CTOvision

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The FBI just posted the first official written articulation of why they believe North Korea is linked to the ongoing Sony Hack. As someone who has worked with FBI investigators in the past I have to tell you they do not go public like this unless they have evidence. It is true they have been wrong before, and it is a very American trait to be skeptical of government assessments.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'I’m sure there are many definitions of a CEO out there. Plenty of people will say the CEO should be a leader, manager, communicator and facilitator. Other’s might say that the CEO is the person most focused on strategy and the ‘future’ of the business. Investopedia defines the CEO as: The highest ranking executive in a company whose main responsibilities include developing and implementing high-level strategies, making major corporate decisions, managing the overall ope

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'Data centers have come under intense scrutiny from environmental groups because of their significant contribution to carbon emissions, writes Brian Lavallée of Ciena. However, there are multiple strategies and tactics that organizations can adopt in order to reduce their energy consumption. Read.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'In 2014, many of my posts on BigData were actually about "small" data management practices. Specifically, I hope these posts educated readers that tools of "Data Science 1.0" such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and especially Access can disrupt - even kill - efforts to make organizations become more data driven. In addition to calling out this problem which is something I have been doing for a.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The video at this link and embedded below captures the content and dialog of a webinar which examined new capabilities of Cloudera and Intel , with a focus on capabilities that provide a full stack solution to many key enterprise mission needs. The webinar included insights by Cloudera’s Senior Director of Technology Webster Mudge and Intel’s Enterprise Technology Specialist Ed Herold, plus questions from an informed audience.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'In a recent “Movers and Shakers” article by Martha Heller titled “ The Power of Metaphor “, Malini Balakrishnan, CIO of Building Materials Holdings Corporation (BMC) claimed that one of the most important roles that a CIO has today is helping the organization uunderstandwhat role the IT group plays. Balakrishnan is quoted as saying: “As CIOs, we need to demystify IT.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'I started 2014 with several posts on the CIO / CMO relationship and where IT departments can help with digital marketing initiatives. The main touch point is around data and the technologies that enable CMOs to be more data driven. With so many technology vendors trying to tap into marketing budgets and when most of the key marketing data is is enterprise systems, SaaS products, and other data.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'By Anup Ghosh. Editor’s note: As an advisor to Invincea I closely track not only their capabilities but the context they provide the community. Anup Ghosh, CEO of Invincea published well reasoned context on the Sony Hack at the Invincea blog, it is reposted below for your consideration. – bg. Let’s be honest. As wild as this year has been in InfoSec, none of us, and I mean nobody, anticipated the events that unfolded this week with the Sony hack: A major studio cancels a theatrical

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'by Melvin Greer Managing Director Greer Institute for Leadership and Innovation According to a Greer Institute Workforce and Talent study, the 2020 workforce is both “the most educated and culturally diverse of any generation” and “notorious job-hoppers who dislike bureaucracy and distrust traditional hierarchies.” Given this, it is crucial for leaders to understand how best to motivate and engage this 2020 workforce and win the war for top talent.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'There is an ongoing challenge in the data center to balance the strength of good encryption with the competing interests of budget and usability. Joe Sturonas of PKWARE discusses five data center protection questions to help keep data safe. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'Bad things have been happening at the Singapore Stock Exchange Image Credit: Reuters. Stock exchanges are challenging businesses to run. The people who use stock exchanges, stock traders, banks, brokers, etc. move very fast. The phrase “time is money” was invented to describe these people. They have a desperate need to be able to communicate with other people in a very rapid and very reliable way.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Recorded Future has launched a new free service for cyber defenders which I am finding valuable for situational awareness. This new cyber daily provides technical indicators and context around vulnerabilities making them more understandable and helping put them in context. My view is their report can be helpful to both security executives and more operational and tactical defenders since it can help both prioritize actions and discuss the need to mitigate specific concerns.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'by Sandra K. Johnson Cyber security is rapidly becoming a significant issue in the C-suite as well as the population at large. The results of Dell’s Global Technology Adoption Index(GTAI) [1] show that security is a top concern for most of the 2000 global small and medium businesses surveyed. The outcomes further noted that such concerns create barriers to the adoption of critical technologies that drive value and growth: mobility, cloud and big data.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'DDoS is becoming the preferred method of attack for hackers, hacktivists and rogue governments due to its simplicity, ease of distribution and potential for major disruption. Bill Barry of Nexusguard discusses four steps that can help your company recover in the event of an attack. Read More.

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The Investing Edge

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'I’m a graduate of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell and sit on the board of Change is Simple , a non-profit devoted to educating the next generation to become thoughtful and aware of environmental issues and social responsibility. I also surf as frequently as possible, when I can find free time, literally immersing myself as often as I can in the power of nature.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The book The Cyber Threat was written to provide business and government executives insight into the nature of the dynamic adversaries attacking our networks. Understanding the Cyber Threat is critical to preparing your defenses prior to attack and also instrumental in mounting a defense during attack. Reading this book will teach you things your adversaries wish you did not know and in doing so will enhance your ability to defend against cyber attack.

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A CIO's Voice

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'2014 has been a great year. Things are looking better. Hopefully the momentum will carry into 2015. I have tried to be really good by being the best CIO I can. So Santa, this year, I would like the following: Apple iPhone 6 plus. I have decided bigger is better but I haven’t figured out how to carry it. A development team that can hit the ground running and fix code quickly.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'Metadata, which in the past was limited to names and labels, today encompasses information about the relationships between data, reports, and processes, writes Glenn Johnson of Magic Software Enterprises Americas. And as the amount of metadata continues to grow, it requires its own strategy for.

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The Investing Edge

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'In our last blog post , we referenced an IDG study suggesting that in the past two years, the percentage of enterprises with either applications or infrastructure running in the cloud has gone from just 12 percent to an enormous 69 percent. This post will discuss why. Business Insider recently reported that a gigabyte’s worth of storage on a hard drive cost more than $9,000 in 1993, but a mere 4 cents in 2013.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'By John Scott. Cyber has been called the ultimate team sport: CIOs, CTOs, SysAdmins, Software Developers, CISOs, threat teams, red teams, testing groups, etc. etc, but really should it be? It seems more like a jobs program that moves headcount from one part of the enterprise to the expensive nerdy-side. Sitting through a number of presentations at various cyber conferences recently I’m struck that many enterprises cyber security planning comes down to having ‘the best people’

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'Is Docker, and for that matter containers in general full-on competition to VMware and other virtualization platforms? Docker has announced platform level features that include network virtualization and clustering. However, not every workload is suitable for containers. Containers lack much.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'Three patents describe two different container cooling systems, power supply system Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'It is that time of the year when annual predictions are made for the upcoming year, including those that will be repeated next year or that were also made last year. Then there are the gift lists or trying to figure out what to get that difficult to shop for person particular geek’s who may have everything, or want the latest and greatest that others have, or something their peers don’t have yet.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'By Dan Cybulski. It is no secret that today’s data intensive analytics are stressing traditional storage systems. The capacity of individual drives continues to increase while performance sees little change. As such, organizations are leveraging horizontal scale and non-volatile memory (NVM) technology (i.e. SSD) to bolster the performance of traditional storage platforms and support the ever-increasing IOPS and bandwidth requirements of their applications.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'I decided to create walk-thru’s to Johnathan Frappier’s #vDM30in30 labs. While I have no intention in doing 30 videos in 30 days Johnathan has laid out a very good framework for setting up a lab and I thought video walk-thu’s.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'FBI warns that Iranian hacker group may be ready to target US businesses that deal with defense contractors, energy firms and educational institutions. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'Do you need or want to do a Do It Yourself (DIY) build of a small server compute cluster, or a software defined storage cluster (e.g. scale-out), or perhaps a converged storage for VMware VSAN, Microsoft SOFS or something else? Do you need a new server, second or third server, or expand a cluster, create a lab or similar and want the ability to tailor your system without shopping or a motherboard, enclosure, power supply and so forth?

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'By ChrisScott. This report provides insights into the mission needs of the US Military in and around the Pacific command. If you are registered please Login Here. To request a login Sign Up Here.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'You might have noticed that blog content has been a bit sparse over the last few weeks. The reason I haven’t generated any new content is because all my spare time is taken up with preparing to migrate this site to a new hosting platform. Sometime over the holiday season, I’ll be migrating this site from a hosted WordPress installation to Jekyll running on GitHub Pages.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'It''s time to get out there and get noticed. The IT industry is hot, and cloud is the hottest thing in IT Read More.

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