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Another Topic For Us To Discuss At Geoint: Google Glass for National Security Missions

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Today is the first day of the Geoint Symposium. Most of the events are special, pre-events that dive deep into key mission areas, but the convention center is humming with activity. I picked up my credentials and walked the halls a bit, with my Google Glass. I didn’t see any other Glass users, so have decided I will not be walking around with the devices on my head, I’ll only pull them out and wear them in sessions were it is ok to record or when I am watching a demo

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Microsoft to Build New $1.1 Billion Data Center in Iowa

Data Center Knowledge

'Microsoft is building even bigger in Iowa. The company today unveiled plans to invest a whopping $1.1 billion in a new data center campus in West Des Moines, where it already operates a large server farm. Read More.

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Wearable Technology: Fad or Trend?

CIO Musings

'This article caught my eye today. Apparently many folks who buy wearable technology don''t keep using it over time. This doesn''t surprise me, read on to find out why. I have seen a variety of form factors of wearable technology advertised or reviewed recently including watches, rings, cuffs and bracelets. I have some of them on order. I use a Pebble smart-watch almost every day at work.

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How To Question Developers and Learn What is Really Going On

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Anyone who''s ever worked with me knows that I love spending time with developers. I will ask simple questions, "What are you working on?", "Can I see the code?", "Who is also working on this requirement and what are they doing?", and my favorite question, "How will your work help customers?". This is far more than just getting in touch with the staff and understanding what''s going on.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Tech Firms Seeking To Serve Federal Missions: Here is how to follow the money

CTOvision

'Editor''s note: Chris Scott has deep insights into how government works. Let us know if you would like more info on any of this.-bg With this post I''ll provide some of my personal observations and insights from the the 24th Annual Government Procurement Conference. The conference was held this week at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in DC.

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As It Expands in San Antonio, Microsoft Sees Data Centers Transforming the Power Grid

Data Center Knowledge

'Microsoft wants to use its data centers to help transform the way electricity is delivered in the United States. That process will focus on San Antonio, TX, where the company has confirmed plans to build a new $250 million data center. Read More.

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The Value of Data

Eric D. Brown

'I’m always on the look-out for stories of companies using data and analytics to manage their business. In a recent case study, IBM presented the story of the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium’s use of data and analytics to better predict visitor behavior. According to the story, prior to taking a data-driven management approach, the Port Defiance Zoo and Aquarium would guess how many visitors they would have each day.

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Google Acquires Drone Maker Titan Aerospace

CTOvision

'By ShannonPerry. Young tech companies certainly do not shy away from innovation or acquisition. Two examples: this year, Facebook acquired virtual reality firm Oculus in an effort to develop new communication lines, and Google purchased DeepMind, pushing into the artificial intelligence sphere. The money involved wasn’t exactly pocket change; each acquisition cost upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Inside SubTropolis: LightEdge Opens Data Center in Underground Complex

Data Center Knowledge

'LightEdge Solutions has turned on the juice at the SubTropolis Technology Center, a new data center campus housed completely within SubTropolis, the 5-million-square foot underground business complex in Kansas City. Read More.

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Have A Very Happy Easter!

The Accidental Successful CIO

'If It's Easter, Then Spring Must Be Here! Finally! Easter has finally arrived. I hope that you are going to be able to take some time off and celebrate this special season as Spring is just around the corner and Winter is quickly becoming a distant memory! I’m going to take this week off and get some well deserved rest. However, I’ll be back next week with some great new CIO tips and techniques for you.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Links for April 13 2014

Eric D. Brown

'Leading IT Through Trust and Ownership. Quote : I need my entire IT staff to think “outside / in” by learning about and caring about the lives of our customers. We can do that by walking a mile in their shoes. What is it like to be a call center agent? Spend a day with them and see. What is it like to use the technology we create? Ask to be on the implementation team of our newest customer.

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Creating The New Cyber Warrior: Eight South Carolina Universities Compete

CTOvision

'When Defense Secretary Hagel announced that he was going to expand his cyber workforce by more than 6,000 by the end of 2016, I think most of us in the industry collectively wondered: “Where the heck is he going to FIND these cyber warriors?” While almost every University is paying attention to this career enhancing qualification, it’s currently very hard to get an education in Cyber Defense.

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Will High Frequency Trading Become A Flash in The Pan?

Data Center Knowledge

'Given recent events, those salespeople and sales managers should be getting a little concerned, especially if they understand the clients'' business models. Most publicly, the Volcker Rule — part of the Dodd?Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — threatens the basic legality of high.

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EMC and VMware are disrupting Server SAN

Virtualized Greek

'The Server SAN market is pretty new but VMware and EMC have already started disrupting the market. Both VMware and EMC have entered the competition of hyper-converged infrastructures or more specifically the Server SAN market with purely software plays. VMware with an impressive solution called VSAN (not vSAN) built around their vSphere hypervisor solution.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Crossing the Threshold

Scott Lowe

'Last week while attending the CloudStack Collaboration Conference in my home city of Denver, I had a bit of a realization. I wanted to share it here in the hopes that it might serve as an encouragement for others out there. Long-time readers know that one of my projects over the last couple of years has been to become more fluent in Linux (refer back to my 2012 project list and my 2013 project list ).

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Pew Report: Increasing Technology Use among Seniors

CTOvision

'While younger generations are known to quickly adapt to technological advances, older adults and seniors have traditionally lagged behind – preferring TV to the Internet or landlines to cell phones. But the Pew Research Center published a report on April 3rd finding that seniors (adults aged 65 or older) are increasingly incorporating social networking, cell phones, tablets, and e-books into their lives.

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Servers as Radiators: Can a Data Center Heat Stockholm?

Data Center Knowledge

'Sweden''s Bahnhof are known for creating offbeat data center designs, including a subterranean bunker designed to look like the lair of a James Bond villain.Now the company is talking about recycling the heat generated from the data center to heat surrounding housing. Read More.

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OpenStack alone doesn’t prevent vendor lock-in

Virtualized Greek

'We are four years into the whole OpenStack Revolution. One of the principal concerns four years ago was the ability of the platform to avoid vendor lock-in.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Running IT as a Business

Future of CIO

IT is part of the business to contribute top line growth, moving beyond as a service provider. Technologies play a pivotal role in driving business innovation, optimizing business process and improving both customers and employees' satisfaction, how about internal IT, how do you view the role of the IT department today? Is it a solution provider, support provider, service provider, all three?

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An Update: A CTO’s Perspective On the USGIF GeoInt Symposium 14-17 Apr 2014

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. For a short update on some key issues to track, sessions to watch and tech to see on during the 14-17 Apr USGIF GeoInt Symposium see the video at this link (it is also embedded below): Thanks for watching! For more like this please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Related articles. Now That You Are Headed To Geoint, What Should You Do There?

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CoreSite Powers Up With Double-Stacked Generators

Data Center Knowledge

'At its NY2 data center, CoreSite has stacked the massive generators that provide emergency backup power for the huge new facility. Our photo feature provides a look inside the new Secaucus, New Jersey data center. Read More.

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Software Defined vs. Virtualized Data Center – Tech Talk 39

Virtualized Greek

'Simply virtualizing a data center doesn’t mean that it’s a software defined data center (SDDC). One of the principal goals of software defined is to support the cloud data center.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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What’s the First Step in Building a Great Performance Dashboard

Future of CIO

A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in the annual report. A performance dashboard is a useful tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency. But what’s the simple first step enables you to implement useful Performance Dashboards, that ‘ideally’ from day one delivers high-quality performance management information?

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Finding The Elusive Data Scientist In The Federal Space

CTOvision

'Everyone is talking about the data scientist. Harvard Business Review called it the "Sexiest Job of the 21st Century". Friends from across industry and academia have also been using this term and I have met so many real data scientists that are making big differences for their organizations. Except in the federal space. A near-universal gap exists across all Government Organizations these days.

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Bomb Threat at Google Data Center Prompts Evacuation

Data Center Knowledge

'The Google data center in South Carolina was evacuated this morning after a report of a bomb threat, according to local media. Read More.

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Podcast: The value of a college degree to your tech career

Virtualized Greek

'My post regarding the topic of the value of a college degree in tech prompted a discussion with Mark Dyson on TheVoiceOfJobSeekers.com Podcast. The Voice of JobSeeker is a blog published by Mark Anthony Dyson a professional career coach and resume writer.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Shall a CIO be a General Manager of IT or a SME of all IT Domains?

Future of CIO

CIOs may not be the SME of all IT domains, but they should understand technology enough to ensure they have a keen sense of judgment on the priorities for IT investment. Today’s CIOs have multiple roles to play and take broader leadership responsibilities in transforming their organizations. Should a CIO be a general manager of IT or a subject matter expert (SME) of all IT domains?

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Update from DIA CTO, CIO and Chief Engineer on ICITE and Enterprise Apps

CTOvision

'At this link and embedded below (recorded at the USGIF Geoint Symposium) is a video featuring Gus Taveras, Dan Doney and Matt Carroll on several mechanisms put in place to open up their enterprise to innovations. This builds on many community efforts taking place under the ICITE collection of projects. This video is worth watching for several reasons, including: 1) It provides a great overview of contributions being made by many key agencies to the int.

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DCeP-tive Metrics Are Not Productive

Data Center Knowledge

'Data Center energy Productivity, abbreviated DCeP, has been the focus of recent attention. Mark Monroe, of DLB Associates, and formerly of the Green Grid, asks if DCeP is really a valuable and useful metric for the data center industry. Read More.

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NOS 4.0 Cluster Health – Preemptive Disk Failure Alerting for the ROBO

Nutanix

Prior to 4.0 Nutanix would track disk errors and eventually mark the drive offline and rebuild the data if the drive was failing. Cluster Health allows the end user to get insight into whats going on before the drive is marked offline.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

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.