Sat.Feb 16, 2013 - Fri.Feb 22, 2013

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INSA Publishes White Paper on Intelligence Community Information.

CTOvision

'Insa_clear The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) has released a white paper documenting the vision and approach for enhancing enterprise information technology in support of intelligence and national.

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CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO: 2013 Cyber Security.

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! Wednesday, February 20, 2013. 2013 Cyber Security Executive Order & Local Governments.

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CIO's Need To Learn How To Defend Against The Insider Threat (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'It’s what lives inside that you have to be worried about…. As a CIO you have to spend a lot of time thinking about how to protect the company’s IT department. You think about hackers, viruses, Trojans, social engineering, and all of the other threats that we find in the modern definition of information technology. You buy firewalls and virus scanners and anything else that is sold to the IT sector to protect you.

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Parallel entrepreneurship goes mainstream

Trends in the Living Networks

Back in the 1990s I became enamoured of Bill Gross’s IdeaLab , which was spinning off new web companies initially housed in its own support ecosystem. I loved that it generated and developed its own projects rather than looking outside for ideas. Since then I’ve closely followed what I’ve thought of as “parallel entrepreneurship”, in contrast to the usual concept of serial entrepreneurship: establishing many ventures rather than doing them one by one.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Apple has been Hacked, Twitter Goes Public Secretly, HTC One vs.

CTOvision

'Today's Cyber News We Are Tracking: Apple has become one of the top Fortune 500 companies in the US to be hacked. Twitter is thinking about going public secretly. Smartphone and tablet maker HTC has introduced their.

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How to Conduct an Agile Story Sizing Meeting

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. Wednesday, February 20, 2013. How to Conduct an Agile Story Sizing Meeting.

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Does VMware know Cloud is all about the Developers?

Virtualized Greek

'If I were a certain CEO of a certain software company, I would be standing on a stage with a blade server jumping up and down yelling “Developers, Developers, Developers.” I’m a huge fan of VMware products. VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. The free version of ESXi is a power product alone.

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Executive Breakfast Panel: Accelerate Effective Decision-making.

CTOvision

'thetus. With this post I would like to tell you about an event I am participating in with the CEO of Thetus Danielle Forsyth.

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Three IT Mentalities Enlarging Digital Gaps

Future of CIO

Business Fails IT, just like IT Fails Business. Generally speaking, the job of a CIO has three parts: The first part is IT leadership. The task is to identify and recommend the latest technology trends that provide strategic value for businesses. This is probably the most forward-looking part to improve IT maturity. The second part is their representation on the executive staff, the job is to respond to requests from other executives for solutions to business problems and provide input into stra

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Mick's IT Blogs: MDT 2012 Update 1: Skip Roles and Features

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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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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VG Tech Talks Episode #1

Virtualized Greek

'The first Virtualizeed Geek Tech Talk. We talk about the difference between OpenStack and VMware. You can provide feedback in the comments section.

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Data Mining Taken to a New Level., Budget Cuts, and ICS getting a.

CTOvision

'Data Mining Taken to a New Level., Budget Cuts, and ICS getting a make over.

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The CIO’s Tough Choice II: Being a strategic leader or a Hands-on Manager?

Future of CIO

The tough choice facing CIOs is not about only picking one identity as either being strategic or tactical, but about WHEN- should act as a strategic leader, when should play as a tactical manager. Compared to other traditional executive positions, the CIO is a considerably new role with more than two decades of history; due to technology's change nature, IT and CIOs seem always to be in the hot seat, need to continue to be refreshed and adaptable; due to misunderstanding of IT, many organization

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Mick's IT Blogs: iPad 1 Slowness after 5.1.1 Update

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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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. By Werner Vogels on 18 February 2013 11:30 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks , a flexible application management solution with automation tools that enable you to model and control your applications and their supporting infrastructure.

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Federally Focused Technology Event Calendar: A reference for.

CTOvision

'Events calendar. There are dozens of technology related events every single week. Even with recent decisions aimed at cutting back on the number of events that the government is involved with, industry, academia and even.

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BPM’s Best Way: Top-Down or Bottom-Up

Future of CIO

An organization that has the ability to learn and adapt at several levels will move the whole BPM transformation forward. There’s about 70% of BPM projects fail statistically, and there are varies of causes to make such project “out of control”, so what is the best way to manage BPM? Top-down, Bottom-Up, Middle-Out, System-wide Inside-out or Outside-In?

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Mick's IT Blogs: MDT: Cleaning up old task sequences

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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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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Thinking about the future: Why predictions usually (but not always) have negative value

Trends in the Living Networks

A few days ago I spoke at the opening dinner of a strategy offsite for a professional firm, on the topic of ‘ Thinking About The Future ‘ It is a very common style of engagement for me, being briefed to set the broadest possible mental frame for executives before their in-depth discussions on directions for the business. The session went extremely well in provoking some very interesting conversations during the evening, and I gather driving new thinking through the rest of the offsit

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Mick's IT Blogs: MDT: Removing duplicate and old drivers

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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Is Dashboard Out of Date

Future of CIO

“Can the same image prompt different stories and memories in different people? That’s a good test for a “super-graphic.” -- Edward Tufte Dashboards can be extremely useful in a lot of areas, whether it’s a decision-making tool for executive, sharing information to an employee or supplier, or analyzing costs per sector. It’s a higher graphical representation which many people feel comfortable using.

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Mick's IT Blogs: MDT: Defining and Implementing Make and Model.

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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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Mick's IT Blogs: SMS 2003: Deploying apps from a network share

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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CIO in Board Room: Are you at the Table, or Are you on the Menu

Future of CIO

IT has to become a key ingredient of business growth, and the CIO also has to become a key contributor to the corporate board. A good CIO naturally sees the organization as one integrated system and is positioned to identify organizational inefficiencies, threats, and opportunities. It would be a mistake not to include his/her input in strategic discussions and planning.