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Target Post Mortem: Exposure of the Soft Underbelly of Point of Sale Systems

CTOvision

'By WayneWheeles Editor’s note: Wayne Wheeles has established a fantastic reputation as a pioneer in applying big data solutions to enterprise cyber security mission needs. -bg. Much like the Lufthansa heist of 1978 , the recent Target data breach has captured the attention of the American people; focusing them on the incredible threat potential posed by cybercrime.

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As Bitcoin Infrastructure Booms, Mining Heads to the Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'After getting started in garages and server closets, bitcoin mining is moving into data centers and the cloud. Some traditional data center providers will benefit, but this transition also has the potential to enrich a new generation of entrepreneurs emerging from within the bitcoin community.

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CIO CMO Partnership - The Modernized Technology Selection Process

Social, Agile and Transformation

'One of the best places a CIO and CMO to collaborate is when selecting new technologies and capabilities. As I showed in my last post, 5 Tips On Starting a Killer CIO - CMO Relationship, developing proof of concepts and pilots around new vendor technologies is an important area for partnership - Marketing owns the business driver and often the funding, while IT typically has the process and.

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How CIOs Can Help Their Company To Set The Right Price

The Accidental Successful CIO

'IT can play a role in helping the company to set the right price for their products Image Credit. In order for your company to be successful, they need to sell their product or service to the right customer at the right price. It turns out that this may be more difficult than you think. Here in the 21st Century, determining what the right price for a product is requires a great deal of support from the IT department and is just one more example of the importance of information technology.

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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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Attend the 6 Feb @Cloudera Federal Forum: For the Analyst, Data Scientist, #BigData Technologist in DC

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley The agenda for the 3rd Annual Cloudera Federal Forum (6 Feb 2014, Hanover MD) has firmed up and will no doubt lead to an incredible event. This will be a great venue for thought leaders from the federal government, great tech firms and very talented integrator firms. The speakers are a world-class-best mix of data and analysis practitioners, and from what I can tell the attendees will be the real action-oriented professionals from government really making things happen in Big Dat

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Why Does Gmail Go Down? January 2014 Edition

Data Center Knowledge

'So how does a widely-used app like Gmail go down, as it has today? There have been a number of Gmail outages over the years, usually involving software updates or networking issues.

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Why the Internet of Things is also Industry 4.0

The Investing Edge

'This post is the second installment of a three-part series on the Internet of Things. The first post can be found here. Robert Bosch is a German-based global leader in brake and automotive technology that has established a 500-person subsidiary, Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions, to develop sensors and actuators for the Internet of Things (“IoT”).

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Watch This Important Context On IBM and Lenovo from @SiliconAngle

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley At this link and embedded below Dave Vellante of Silicon Angle leads a discussion with Stu Miniman and David Floyer on the $2.3 Billion purchase of IBM’s server business by Lenovo. Dave, Stu and David are three of the most plugged in/truth seeking analysts in this space. They are always thinking and writing about these issues are are continuously in direct contact with decision makers in the enterprise market and also with leaders in the IT community.

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Pre-fabrication: A New Way of Architecting Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Today, data centers must be able to keep up with the pace of business where computing demands continue to increase at warp speed, and many managers are finding that legacy infrastructure can be expensive and difficult to scale as needed, writes Steven Carlini of Schneider Electric. To avoid these.

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Robocopy: How to exclude a directory on the destination while using the mirror switch

Mick's IT Blog

'I ran into a situation where we had to mirror our local DFS to all of the remote DFS locations. The problem was that there was one directory in each of the remote shares that was unique to that location and had to remain untouched. The first thing I thought of was to have powershell parse through the base directory trees and perform a recursive robocopy on each base.

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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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ReBoot – Golf and Big Data

A CIO's Voice

'I am a horrible golfer. I am first to admit it. I struggle with having a complete game. There are days when my long game is on point and others when my short game and putting is phenomenal. It is rare that both are working together. I struggle with it because I want to improve. Like anything in life, if I was good at it from the start what fun will be that be?

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NIST To Hold Data Science Symposium 4-5 March 2014

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory is holding a Data Science Symposium we believe will be of high interest to the enterprise CTO community. Symposium topics include the technology landscape of data science, ways to improve analytics, and better ways to approach and manage datasets.

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Five Great Ways to Optimize Your Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'The data center is becoming ever-more more critical to the success of the modern business. Columnist Bill Kleyman looks at five great ways to optimize your data center infrastructure for peak efficiency and productivity.

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Yes you know technology but that’s not enough to keep a job

Virtualized Greek

'Popular thought is eventually every product gets commoditized. Some industries may take longer than others, but competition normally catches the market leader and costs a driven down. Or more efficient ways of providing a product or service is developed. Vendors then have to find some way to add value around the commoditized product. I’m wondering if enterprise infrastructure engineer is quickly becoming a commodity and what value-add needs to occur to stay happily employed.

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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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Automatically Connecting LXC to Open vSwitch

Scott Lowe

'I’ve previously discussed using Open vSwitch (OVS) with Linux Containers (LXC) in a couple of previous posts ( here and here ). In this post, I’m going to show you one way to have your containers automatically connected to OVS on startup without having to use libvirt. I tested this configuration using Ubuntu 12.04 with the Linux 3.8.0 kernel and an alpha release of LXC 1.0.0 from the precise-backports repository.

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A CTO’s Guide To The Top Federal Technology Topics of 2013

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley You know the top federal IT news of 2013, after all, you probably lived it. We all tracked topics like the Shutdown and its impact on IT, HealthCare.gov, NSA programs, Data Center consolidation efforts. Every one of those stories have something in common. None of them were really about technology. The really interesting stories, at least from a CTO perspective, are big technology mega trends that are forcing change and positive improvements in enterprise IT.

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7 Tips for Managing Preventive Maintenance at Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Preventative maintenance ensures maximum reliability by taking precautionary and proactive steps to reduce unscheduled equipment downtime and other avoidable failures. The purpose of preventive maintenance is to institute scheduled inspections so that defects can be spotted before they evolve into.

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Lenovo buys IBM’s xSeries aka x86 server business, what about EMC?

Storage IO Blog

'Lenovo buys IBM’s xSeries x86 server business for $2.3B USD, what about EMC? Once again Lenovo is new owner of some IBM computer technology, this time by acquiring the x86 (e.g. xSeries) server business unit from big blue. Today Lenovo announced its plan to acquire the IBM x86 server storage business unit for $2.3B USD. […].

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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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The year of the Unicorn – TechTalk 34

Virtualized Greek

'Episode 34 it’s all about the impact of the Cloud on the IT worker. - Chris Wahl . - Geek Whisperers Episode 34. - The Role of the Enterprise Engineer.

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Exemplar Technologist and CEO Pamela Arya of @Optensity named @WITWomen Leadership Award Finalist

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley With this post I would like to share some good news and offer a public congratulations to friend Pam Arya of Optensity , as well as the other exemplars of leadership listed below. The following is from the press release at [link] : Women in Technology Announces Finalists for 15th Annual Leadership Awards. Professional Women in the Washington, D.C.

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How to Prepare Private Cloud Services with a Hybrid Cloud Future in Mind

Data Center Knowledge

'Both the value and types of hybrid cloud models available are expanding, writes Adam Fore of NetApp. And this means IT managers need to re-think their approach, using their expertise to assess cloud services and deploy applications to the best-suited resource, public cloud, private cloud, or.

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IT and data center sustainability, the other convergence zone

Storage IO Blog

'IT and data center sustainability convergence Recently Hailey Lynne McKeefry (@HaileyMcK), Editor in Chief over at Data Center Acceleration (@DataAccelerate) reached out for a conversation about well, data center themes and topics. Given Hailey’s background in covering technology as well as business supply chain we somehow ended up talking about business, IT and 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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Consolidation

A Screw's Loose

'Well, no one was expecting this. Everyone knew and had conjectured that VMware was going to be buying someone in the MDM (Mobile Device Management) space, but to be fair AirWatch was never on the radar. Some of that was due to the fact that CEO John Marshall had declared that he wasn’t interested in [.].

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Enterprise-wide Visualization and Optimization of Applications and Databases

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. This post was written on behalf of Corvil to help further the dialog on efficient IT operations. Every enterprise has users that expect performance of their applications. Users want applications that are responsive to their needs, accurate and loaded with the right data. From a user perspective any problem is a problem with IT, whether that problem comes from slow communications, data bottlenecks, slow servers or overloaded end devices.

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Lenovo to Buy IBM’s x86 Server Business for $2.3 Billion

Data Center Knowledge

'Lenovo plans to acquire IBM’s x86 server business for $2.3 billion, the companies said today. With the deal, Lenovo gets IBM''s System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers.

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Securing your information assets and data, what about your storage?

Storage IO Blog

'Securing your information assets and data, what about your storage? Recently I did a piece over at the site Information Security Buzz title How Secure Is Your Data Storage? that takes a cursory look at securing your digital assets from a storage perspective. Keep in mind that data protection can mean many things to different […].

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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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Checking your sign-in history in Outlook.com

Sean Daniel

'Well, I thought I knew everything about Hotmail.err. Outlook.com there was to know, but instead I was talking to a friend today who said that a month or so ago, someone tried to access his account from Chili. Wait, what?! how does he know this? Your Microsoft Account stores all the successful and unsuccessful log in attempts in your profile for you to view at any time.

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Optimizing VoIP: Good Use Case for Enterprise Metrics And Monitoring

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley This post was written on behalf of Corvil to help further the dialog on efficient IT operations. Voice over IP (VoIP) is one of the most widely deployed enterprise IT capabilities, and it is also one of the greatest contributions to business success IT provides. It can be an incredibly economical way to link enterprise users together.

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Cisco Boosts UCS With Invicta Flash Memory, New Nexus Switches

Data Center Knowledge

'With application requirements driving the need for architecture flexibility, Cisco announced an expansion of its Nexus Switching portfolio, boosted performance on UCS compute fabrics by adding Invicta solid-state flash memory solutions.

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A Strategic CIO

Future of CIO

Strategic CIOs wear many colors: the color of their thoughts; the color of their character, the color of their role and the color of their talent. Modern CIOs have to wear multiple hats nowadays, from business strategist to tactical manager; from customer champion to talent master. A qualified CIO has to be a strategist, but what image comes to mind when you think of strategic CIOs?

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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.