Sat.May 11, 2013 - Fri.May 17, 2013

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Liquid Robotics: An update on this particularly virtuous technology.

CTOvision

'It has been a while since we have written about our friends at Liquid Robotics. We imagine most of our readers are keeping their ears open for news on their capabilities, they are so widely known in tech circles just about.

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Fountainhead: A Tour of Switch's SuperNAP

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, May 13, 2013. A Tour of Switchs SuperNAP. I have to admit that I was prepared to be underwhelmed when I toured the Switch SuperNap in Las Vegas. After all, how impressive can a co-location facility be? Just slab, cooling, ping, pipe and power.

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Social Media and Public Employees - Part 1 - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Sunday, May 12, 2013. Social Media and Public Employees - Part 1. Note: I recently completed a class for my Masters degree on personnel management which required a paper.

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Why BYOD Spells DOOM For CIOs

The Accidental Successful CIO

'BYOD just might be a trap that has been set to snare a CIO Image Credit. Have you heard about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) craze that is sweeping companies worldwide? Employees have invested so much money along with time and effort into customizing their smartphones, tablets, etc. that they want to bring them to work and use them to do work. This is opening the door to a whole new world of problems for the person who has the CIO job….

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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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Would you like the truth about the NSA? Watch this one minute.

CTOvision

'Everyone in the national security establishment knows of NSA's Deputy Director, John C Inglis. He is without a doubt one of the most professional, competent, courageous leaders in the federal government. Like the vast.

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Transforming to a Big Data Organization

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. Thursday, May 16, 2013. Transforming to a Big Data Organization.

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Financing News: PerspecSys and the Cloud Data Security Opportunity

The Investing Edge

'Last week PerspecSys announced a new financing round that we participated in, alongside Paladin and Intel. We are very excited to be working with the team and our co-investors, and see tremendous potential for this company. Over the last 12 to 18 months, we have witnessed an almost seismic shift in the posture of large enterprise customers toward cloud-based applications.

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CloudCentral Announces Availability of PaaS, Powered by.

CTOvision

'Web and Global 2000 enterprises can now accelerate cloud adoption by leveraging the power of Database-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and much more with CloudCentral's new Cloud Services Portfolio. Canberra.

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DynamoDB Keeps Getting Better (and cheaper!) - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DynamoDB Keeps Getting Better (and cheaper!). By Werner Vogels on 15 May 2013 06:30 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). We love getting feedback so we can deliver the improvements and new features that really matter to our customers. You can see from the pace at which we roll out new functionality that teams across AWS take this very seriously.

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Can cyber-crime result in global financial systemic risk?

Trends in the Living Networks

'On Saturday I was interviewed on SBS World News about the ATM heist that netted $45 million from 40,000 withdrawals over 26 countries. The video of the TV news segment (start at 09:05) is available online until 19 May. It was an extremely sophisticated attack, involving not just hacking credit card payment processors and banks, but also eliminating the limits on prepaid debit cards before creating thousands of copies.

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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: SCCM: Initiate Hardware Inventory

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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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Five Years of Cloud Musings!!

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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Joint OpenStack Denver and Infracoders Denver Meetup - Scott Lowe

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The future of travel and tourism: safe adventures, real-time guidance, and new frontiers

Trends in the Living Networks

'Last week, as part of the ongoing weekly future series on the Morning Show, I spoke about the future of travel and tourism. Click on the image below to watch a video of the segment. Some of the things I talked about: * The impact of the ageing developing world population, including the quest for “safe adventures” and the likely continued rise of cruise ships as a way to travel. * The desire for greater experience in both travel and destination, resulting in the possibility of glass-

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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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Leadership vs. Position

Future of CIO

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome. - Booker T. Washington The managers at industry paradigm practice command-control through their 'positioned" authority power to achieve the management goal of efficiency, as talent are treated as resources or second priority while information is scarce.

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VirtualizedGeek Tech Talks Episode 13

Virtualized Greek

'Software Defined Data Center vs. Cloud Computing what’s the difference. You have to watch to find out.

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VM-centric Disaster Recovery Done Right

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Examining Open vSwitch Traffic Patterns

Scott Lowe

'In this post, I want to provide some additional insight on how the use of Open vSwitch (OVS) affects—or doesn’t affect, in some cases—how a Linux host directs traffic through physical interfaces, OVS internal interfaces, and OVS bridges. This is something that I had a hard time understanding as I started exploring more advanced OVS configurations, and hopefully the information I share here will be helpful to others.

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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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Three Starting Point upon GRC Program

Future of CIO

Organizations today encounter more risks than ever due to accelerated change, over-complex business dynamic, and hyper-competitive competition, hence, GRC (Governance, Risk Management and Compliance) program becomes a strategic imperative, but how to get it started, as the starting point is always challenging for managing complicated a program like GRC, especially now IT governance is converging with corporate governance and Risk Management doesn't mean risk mitigation only, at high level, it's

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Cyberhacked – Again

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'In the face of continuing breaches, what are Governments to Do? The depressing news made headlines in Washington State and nationwide last week – the Washington State Courts systems had been hacked , and about 160,000 social security numbers and the information from a million driver’s licenses was potentially exposed to hackers. This announcement was almost coincident with the news of $45 million stolen from the world’s cash machines, a problem with weak security in several private banks.

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The EA Dilemma of strategy versus standardization

Future of CIO

A good strategy takes creativity. Some strategies are, to choose a different vocabulary, "logical extensions of the current business" - they leverage the architecture rather than conflicting with it. What are further perspectives upon the EA Dilemma of Strategy vs. Standardization? he idea that boundaries and limits can produce boundless and limitless thinking seems counterintuitive and paradoxical.

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Using pf on OS X Mountain Lion

Scott Lowe

'I’ve written before about adding an extra layer of network security to your Macintosh by leveraging the BSD-level ipfw firewall, in addition to the standard GUI firewall and additional third-party firewalls (like Little Snitch ). In OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion, though, ipfw was deprecated in favor of pf , the powerful packet filter that I believe originated on OpenBSD.

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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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Is Reputation the responsibility of the Board

Future of CIO

BoD takes significant responsibilities to protect and nurture the reputation of a company. The organizations across the globe face more pressure and ambiguity these days, as medias continue to report " reputational ‘surprises’from some prestigious companies, and more organizations work hard to sustain their brand, but how to manage organizational reputation, and is reputation the responsibility of Board?