CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”. ? Margaret Mead. Editor''s note: I''ve been in the position to observe both NGA and DigitalGlobe as organizations and have also been honored to meet both the two leaders referenced in this release, and I consider their work to be proof yet again that small teams of committed people can work wonders in the world.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 15, 2015

'Colocation provider Switch has unveiled plans for its largest SUPERNAP project yet, a $1 billion, 3 million square foot data center campus on 1,000 acres of land near Reno, Nevada. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 12, 2015

'I''ve seen many organizations run into difficulty defining governance and best practices managing the lifecycle of BI dashboards. Perhaps you have deployed a self service BI program - data scientists have access to tools, IT has deployed severs to publish completed dashboards, and employees are anxious to leverage visualizations and become more data driven.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 14, 2015

'Even the best laid plans can run into a stall if you don’t plan correctly Image Credit: roger g1. Every CIO has heard about the Cloud by now – computing services provided by a vendor that your company can lease and access via the Internet. All of the articles sure seem to indicate that moving enterprise applications into the cloud makes good economic sense and can enhance the importance of information technology to the company.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. We have previously reported on the great, community coordinated and extensively vetted work on cyber risks and governance by organizations like The Institute of Internal Auditors ( IIA ), The Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA ),The Internet Security Alliance ( ISA ), and The National Association of Corporate Directors ( NACD ).

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 15, 2015

'Over time, and for various reasons, the need will arise to migrate your data center equipment to a new facility, writes Art Salazar of Green House Data. Whether you colocate or operate a company-owned data center, keep these best practices in mind when planning your migration. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 10, 2015

'In the last two years, IT security breaches have hit the White House, the State Department, the top federal intelligence agency, the largest American bank, the top hospital operator, energy companies, retailers and even the Postal Service. Melvin Greer, Senior Fellow and Chief Strategist Lockheed Martin , and author of numerous publications will detail the new cloud computing threat landscape.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. Eddie Garcia is regarded as one of the nation''s greatest Big Data security architects. At Gazzang he led engineering teams through successful fielding of secure hadoop deployments where security was provided without sacrificing performance. Now a security engineer with Cloudera, Eddie continues to work directly with clients from enterprises across multiple sectors of the economy.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 13, 2015

'There are ways to future-proof the data center without having to make costly investments, while still ensuring that IT infrastructure can adapt and change over time to meet evolving business needs – even in a rapidly changing, unpredictable landscape. Read more from Steve Carlini and Soeren Jensen.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 13, 2015

'One of my observations during my job search is that IT vendors are trying to move up the consulting stack. They want enterprise customers to know that they have both the technical chops and business acumen to solve customer problems.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

'by Kevin L.Jackson With all the news these days about cyberterrorism and hacking the cloud may seem like the last place you would want to put your precious information. Pew Research has even suggested that cyber-attacks are likely to increase. Some 61% of over 1600 security expert respondents to a recent survey said “yes” that a major attack causing widespread harm would occur by 2025 , according to the Pew Research study.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. One of our CTOvision Pro subscribers requested we provide more context on web based and mobile application security and referenced the good work underway by OWASP. Over the next few weeks we will be publishing more on this topic, but wanted to start with an introduction to OWASP itself. It is an open community we hold in the highest regard and you may want to consider contributing to their efforts yourself (or perhaps ensuring the right people in your enterprise are engaged with

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 14, 2015

'Some bitcoin mining firms are shutting down or halting payouts to customers, while others are shifting their business models. The fallout is being felt by data center operators who leased space to large mining operations. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 16, 2015

'A recent post by Joe Onisick highlighted VMware NSX’s inability to control physical bits. As a result, he positioned NSX as a Network Function Virtualization solution vs. a full SDN product. VMware may remind you that through VTEP and partnerships with their.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 12, 2015

'by Jodi Kohut ITIL (formerlyknown as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library) has been the best management practices framework of choice for world class IT Operations organizations. The 5 stage framework: Service Strategy, Design, Transition, Operation, and Continual Service improvement allows for structured processes that support Enterprise Architecture, Service Delivery, and Security initiatives.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 14, 2015

'By Kord Davis. MIT Technology Review recently published a paper on an emerging discipline called "Human-Data Interaction (HDI). A nascent field of study, this paper can provide individuals and organizations a solid introductory framework to motivate discussion and action around the relationship between people and data. Summarizing the full paper, MIT comments: " The rapidly evolving ecosystems associated with personal data is creating an entirely new field of scientific study, say computer scie

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 12, 2015

'In the last few years, the value of predictive analytics has become clear, and businesses are clamoring for rapid adoption and deployment, writes Bill Jacobs of Revolution Analytics. Read More.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 16, 2015

'In this post, I’m going to discuss some projects that I’ve set out for myself in the upcoming year. I’ve done this in years past, and the feedback that I’ve gotten from readers is that they found these posts to be quite helpful. I first started posting annual project lists in January 2012, when I posted a list of some projects for 2012. In January 2013, I graded myself on my progress (spoiler alert: I didn’t do very well), followed by a new 2013 project list in early February.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 12, 2015

'Did you know that. Goldman Sachs recognized Bangladesh as one of the Next Eleven (N-11) - a list of eleven countries having strong potential for becoming the world''s largest economies along with BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China)? JP Morgan named Bangladesh as one of the `Frontier Five’ (along with Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kenya and Nigeria), a group of selected emerging countries having promising macroeconomic performance and demographic trends?

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2015

'By Randy Siegel. On January 14 th , Reuters broke an exclusive story purporting to have information that Samsung Electronics was in advanced talks to purchase Blackberry for ~$.75B. If true, such a deal would surely represent a game-changer for mobile security conscious government and private sector enterprises. Samsung has a strong impetus for purchasing Blackberry.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 15, 2015

'The company''s goal to back up anything and everything for anybody creates some specific data center considerations Read More.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2015

'Git is a distributed version control system that is widely used by a number of open source projects. In this post, I’m going to provide a quick non-programmer’s introduction to Git, and encourage readers to spend some time getting familiar with Git. I think it is a time investment that will pay off down the road. First, I’m going to provide some definitions/brief explanations in order to establish a foundation upon which you can build your Git knowledge.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 13, 2015

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CTOvision

JANUARY 14, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. The video below and at this link was produced by The Verge to highlight one of the most interesting gadgets presented at the Consumer Electronics Show. It is a proof of concept not available for sale yet, but a developer kit has been built and will be released in March. Related articles. Sony''s $1,100 Walkman, Smart Homes, Highlight Consumer Electronics Show (mega949.com).

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 13, 2015

'Several new providers have emerged over the past few years to tackle what they say is pent-up demand in non-core markets Read More.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 12, 2015

'I just saw the news that Citrix has acquired Sanbolic , a storage virtualization company that I’ve written about before. (TechCrunch also has a quick write-up as well.) Early this year, Sanbolic announced their storage virtualization product, completing a pivot from offering a Windows-only solution (file system and volume manager) to a multi-platform solution that encompasses multiple storage tiers, multiple operating systems, and multiple hypervisors.

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Lundberg Media

JANUARY 13, 2015

'Business leaders anticipate dramatic change in all aspects of their operations over the next three years, according to recent research from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services (you can download a copy of the report I authored, Business Transformation and the CIO Role, at the HBR website). Some companies are accelerating this change by committing to […].

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CTOvision

JANUARY 10, 2015

'By Bob Flores. We have just released another CTOvision Pro piece, this one titled: One Thing All Successful Enterprise CTOs Have In Common. I wanted to write this for a couple key reasons: 1) Technologists at mid-grade levels who are thinking through the pros and cons of a CTO career path can benefit from these observations, and 2) CTOvision Pro readers of all experience levels may find this thought provoking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 13, 2015

'Clouds often have an advantage over competitors with specific use cases. Cloud Spectator attempts a cost comparison keeping the use case in mind Read More.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 16, 2015

The future belongs to those fast learners who can test and run, walk the talk, and ultimately become a digital master. Organizations large or small are on the journey to digital transformation, and there are different theories of organizational structure evolution and continuous brainstorming about the concept of self-management, the format of future of the organization etc.

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