CTOvision

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

'By Matt Southmayd. Cybersecurity is one of the most important issues facing organizations today. It is so important that President Obama addressed it 20 January during his State of the Union address. The President talked about the urgent need to ensure that "no foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks, steal our trade secrets, or invade the privacy of American families, especially our kids.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

'Disaster recovery is something that involves planning for the worst, and hoping for the best. As new technologies such as virtualization and cloud have matured, is it time to include cloud in your DR plans? See if your planning might benefit from the addition of cloud services at this session at.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

'Thanks to Ramon Monteiro @ivisualize for developing this cool visual depicting my last post on The Key to aligning Agile Dev and Stable Ops to a Successful DevOps Transformation. While agile development teams continue to iterate and improve applications for the Business, and Ops insures that systems are stable and reliable, the CIO leads the entire IT organization through a DevOps transformation.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'In what might be the best titled article I’ve read in a while, Vince Kellen writes about the dangers of confirmation bias (or ‘finding what we want to find’) when working with big data. The article, titled “ Big Data and the Mirror of Erised “, Kellen writes: Being human beings with a tendency to confirm what we so want to have happen or to relive what felt so good in the past, managers often drift into self-sealing and circular analysis that at first doesn’t seem

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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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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. The fine print offered by Samsung regarding their new Smart TV is something you need to dwell on. Not only does the TV recognize your voice, but it will record your conversations even when you do not know you are being listened to. Additionally, this information will be used by Samsung. And, according to their fine print, may also be used by third-parties they decide to work with.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

'To validate its new data center design, DuPont Fabros filled a data hall with 200 cabinets of different heights and form factors, and used load banks to simulate densities of 15 kW per rack Read More.

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Mick's IT Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

'This script will generate a clean list of Microsoft updates that were installed during a system build, making it drastically easier than having to parse through the log file. You open the powershell script up and update the $File variable to point to the location of the BDD.log file. You can download the script from here. cls $File = Get-Content -Path "C:UsersMickDesktopBDD.log" -Force Foreach ($Entry in $File) { If (($Entry -like ''*INSTALL - *'') -and ($Entry -like ''*ZTIWindowsUpdate*'')) {

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. Editor''s note: We have tracked Pentaho for years and have observed first hand the power of their open approaches to an end to end framework for helping organizations make the most of their data holdings. Congrats to the entire team at Pentaho for this, you created something of tremendous value to the community and see this as a big signal that you will continue to change the world in very positive ways.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

'Colocation offers organizations the ability to meet business demands at a lower cost, writes Rowland Kinch of Custodian Data Centres. Because of this, more and more companies are shifting their operations from in-house server rooms to colocation facilities. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

'Contrary to what your mother may have told you, going in circles is sometimes a good thing. When it comes to our economy, it is actually a great thing. Throughout history, society has built itself up by transforming raw materials into finished, usable products. This manufacturing process has always been linear in that: Materials (sand, iron, gold, etc.) are evaluated for purpose and taken from nature.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

'After a year of absence I am bringing back the Back to Basic Weekend Reading Series. We''ll continue to look at the fundamental works of Computer Science and Engineering, and other interesting technical works. We will start this year with a topic that spans many sciences: that of complex networks. It is relevant to everything from biology, life sciences, social sciences to computer engineering.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. Lets start with some good news: Sometimes problems can only be solved after there is widespread situational awareness, and now that cyber security and cyber threats are going mainstream, more and more people are being made aware of how serious this threat of stolen health care data is. A story ran on NPR''s Morning Edition today. This is absolutely great.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

'When businesses are on the fast track and experiencing growth, they often find themselves needing additional storage space for their data center, writes Ernest Sampera of vXchnge. When this happens, they must decide whether to lease data center space or build an in-house storage infrastructure.

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Mick's IT Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

'This PowerShell script will install WMF 4.0. It will return an error if the installation fails. You can download the script from here. #Declare Global Memory Set-Variable -Name Errors -Value $null -Scope Global -Force Set-Variable -Name RelativePath -Scope Global -Force Set-Variable -Name Title -Scope Global -Force Function ConsoleTitle ($Title){ $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $Title } Function DeclareGlobalVariables { $Global:Title = "Windows Management Framework 4.0" } Function GetRelativePath

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

'In this post, I’ll provide an example of using YAML to create a multi-container Docker environment in Vagrant. I made a brief mention of this technique in my earlier post talking about how to use Docker with Vagrant , but wanted to provide an example. For me, I know that examples are often quite helpful when I’m learning something new. Since one of my primary goals here is to help enable others to learn these technologies, I figured an example would be helpful.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. A man in Sweden has become the first person to be fitted with a mind-controlled prosthetic arm. The prosthetic arm was surgically implanted and attaches to his bone, muscle and nerves. The artificial arm is directly attached to the skeleton, thus providing mechanical stability. Then the human''s biological control system, that is nerves and muscles, is also interfaced to the machine''s control system via neuromuscular electrodes.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

'Both companies are considered top players in major European markets. Combined, they form the biggest European colocation provider with unified capital blazing the path forward. Read More.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Organizational talent management, performance management, knowledge management, and culture management need to be well integrated in order to well align organizational vision with staff engagement. As always, talent is the most significant asset in any organization today. However, many businesses still treat their people as cost or resource only, lack of integrative approach to manage performance & potential; knowledge & culture in a holistic way.

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Lundberg Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

One of the most interesting research projects I've worked on in the past year was an HBR Analytics Services study sponsored by Red Hat as part of their Enterprisers Project. In it, we divided the universe based on respondents' posture toward IT-driven business innovation — for simplicity's sake, let's call it digital innovation. There were three categories: Innovation Accelerators: These respondents said that digital innovation is a consciously pursued strategy throughout the organization — it's

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. Have you ever wanted a physical keyboard on your iPad? I know I have. Now there is one! Apple’s touch-based devices have changed the way we interact with computers entirely, but that hasn’t stopped users from occasionally thinking wistfully of the days when physical keyboards ruled the roost. Tactus has taken that desire to heart, and the startup’s first consumer product, the Phorm , is about to bring a tactile experience back to your iPad mini’s software keyboard.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'"Keeping Pace with an Accelerated Environment" is the theme of AFCOM''s Data Center World event, which convenes April 19-23 at The Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Read More.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Continuous improvement goes hand-in-hand with one of the digital principles, "to learn constantly so we continually improve." Digital means change, learning is the only way to adapt to changes. To become a "learning" organization and grow as a Digital Master , you must first have the right culture to encourage learning with growth mind, from the top down commitment to human capital investment, and ensure employees have the tools and resources that support it.

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Nutanix

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

It gives me immense pleasure to share with you some recent great news! For the second year in a row, Nutanix has won the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award from The Omega Management Group.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

'By May Gourley. First announced at both Revolution Analytics'' and Microsoft''s blogs, on 23 Jan 2015, the purchase of Revolution Analytics by Microsoft was done in order to help customers "find big data value with advanced statistical analysis.". Revolution Analytics has been offering support and services for R since 2007, when it first started as Revolution Computing.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

'With cloud, data center, and service providers looking to deliver better performance and options, here''s how new commodity systems are making an impact Read More.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

The challenge for change leaders is to ensure any change is presented in a way that the end users understand it in terms of "what's in it for me." People love to change if they are involved and/or take the initiative, but they hate being changed by someone else without having an effect on the situation. But Change is the only constant, and the speed of change is accelerating, how to adapt to change is the very quality to grow as a Digital Master.

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Nutanix

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

NEXT 2015 (#NEXTConf) promises an unrivaled conference experience for the web-scale and hyperconverged datacenter infrastructure industry, by offering four engaging breakout tracks full of educational sessions.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. At this link you can save 20% off registration for Strata + Hadoop World London 2015. Immerse yourself in the world of big data at Strata + Hadoop World. Explore solutions to your most challenging problems, connect with the brightest minds in data, find out what’s new in emerging technologies and Apache Hadoop—and see for yourself what data can do.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

'Interxion and TelecityGroup merger would leapfrog Equinix as the top player in Europe and better position them for global expansion. Read More.

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Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The C&C Style Might Scare the Sheep, but can't Tame the Tiger. We are in the age of abundance of knowledge. Knowledge-work is more purpose-driven and self-management, therefore collaboration, openness, sharing, and integrity are fundamental for a joyful and productive teamwork. This is radically different from command-and-control (C&C) style of management.

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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.