CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. On 11 Dec 2014 we will be providing a briefing on lessons extracted from our research into the new Cloudera and Intel partnership. This presentation is designed to arm architects with the information they need to efficiently modernize and deliver cost-saving, mission-supporting capabilities to their enterprise. This webinar format will enable us to dynamically present and then interact with the architects, program managers and technology executives attending.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'Major data breaches make it clear that data security is a serious problem, writes Patrick Quirk of Emerson Network Power. But despite the rash of breaches, there remains an industry-wide naïveté when it comes to these types of security concerns. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'It’s been a bit quiet around here the past week. I’ve been doing some traveling over the holidays and enjoying some time with my wife and our cameras. This morning, we went out to one of the best locations in the area for bird watching and photography. We were pretty sure we wouldn’t see much nor get any good photographs due to the very thick fog that had rolled in overnight.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'2015 PREDICTION TIME!! The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Their individual effect on society and commerce will become moot as these technological capabilities merge to deliver products and services straight out of Star Trek! Rise of the "Cloud System Integrator" (a.k.a. Cloud Service Broker ) - Traditional system integrators will finally realize that their current product and labor based business model is about to go the way of the

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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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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'By SeanLawson. On October 27, 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a new Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that bans the use of “unmanned aircraft and remote controlled aircraft” near stadiums. The move comes in the wake of a number of reports worldwide , including within the United States , of “drone” use at sporting events. Though these incidents certainly raise legitimate safety concerns, the FAA’s response is problematic for a number of reasons.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'In building out a global federation of small cloud providers, OnApp is in the position to challenge the likes of AWS. That''s if it gets the technology right. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2014

'Cloud Computing is revolutionizing today''s business marketplace. While "learning the art of the possible", corporate executives today are struggling with the business and security challenges associate with this important transition. Just last month, Dell released its first Global Technology Adoption Index (GTAI) which indicated that 97% of organizations surveyed use or plan to use cloud.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Here is the latest technology news from across the tech community: What’s the right relationship between technology companies and journalism? Last week technology news site Re:Code announced that it would stop hosting comments on its own sites as the conversation around stories was already happening on social media. We like to self-flagellate in journalism, and here is another birch twig to … Read more on The Guardian (blog).

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'By making the right hosting architecture choices up front, companies can ensure that their site will always be available with no interruptions to the end user experience, writes Jeffrey Papen of Peak Hosting. To eliminate downtime, here are six architecture choices that should be considered. Read.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

'AWS made several announcements at re:invent including many around development tools, compute and data storage services. One of those to keep an eye on is cloud based Aurora relational database service that complement existing RDS tools. Aurora is positioned as an alternative to traditional SQL based transactional databases commonly found in enterprise environments (e.g.

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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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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

A self-awareness mind continues to practice reflective thinking. We are all on the journey to self-awareness; some simply have a greater recognition of being on that road. There are different kinds of leaders and thus different forms of leadership. The one constant is the need to begin by leading oneself. A self-awareness mind continues to practice reflective thinking : B etter understand yourselves and how knowing who you are and your own style of influence affect how you respond and interact w

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'The annual C5ISR Summit in Charleston, SC turned out a record number of attendees (over 1200) this year. While many Defense Contractors are finding it hard to make money from this market, in part due to the reducing DoD Budget, SPAWAR System Center Atlantic’s scale-back of Non-Navy Work, and a locked-in, post-pillar (multi-year multiple award contract vehicles) environment, there were many new faces at the event, indicating hopes for a brighter future.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'CIOs across the board are feeling pressure to implement the latest cloud-based IT technology while taking advantage of their existing IT infrastructure, writes Moe Abdula of IBM. The creation of a hybrid cloud environment can give these execs the best of both worlds. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

'In addition to announcing new higher performance Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) compute instances along with container service, another new service is AWS Lambda. Lambda is a service that automatically and quickly runs your applications code in response to events, activities, or other triggers. In addition to running your code, Lambda service is billed in 100 millisecond increments along with corresponding memory use vs. standard EC2 per hour billing.

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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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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

The essence of who we are lies in those brain pattern- how & what we think. The human brain is perhaps one of the most mysterious things in the world. The concept of brain emulation has a colorful history, roughly 85 billion individual neurons make up the human brain, each one connected to as many as 10, 000 others via axons and dendrites. It’s the sum of those brain signals that encode information and enable the brain to process, associate and execute commands.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. If you are an enterprise technologist you are bombarded with requests to participate in technology events. Some of these events are great! They can be fantastic ways to learn from peers, to give back to the community and share lessons learned. Others are unfocused, sub-optimized and a waste of time. How do you tell the good ones from the time-wasters?

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 2, 2014

'Private and public clouds are driving up data center agility, making it possible to more cost-effectively shift workloads to utilize lower energy rates, writes Jeff Klaus of Intel Corporation. Read More.

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 2, 2014

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the weekly NEXT Community Podcast! This 30-min informal and unscripted discussion about web-scale IT covers news, current events, and the industry updates that YOU need to know about.

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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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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Digital is the age of customer empathy. For most of the organizations, innovation is still the serendipity, but being customer-centric is the ultimate goals of those organizations, so how shall you base your new product innovation on known customer needs? Focusing on customer needs should be an easier path to grow the innovation fruit: S haping "customer desire" is a different task from shaping or understanding "need"; and making consumers believe their "want" is a "need" is a recipe for success

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'16-21 Nov 2014 the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14) was hosted in New Orleans and once again it did not disappoint! Each year SC14 brings together a large number of folks from the High Performance Computing (HPC) community, basically thousands of scientists and engineers that are doing really awesome things in the HPC and computational analytics space.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'Contrary to popular belief, cloud is not killing the colocation market; in fact, it''s doing the opposite Read More.

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 2, 2014

You are most likely aware that, as of July 14, 2015, Microsoft will no longer support Windows Server 2003. If you have one of the estimated 24 million servers running Windows Server 2003, you should be concerned.

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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

Future of CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Humans are the complex asset, you need to understand them as a WHOLE person, not just the pieces of data. Every organization spends a lot of effort explaining that people are their most important asset, but they have great difficulty in proving it. Links between people, culture, leadership, engagement, revenue, and profit are rarely able to be measured in-house and regularly enough to make a difference.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. CTOvision Pro provides business and technology leaders with access to extended, actionable research and analysis. Subscribers receive: An additional newsletter with up-to-date context and analysis enabling the better application of emerging technologies to mission needs. Logins to our market research, technology assessments and special reports.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'IT networks expected to go from having excess capacity to being overloaded by the stress of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices. Read More.

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 5, 2014

As you know, the goal of the Web-Scale Wish Datacenter Makeover Project is to gift more than $500,000 in web-scale technology to deserving non-profit organizations.

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“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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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2014

CIOs need to be an interpreter to mind the gap between IT and business; between silo functions and business oversight; and between industrial age & digital era. Ever since the "early days" (the 1980s), IT has frequently reported through the business/CFO channel. This is the true state of CIOs today. However, IT is transforming from a cost center to value creator, from IT-business alignment to IT-business engagement; from IT as a back-office support function to front office innovation engine,

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'By Katie Kennedy. An introduction to Napatech: Imagine you find an open window into your company’s system. You quickly realize that nefarious individuals are attempting to break into your system and steal sensitive information. What if you could prevent a break in before the thought even came about. Napatech is committed to stopping criminals before they get into your systems.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'Previews private enterprise container registry, rolls out Docker-native clustering and container orchestration capabilities Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'You can never be too cautious when it comes to social networking Image Credit. Congratulations CIO: the world that you are operating in has become a lot more complex lately. What this means for you is that you’re going to have to determine what the new rules are for being successful in this world are and how to maximize the importance of information technology for your company.

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