia-Pac capacity online, Gartner sees $1 billion market for DCIM, Chef raises $32 million, cloud providers embrace flash, and Verizon buys a CDN.
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Virtualized Greek
DECEMBER 16, 2013
'Earlier I posted my goals for 2013. One of my biggest goals was to run 1500 miles. Read what I learned from my failed attempt. [link].
CTOvision
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'By Bob Gourley SecureNinjaTV’s Alicia Webb speaks with Enoch Long from Splunk while at FEDcyber 2013. Discussions focused on machine data and what kinds of insights companies can gain from it. Splunk® software collects, indexes and harnesses the machine-generated big data coming from the websites, applications, servers, networks, sensors and mobile devices that power business.
Future of CIO
DECEMBER 20, 2013
People are the CORE of Digital Transformation. Digital transformation is neither an IT project nor an operational change; it’s a strategic initiative and business leapfrogging. Digital transformation is also a journey which takes many building blocks, from mindset, strategy, to culture and capability etc, still, people are the CORE, it’s the transformation of people by people, but more specifically, who is accountable for digital transformation?
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 19, 2013
'Even if your organization is well-informed about the value of branch circuit power monitoring, and you are committed to doing it right, you might be curious about the best ways to choose and implement a power monitoring system, writes Jon Trout of TrendPoint. He outlines five best practices to.
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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