CTOvision
MARCH 27, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. A reader just brought a job description to my attention and I wanted to share it with you in the hopes that you will pass it along till the right person is found for this very important position. From: [link]. Chief Cyberinfrastructure Security Officer. Internet2® is a member-owned, advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996.
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 27, 2014
'To realize its cloud ambitions, IBM must find a way to connect its existing base of enterprise customers to the SoftLayer platform. A key ingredient in IBM''s effort is Blue Mix, a Platform as a Service offering that Big Blue introduced last month. Here''s a closer look at Blue Mix.
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CIO Musings
MARCH 24, 2014
'We are hiring a ton of positions over the next few months. The jobs are posted on [link]. More information can be found there and you can apply on line. Why is Chesterfield VA a great place to work? Lots of reasons. Excellence - We have been the #1 digital county in the USA twice in the last 4 years. In 2010 we were voted as having the best county website in the nation.
Social, Agile and Transformation
MARCH 26, 2014
'100 Most Social CIOs on Twitter @ValaAfshar on @HuffPostTech You blog? You post frequently on Twitter? You have the time? These are frequent questions I here from CIOs and other professionals. In addition to these questions, some voice security concerns or worry about how to interpret their corporate social media policies. When they think about participating - not just joining - a.
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.
CTOvision
MARCH 25, 2014
'By ShannonPerry. We have written here before about Cyber Security Wake-Up Calls. Now here is a huge wake up call for citizens in California. Brian Krebs , the investigative journalist famous for revealing the Target credit card breach late last year, has revealed another compromised credit card system at the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 26, 2014
'IBM has committed $1.2 billion towards cloud investment and data center expansion. The first of 15 data centers planned for 2014, in Hong Kong, will open this week for online orders.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
MARCH 26, 2014
'CIOs know that everyone likes a good contest Image Credit. Let’s face it: there are some problems that an IT department faces that despite the importance of information technology are just tough to solve. As the person in the CIO job you’ve got to find solutions to these types of problems , but you also have to manage the time and the cost that it’s going to take to find a solution.
CTOvision
MARCH 22, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. If you are an enterprise technologist from any sector I implore you, please learn from trusted sources what the situation at NSA is. It is especially important that technologists understand the facts since we are the ones who can help people understand the technologies involved. I have seen and heard first-hand how people can jump to the wrong conclusion because they were mis-informed or because they believed something from a headline or article designed to intentionally mis-lea
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 24, 2014
'Tech giant Cisco, predominantly known for networking equipment, will invest $1 billion to enter the cloud computing arena. Cisco is the latest in a long string of traditional tech companies needing to do something big to enter cloud computing.
Eric D. Brown
MARCH 25, 2014
'We’ve been living with the “ IT Transformation ” phrase for quite a while. I remember hearing and reading about how IT groups were ‘transforming’ themselves from what they used to be to what they needed to be in the future. The problem that I’ve found with transformation is that we’re usually too busy ‘transforming’ ourselves and teams rather than focused on the business issues of the day.
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Virtualized Greek
MARCH 26, 2014
'I’m headed to Tech Field Day’s Storage Field Day 5 (SFD) next month as a delegate. I know what you are thinking, hey Keith you aren’t a storage guy. No, I’m not a pure storage guy, but it speaks to the convergence of the infrastructure. I expect get of bunch of relevant information around the Virtual First Data Center (VFDC).
CTOvision
MARCH 22, 2014
'It’s always interesting to see how large, complex organizations have morphed over time to absorb the increasing importance of IT and Cyber. Industry, academia and government have approached this important task with varying solutions. It’s sometimes unbelievably frustrating to watch as years roll by and organizations come-and-go, at great expense of manpower, brainpower and hard physical assets.
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 24, 2014
'High-touch hybrid hosting provider Latisys is expanding its platform to the UK, as well as disclosing some financials for the first time. The company has hit an annual revenue run rate of $100 million.
Eric D. Brown
MARCH 23, 2014
'Midwest IT Survival » Evolution of Corporate IT and the Future Impact of Cloud. Quote : All in all, corporate IT is in constant evolution. The rate of evolution appears on all counts to be accelerating with no signs of any slowdown in the future. Anyone who isn’t prepared to have to constantly re-invent themselves should seriously consider a different career path than corporate IT.
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Virtualized Greek
MARCH 25, 2014
'Hyper-convergence has a side-effect on IT operations that needs to be considered before taking the hyper-converged plunge. The CPU, Storage and in some cases network are collapsing into tightly integrated platforms. Examples include Nutanix on the hardware side and VMware VSAN or EMC ScaleIO on the software side. These converged solutions allow for simplified infrastructures that scale by just adding additional blocks of integrated storage and compute.
CTOvision
MARCH 26, 2014
'By ShannonPerry. Tuesday, Facebook announced its plans to acquire Oculus VR for $2 billion. If you haven’t heard of it, Oculus VR is a virtual reality startup out of Irvine, CA. Its mission ? – to produce “immersive virtual reality technology that’s wearable and affordable.” Starting on Kickstarter in June 2012, Oculus quickly raised millions from backers and other tech companies.
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 25, 2014
'CenturyLink Technology Solutions is adding new capacity in eight markets, including three new data center sites. The new builds will add more than 20 megawatts of capacity and 180,000 square feet to the CenturyLink footprint.
Eric D. Brown
MARCH 26, 2014
'There’s been much discussion of the concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) over the last few years. While the topic has been written about by many bloggers and authors, there’s been very little discussion about BYOD in the small and midsize business space. Many large organizations have the ability to deploy large and complex systems to manage employee-owned devices.
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Storage IO Blog
MARCH 27, 2014
'Not only is this the first appearance by Matt on the StorageIO Podcasts, it is also his first time as a guest on any podcast so I’m honored to host his global debut podcast appearance here. We talk about the role of automation for performance and capacity optimization along with how VMware vCOPs plays an important role. The post Matt Vogt of Computex talks VMware vCOPs in his first ever podcast appeared first on StorageIOblog.
CTOvision
MARCH 27, 2014
'Two of my favorite technology companies, the great American firms Intel Corporation and Cloudera, are now working very strategically together in a way that will have a positive impact on the future of enterprise IT. For context, see the video at this link and embedded below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kamkE9prow In the video, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich talks about the equity investment and importance of the technology collaboration between Int.
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 25, 2014
'One potential solution for data center operational expenditure (OPEX) optimization lies in adopting the usage-based pricing model for resource consumption, writes Rajat Ghosh of Georgia Tech. This article proposes a metric, namely resource allocation index (RAI), to measure the matching between.
Virtualized Greek
MARCH 26, 2014
'I’m headed to Tech Field Day’s Storage Field Day 5 (SFD) next month as a delegate. I know what you are thinking, hey Keith you aren’t a storage guy. No, I’m not a pure storage guy, but it speaks to the convergence of the infrastructure. I expect get of bunch of relevant information around the Virtual First Data Center (VFDC).
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Storage IO Blog
MARCH 24, 2014
'Some of you might have heard of dark territories as a term used in days of old that refereed to parts of railroads or other transportation that were out of site with no command, control, monitoring or communications. Perhaps something that the tragedy of MH370 will remind us all is just how big this planet is, and not everything is connected or covered or monitored yet, or, at least that we know about or have access to.
CTOvision
MARCH 24, 2014
'For over two years we have tracked Actifio as a leading firm on our Disruptive IT list and have watched as they continually and consistently improve the ability of enterprises to manage their data. Today Actifio announced they have achieved an over 182% annual growth rate with customers in 31 countries. They now have over 1 Exabyte of data under management.
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 26, 2014
'AWS announced price cuts, It''s virtual desktop offering workspaces is now available to everyone, and gives real world examples across a large swatch of industries and sizes as to how people are using their cloud.
Virtualized Greek
MARCH 28, 2014
'A question I had struggled with – How do really smart people fail? I figured given enough intellectual prowess you should excel at anything. My rationale was really smart people are rarely if ever wrong and if really smart people are rarely wrong they should make great leaders, employees and innovators. I’m personally very analytical when it comes to problem solving.
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Storage IO Blog
MARCH 25, 2014
'Some recent industry activity has included Cisco announcing its Cloud intentions (e.g. more than simply selling servers and networking hardware). Another industry activity involving servers storage I/O networking hardware software and virtualization (aka software defined) was the general announcement (GA) by VMware of Virtual SAN (VSAN).
CTOvision
MARCH 27, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) is a virtuous firm I have personally volunteered with for almost a decade. I believe in the value they add to the discourse on matters of national security importance and also in cyber security issues. The cyber council of INSA is a group of volunteers who come together to work topics associated with cyber security.
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 25, 2014
'Cloud infrastructure has been well tested for enterprise workloads. But can it handle the demands of gamers, who are ultra-sensitive to network lag? Behold Titanfall, running on the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud.
A Screw's Loose
MARCH 25, 2014
'I don’t usually do deal analysis but when your twitter timeline fills up with the news of Facebook acquiring Oculus VR it becomes hard not to comment. Now to be fair, many of the jokes are hilarious (I especially like the Yahoo buying ViewMaster one) but at the same time a lot of people are [.].
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
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