CTOvision
AUGUST 14, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Editor’s note: The use case articulated here is important on its own, but is also one that can be repeatable across multiple other medical research activities and diseases. Thanks Intel and Cloudera for the technology and thanks to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) for what you are doing here.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 11, 2014
'Provider has deployed dozens of modular data centers in its massive facility overlooking the New Jersey Turnpike in Edison, establishing itself as a major player in the highly competitive New Jersey market. Read More.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 15, 2014
'It turns out that CIOs can transform the IT department into a revenue generator Image Credit: Joe+Jeanette Archie. One of the biggest challenges that the person with the CIO job has is that the department that they are responsible for is more often than not viewed as being a cost center. What this means is that the IT department spends and spends and spends and never seems to actually bring in any money.
Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 14, 2014
'I help companies use big data to work better. I love what I do and I love seeing companies and people succeed with big data. That said, I’ve seen my fair share of companies (and people) lose with big data too. Most of these ‘losses’ aren’t due to bad data or poor usage of analytical tools. Most of these losses can be traced to a few simple decisions that were made when a big data initiative was being planned.
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
AUGUST 11, 2014
'By Shannon Perry. The American media has never paid more attention to data breaches and cybersecurity than it does today. Major breaches in the last year at large companies like Target and eBay have made information security discussions more worrying and more widespread, albeit still not universally understood. On August 5 th , Nicole Perlroth and David Gelles with The New York Times published an article titled Russian Hackers Amass Over a Billion Internet Passwords. According to
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 15, 2014
'Data center supporting the HPC system in the nation’s newest technology and science school features liquid cooling and unusual electrical design. Read More.
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Cloud Musings
AUGUST 13, 2014
'A recent article Inc.com article claimed that the percentage of U.S. small businesses using cloud computing is expected to more than double during the next six years, from 37 percent to nearly 80 percent ( [link] ). This forecast was gleaned from a just released Emergent Research and Intuit study. This statement is also very scary in that it also highlights the growing importance of the cybersecurity threat to the nations economic livelihood.
CTOvision
AUGUST 15, 2014
'By William McElmurry. For healthcare professionals participating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services electronic health record (EHR) incentive program, you’ll soon need to demonstrate compliance with the Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirements in order to continue receiving incentive payments. Stage 2 requires expanded use of patient portals, as well as implementation of secure messaging, allowing patients to exchange information with physicians regarding their health care.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 14, 2014
'IT solutions provider ASG remains a tenant and Vocus becomes preferred solutions provider. Vocus continues to expand its data center footprint in Australia and nearby New Zealand. Read More.
Mick's IT Blog
AUGUST 13, 2014
'Automating the removal of Outlook data files is a tedious process that is difficult to automate. The registry key is a data hash that is unique on each system. Here is a script I wrote that will do just that. This script will remove the data file from Outlook when run under the end-user''s credentials. The script parses through the HKU and removes the registry entry for that key.
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A Screw's Loose
AUGUST 15, 2014
'I spend a lot of time talking about devices and apps. Not necessarily because I want to be talking about them, but that’s what people think mobility is about. They want to get into conversations about Android or iOS (they both have their strengths), why they think Windows Phone OS will succeed or fail, or [.].
CTOvision
AUGUST 14, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. We have previously written about the Security Innovation Network ( SINET ) and the yearly SINET Showcase. This is a group every technology firm should have some familiarity with now. Startups should track SINET as a way to learn and perhaps expose your technology to the community. Established security firms should track SINET to learn of emerging capabilities to partner with.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 12, 2014
'First SoftLayer data center in Canada, the facility to improve service for the company''s Canadian customers as well as customers outside of the country serving the Toronto market. Read More.
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 15, 2014
'Sorry no Mrs. in this video. In preparation for a deep dive on micro-segmentation, I give a high level over of Micro-Segmentation as I understand it currently. High level mirco-segmentation is a attribute of the Goldilocks zone VMware believes.
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Scott Lowe
AUGUST 15, 2014
'I mentioned this on Twitter a few days ago, but wanted to go ahead and formalize some of the details. A blog reader/Twitter follower contacted me with the idea of getting together briefly at VMworld 2014 for some prayer time. I thought it was a great idea (thanks David!), so here are the details. What: A brief time of prayer. Where: Yerba Buena Gardens, behind Moscone North.
CTOvision
AUGUST 11, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Tapping Global Threat Intelligence To Secure Enterprise Networks. Cyber Security Symposium. August 27, 2014 | 11 AM -1:30 PM EST. Ruths Chris Steakhouse, Arlington, VA. For more and to register see: [link]. On July 9, 2014, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) passed the Senate Intelligence Committee in a 12-3 vote.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 13, 2014
'Many service providers experience outages, causing downtime for hosting firms and customer websites. Read More.
Future of CIO
AUGUST 10, 2014
It takes strategic and systematic thinking and a holistic IT governance approach in running an Agile IT. Digital IT is permeating into the very fabric or core processes in modern organizations, thus, IT governance is crucial to steering business in the right direction and make effective business decisions. However, what is the best approach to begin implementing formal IT Governance specifically aimed at improving the quality of demand?
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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.
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 11, 2014
'In this post, I’ll show you how I got Arista’s vEOS software running under KVM to create a virtualized Arista switch. There are a number of other articles that help provide instructions on how to do this, but none of those that I found included the use of libvirt and/or Open vSwitch (OVS). In order to run vEOS, you must first obtain a copy of vEOS.
CTOvision
AUGUST 12, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. The video at this link and embedded below shows Kirk Borne at TEDx GeorgeMason. From the YouTube description: Dr. Kirk Borne is a Multidisciplinary Data Scientist and an Astrophysicist. He is Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science in the George Mason University School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences (SPACS).
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 14, 2014
'Cloud services have taken the business world by storm, and all the data handled by the cloud must be secured, writes Richard Moulds of Thales e-Security. Encryption plays an important role in creating trust in the cloud. Read More.
Future of CIO
AUGUST 13, 2014
It is not that businesses need to reinforce IT ASAP, but they need reinforce accountability. There are stresses in many professions and people must respond accordingly. Technology is becoming more critical than ever before and organizations will need to ensure that IT professionals are challenged, but not overwhelmed if they expect to retain them. So why haven't more technology professionals and business leaders leveraged managed services to reduce the burden affordably , and how to reinforce IT
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Scott Lowe
AUGUST 12, 2014
'A new startup emerged from stealth today, a company called Platform9. Platform9 was launched by former VMware veterans with the goal of making it easy for companies to consume their existing infrastructure in an agile, cloud-like fashion. Platform9 seeks to accomplish this by offering a cloud management platform that is itself provided as a cloud-based service—hence the name of this post, “cloud-hosted cloud management.” It’s an interesting approach, and it certainly hel
CTOvision
AUGUST 11, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute is a national treasure. One of the great bastions of the discipline of enterprise grade software engineering.This is the home to the first computer emergency response team (CERT), a group formed with DoD funding to enhance the coordination of computer emergency response teams in the wake of the famous morris worm.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 15, 2014
'Data center provider Latisys lands a colocation deal with mining services company Rocky Mountain Miners. Read More.
Future of CIO
AUGUST 15, 2014
H ighly effective leaders get respect, not because of their titles, but because of their vision and influence; insight and wisdom; ability and humilit y. Leaders and managers are different roles. A leader has a vision and personal influence to convince others to achieve that vision. A manager controls the day-to-day activities and resource utilization of the company.
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Scott Lowe
AUGUST 13, 2014
'In this post, I’m going to illustrate one way to deploy CoreOS on OpenStack using Heat. By no means is this intended to be seen as the only way to use Heat to deploy CoreOS, but rather as one way of using Heat to deploy CoreOS. I’m publishing this in the hopes that others will be able to use this as a building block for their own deployments.
CTOvision
AUGUST 12, 2014
'By Shannon Perry. Scientists, programmers, and engineers work ceaselessly to develop improvements in robotics and artificial intelligence, which constitute some of the most impressive technological feats ever accomplished. Impressive personal assistants like Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana can interpret voice commands, provide useful information, and even tell jokes, while incredible supercomputers like IBM’s Watson can make hypotheses and literally learn.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 12, 2014
'To meet the new demands of business, IT can no longer count on the tried and true, writes Momchil Michailov of Sanbolic. What todays IT teams need is a modern system architecture that has data at its core. Read More.
Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 15, 2014
'Captured this Cardinal from our backporch last week. Taken with Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L handheld. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my Zenfolio portfolio (where you can buy images). If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by visiting Adorama (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.
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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