CTOvision

JULY 8, 2015

The entire U.S. travel system is under strain today causing a major disruption to business and pleasure travel on all carriers do to what United is calling a computer systems "glitch". What is a glitch? We have all seen those before. The most famous aviation computer glitch was Johnny in the movie Airplane. Was Johnny to blame this time? The fact is that these are very complex systems of systems and there are possibilities of cascading failures that can collapse the entire system.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 7, 2015

Data center investment in rural Washington State has topped $4 billion dollars, and the extensions are expected to help move forward several projects totaling hundreds of millions of dollars Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 7, 2015

In “ Big Data, Big Analytics and You ”, I wrote: “Big data is obviously important to most organizations. There’s plenty of data out there and even more data being generated every day. But big analytics is just as important. Without the ability to analyze the data you have at the speed and scale it is being generated, your organization will never really be able to fully take advantage of big data.”.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 5, 2015

I was surprised over the lackluster response to my last post, Why a QA Practice Is Critical to Long Term Success. After all, if more organizations are looking to achieve continuous delivery, why are we not talking about the critical role QA plays in a DevOps transformation? If more organizations are investing in self-service BI programs, how are these new dashboards being tested before they.

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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

JULY 7, 2015

Recorded Future provides real time threat intelligence to cyber defenders as well as business executives seeking insights to inform decisions. They leverage a patented Web Intelligence Engine over with billions of indexed facts (and more added daily) to analyze the open web to provide insights. One category of the many sites they ingest is paste sites.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 6, 2015

Through geolocation and a cloud platform spanning several continents, tournament watchers can view real-time data behind the global race in ways beyond regular television broadcasting Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 8, 2015

IT staff can only grow in their jobs if the risk level is manageable Image Credit: epSos.de. As the person with the CIO job, you want to be in charge of the best IT department possible. It turns out that this means that in addition to getting the rest of the company to understand the importance of information technology, you want to have the best people working for you.

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CTOvision

JULY 8, 2015

One of our most important lines of business at Cognitio is helping high tech firms that can solve big problems for the federal government succeed in doing that. We are firm believers that advanced technologies, smartly tailored to address federal agency missions, are key to a better future. As realists we also know that many startup CEOs really wonder whether they should pursue the federal market.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 8, 2015

Hybrid cloud environments are proving to be a best-of-both-worlds solution to handling big data and all that it encompasses. Read More.

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Cloud Musings

JULY 10, 2015

Data security breaches and hacker attacks on private businesses , health organizations and government agencies in the U.S. have grabbed headlines with increasing frequency, it seems. There is zero doubt about the damage these events cause. Cybercriminals and hackers walk away with customers’ payment card information and employee data while companies and federal authorities investigate the source of the leaks and spend millions of dollars to repair the harm.

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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.

Open Source

Future of CIO

JULY 7, 2015

Innovative leaders must be strategic as well, and they must take the risk in order to discover new opportunities that would lead the correct path. With the increasing speed of change and continuous digital disruption, innovation in organizations is no longer "nice to have," but "must have" strategy and practice, because of the inevitability of competition, and uncertainty of business dynamic.

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CTOvision

JULY 10, 2015

We hold Ben Spivey and Joey Echeverria in the highest regard, and are very pleased to give this book our highest possible endorsement. Hadoop Security: Protecting Your Big Data Platform is packed with the protective strategies, tips and techniques you will want to build into your designs early in your data modernization efforts. Title: Hadoop Security.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 6, 2015

Software-defined storage addresses the three biggest challenges facing enterprise administrators: the explosion of data, management costs, and capacity forecasting. Read More.

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Database Star

JULY 8, 2015

In this article, I’ll show you what line numbers are in SQL Developer and how to turn this setting on. What Are Line Numbers in SQL Developer? Line numbers are numbers that are next to each line in the Code Editor. They indicate which line of code you’re working on. They are helpful for developers for many reasons: They let you see how many lines of code you’ve written They help with debugging errors , as error messages usually refer to a line number (related: 7 Debugging Tips

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Future of CIO

JULY 8, 2015

Being gile requires a lot of discipline around practices. Holacracy requires a lot of discipline around governance and structure. "Holacracy is a new way of running an organization that removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across clear roles, which can then be executed autonomously, without a micromanaging boss. The work is actually more structured than in a conventional company, just differently so.

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CTOvision

JULY 6, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem: Senate advances secret plan forcing Internet services to report terror activity Ars Technica (Today) - Legislation modeled on 2008 law requiring Internet companies to report child porn.The legislation, approved 15-0 in a closed-door hearing, remains "classified." The relevant text is contained in the 2016 intelligence.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 9, 2015

By following best practices for designing a data center's physical security infrastructure system, you can ensure it will be effective and compliant. Read More.

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Database Star

JULY 9, 2015

The Oracle RTRIM function is one of the most commonly used string manipulation functions in SQL. Learn more about it and see some examples in this article. Purpose of the Oracle RTRIM Function The Oracle RTRIM function removes all characters that you specify from the right side of a string. This is most often used when you want to remove spaces from the right side of the string.

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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

JULY 5, 2015

The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software with the totality in action, hardware plus software. According to the theory of left-brain or right-brain dominance, each side of the brain controls different types of thinking. Additionally, people are said to prefer one type of thinking over the other. It has been shown that in many ways the two parts of the brain work separately yet without apparent conflict.

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CTOvision

JULY 10, 2015

You can measure practically anything in the age of social media, but if you don’t know what you’re looking for, collecting mountains of data won’t yield a grain of insight. This non-technical guide shows you how to extract significant business value from big data with Ask-Measure-Learn, a system that helps you ask the right questions, measure the right data, and then learn from the results.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 8, 2015

A web-based interactive interface makes it easier to see and understand what's going on, while enhanced role-based management gives colo-friendly views Read More.

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Database Star

JULY 10, 2015

In this article, I’ll explain what the SQL Developer Autocommit feature is, where to find it, and how to turn it on or off. What Is SQL Developer Autocommit? When you write an SQL statement in SQL Developer, you perform an operation on that data. If you’re just reading the data, this is pretty straightforward. Where it acts differently is when you change data in the database.

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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.

Case Study

Future of CIO

JULY 9, 2015

An organizational structure carries inherent capabilities as to what can be achieved within its frame. Innovation is to transform novel ideas and achieve its business value. However, for most of the organizations, innovation, especially breakthrough innovation, is still a serendipity. There are many factors to decide innovation success. From an organizational structure perspective, how can you get well organized for managing innovation more effectively?

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2015

Imagine having your arm as your mobile device. Looking at texts, social media, news, phone and more on your forearm. No longer would you have to root in your purse to pick up your ringing phone, or find it buried in a pocket. With a quick flick of your wrist, your phone becomes visible on your arm. With the Cicret Bracelet , your skin becomes your new touch screen.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 9, 2015

Cooling data centers and other mission-critical environments is an ever-changing challenge. Doing so in an energy efficient manner is an even bigger challenge. Today the CRAC (Computer Room Air Conditioning) units in use at most facilities rely on mechanically-modulating fixed speed or fixed.

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com ): Top Security Experts Say Government Limits On Encryption Present Risks TechCrunch (Today) - A group of top cybersecurity experts reported today that giving law enforcement special access to encrypted data for investigations would pose “major security risks.

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If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): AWS Announces New API Gateway Service TechCrunch (Today) - Amazon Web Services announced a new product today called Amazon API Gateway, designed to simplify creation and management of APIs. Today, many companies want to give access to back-end services to.

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CTOvision

JULY 8, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): The 7 Drivers Of The $150 Billion AR/VR Industry TechCrunch (Today) - To hit true market scale, AR and VR will need to rapidly transition from 2016’s early adopters to 2020’s mass consumers by delivering against 7 key drivers.

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CTOvision

JULY 10, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): World Wide Technology Named Federal Partner of the Year and Software. - Business Wire (press release) Google Fed Tech News (Today) - World Wide Technology Named Federal Partner of the Year and Software.Business Wire (press release)ST.

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

At ISC High Performance 2015 Conference (12-16 July Frankfurt Germany), Bright Computing will release their Version 7.1 of the Bright Cluster Manager. For those of you attending, visit Booth #920 to meet with Bright Computing engineers who were involved in the development of their latest version, and walk you though the latest enhancements. "The enhancements made in Version 7.1 of Bright Cluster Manager for HPC further reduce the complexity of on-premise HPC," said Dr.

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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.