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GSA Cancels two more conferences, ICS' are still under attack.

CTOvision

'Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Cloud security service protects WordPress content ? ?Developer NorseCrop has launched a cloud security service designed to protect open-source content management.

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Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, March 18, 2013. Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects.

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Fountainhead: A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, March 18, 2013. A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies. These are the best of times. These are the the worst of times. These are the times of the "cloud era" where two technology leaders are struggling to dominate the IT infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud markets.

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You've Got The Data, Now What CIO? (The CIO job is to use the CIO position to communicate the importance of information technology)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Just collecting data isn’t enough, now you need to know what to do with it Image Credit. As CIO, a big part of your job is to help your company realize the importance of information technology and, based on this, help them to both collect and store data. Once you have it, you need to scrub it, maintain it, and protect it. However, has anyone every told you how to do the most important thing with it – use it?

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Experts Tackle Enterprise Mobility at Latest B2B IT Forum

The Investing Edge

'Despite the monumental traffic on Tuesday night (where did that come from?!?), we had well over 100 folks at our most recent B2B IT Forum, and the feedback has been universally positive. Our panel of experts, led by moderator Chris Hazelton of 451 Research , provided a compelling and informative discussion on the shift to mobile within organizations of all sizes.

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The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2013 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Netflix has over the years become one of the absolute best engineering powerhouses for building cloud-native applications. At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Powershell: Public Desktop Environmental Variable

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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Surprise: Cisco doesn’t like SDN

Virtualized Greek

'Some pretty interesting quotes from Cisco’s CTO’s reveals that Cisco will try to leverage their dominance in enterprise networking to try and stave off the challenge of SDN. In a NetworkWorld article Cisco’s CTO is quoted as saying: “We see the network as a platform where applications can be programmed, where information can be processed and where data and business processes can be much more efficient” To me this sounded very similar to the overall goal of SDN.

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The Future of Abundance

Future of CIO

“ Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. ” Wayne Dyer Abundance is directly related to who we ARE: B ehind the eyes, the smile, and the body. The "abundance" is about awareness, within you, is who you ARE. It cannot be rocked, directed, or manipulated by anything. Once recognized, there are no limits, and, this is abundance.

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Call for Networking Topics

Scott Lowe

'I’m getting ready to start a “Virtual Networking 101″ series of blog posts, where I’m going to try to help introduce the ideas and concepts of virtual networking to VM admins that might not be familiar with these concepts. These are not deep dives; rather, I’m aiming to provide enough introductory knowledge that VM admins are who aren’t familiar with this stuff can at least understand what’s going on.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Mick's IT Blogs: Windows 8: Opening multiple application instances

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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Hmmm… The value of the vExpert membership to VirtualizedGeek

Virtualized Greek

'If you are a normal reader of VirtualizedGeek you’ll know that I favor VMware as a solution but this isn’t a VMware website. I am a virtualization evangelist. I believe the blog reflects the fact that I have a board tech interest spread across several different vendors. With this focus in mind I’ve been looking at the vExpert program.

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Is Communication the Bottleneck in Decision Making

Future of CIO

“ The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. ” - Peter Drucker Communication is KEY to modern management, however, communication is not just the soft discipline, it’s both art and science. For example, there’re communication challenges between management and employees, there’s “lost in translation” in cross-functional conversations, how to overcome such challenges?

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Moving Across the Channel

Nutanix

After twenty-five years in the IT channel, including positions at six different solutions providers, writing columns for three different channel magazines, and seats on partner advisory councils for several manufacturers- I’ve switched sides.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Powershell: Adding powershell Run-as.

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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Video Games: Expanding The Industry

Virtualized Greek

'About the Author: Sgt. M (Marcus Ramsey) is a student at Northern Illinois. Marcus is looking to obtain a degree in Computer Science and pursue a career in the gaming industry. Its easy to notice that video games have become a big deal. Video games have become very profitable over the years. An article that I read recently stated that video games are not just a leisure activity anymore, but that it has become a serious business.

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Building success in the future of work: T-shaped, Pi-shaped, and Comb-shaped skills

Trends in the Living Networks

This morning we completed the five-city Tomorrow-Ready CIO event series , run by CIO magazine and sponsored by IBM. My keynote across the five locations was on the Future of the CIO, using a Future of the CIO framework I recently created. I hope to write a number of posts in the next little while on some of the more important ideas covered in my framework and keynote.

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What?No Angry Birds? - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. What…No Angry Birds? by Brian Katz on March 20, 2013 · 2 comments. As I rode to the airport this morning, an interesting conversation sprung up on twitter. It was a continuation of one that had started briefly the night before. It had started innocuously enough about the app Angry Birds, the game where you launch different birds into flight in order to destroy some pigs and their dwellings.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.

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What is the single most Important Tool every CIO should Use?

Future of CIO

HOW the 'tool' is used is as important, if not more so, than what the tool happens to be. It's a 'Goldilocks" kind of thing – you don't want to be too hot, or too cold; too big, or too small, etc. Effective tools will always help CIOs achieve more, First of all, the most important "tool" is “people”. It is always about "who", not "what". The best tool a CIO can use is his/her brain and along with it, the wisdom and intuition that are needed to function as a C-level executive The modern CIO needs

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Poll: Scariest Dr. Who Villain

Virtualized Greek

'With the new Dr. Who series quickly approaching, I’ve started chatting with my daughter on the origins of the new mysterious companion. Then I thought about how emotional the new series has been compared to the Dr. Who I grew up on. The new series is definitely different that the stories I grew to love but I’ve much enjoyed the reboot.

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VirtualizedGeek Tech Talks Episode 5

Virtualized Greek

'Episode 5 is all about SDN since you guys can’t get enough of SDN talk. Network as a Service as I wished it. Cisco really doesn’t like SDN.

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Finally taking my VCP 5-DV exam

Virtualized Greek

'I don’t work for a VMware partner and I don’t normally put hands to keyboard for production systems so, I’ve really not had the need to take the VCP 5-DV exam. However, VMware was running a 50% off special and I figured this was too good to pass up and my previous employer did invest in the VMware Install, Configure and Manage course.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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My son almost made me cry

Virtualized Greek

'This was meant for GrowinUpChi.com but I posted on VG inadvertently but I’ll keep it here. So, I’m back in Chicago. Part of the motive is financial as I get to reduce my living expenses moving back into the old place. But, I could have rented the house out and still saw a benefit. The main reason I’m back is to help bring about change.

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Who moved my cheese?

Virtualized Greek

'There are certain tech companies that I’ve found myself to be fond of over the years. They include Novell, Microsoft, VMware and Cisco. These tech giants have helped me establish a long successful career. Eachwere at one point disruptive and grew to become market leaders due to their innovation and their willingness to question the status quo and change how we look at enterprise tech.

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