CIO Musings
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
'We are hiring a ton of positions over the next few months. The jobs are posted on [link]. More information can be found there and you can apply on line. Why is Chesterfield VA a great place to work? Lots of reasons. Excellence - We have been the #1 digital county in the USA twice in the last 4 years. In 2010 we were voted as having the best county website in the nation.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 1, 2014
'By Bob Gourley I’ve known Kevin Smith of Novetta Solutions for years and have been a huge fan of both his ability to write about technology and his ability to field enterprise grade solutions that really work. He knows real enterprise solutions require focused planning, solid designs and an attitude of enterprise-focused teamwork. He is the kind of author that writes well because he writes frequently and writes relevant because he fields real solutions.
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Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
'KnC Miner is building Bitcoin''s version of the Death Star - a 10 megawatt data center filled with high-powered computers mining for cryptocurrency. The new facility is in Boden, Sweden, just 10 miles down the road from a Facebook data center.
Fountainhead
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
'A few weeks ago I had the privilege of speaking with a number of our Citrix Service Providers at Citrix Summit in Orlando. There is no doubt in my mind that the Managed Services industry is shifting… away from commodity services (dedicated servers, websites, Exchange mailboxes) and toward more holistic, higher-value hosting and outsourcing services.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
'CIOs have to see the world differently than everyone else Image Credit. In order to be a successful CIO, you need to be able to look at the world around us differently than everyone else. All of the things that you’ll be seeing will be the same things that everyone else sees; it’s just how you interpret the things that you see that needs to be done differently.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
'By Bob Gourley We often highlight the importance of applying security controls to your enterprise. Our favorite model for doing that is the 20 Critical Controls coordinated by community leaders and curated at SANS (available here ). When you read of a government agency being penetrated or a corporation losing data I can almost always guarantee you that they have failed to implement and measure these controls.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
'Email Marketing by Bill Rice If you want a tool to keep your Inbox cleaner, try this. Create an email filtering rule that looks for these phrases, "privacy policy", "webinar", "webcast", or "unsubscribe" and move these emails to a separate folder. I call is the "Noise" folder. You''ll be amazed how many marketing emails get pushed out of your Inbox with this simple filter allowing you to focus.
The Investing Edge
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
'This post is the final installment of a three-part series on the Internet of Things, along with What Nest Just Did for the Internet of Things and Why the Internet of Things is also Industry 4.0. The technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) falls into four broad categories: sensors, software, platforms, and networks and connections. Most of the technology is at a point where the IoT can and will grow at a fairly aggressive rate.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
'By Deepak Kumar Editor’s note: This guest post is by Deepak Kumar, Founder and CTO of Adaptiva. – bg. Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. New technologies like these are delivering dramatic efficiency gains in many areas; however, they are stressing infrastructure and creating unrealistic expectations.
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
'Facebook is working on ways to streamline its data center construction, but it hasn''t yet decided whether to go the Lego route or try the IKEA approach. The goal is to create a repeatable design for a "Rapid Deployment Data Center" that can work anywhere in the world.
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.
Eric D. Brown
FEBRUARY 2, 2014
'Can Do vs. Can’t Do Cultures – Ben’s Blog. Quote : Who does the Can’t Do Culture hurt the most? Ironically, it hurts the haters. The people who focus on what’s wrong with an idea or a company will be the ones too fearful to try something that other people find stupid. They will be too jealous to learn from the great innovators. They will be too pig headed to discover the brilliant young engineer who changes the world before she does.
Cloud Musings
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
'Refusing to accept the 30 percent unemployment rate for California veterans between the ages of 18 and 24, Veterans 360 (V360) offers recently-separated combat veterans the opportunity for a solid and productive future. Using a four-pronged approach which encompasses engagement, education, employment, and healing, V360 prepares and equips veterans with the interpersonal and professional skills they will need for a successful transition back into civilian life.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
'By Bob Gourley DARPA funds research in many areas and their wide and deep connections in academia, industry and with many private citizens means much of this is already shared. But in a continuing effort to find better ways to share what can be shared they have just built an online catalog for sharable code and peer-reviewed research. The first focus area is the ongoing DARPA XDATA activity.
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
'Amazon plays its part by taking care of the data center as well as taking care of your virtual instances, then the security ball comes to your court, writes James Mascarenhas of Endpoint Vault. What security measures you take will decide how more or less vulnerable your virtual instance going to be.
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All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
'In the 2013 Amazon Shareholder letter , Jeff Bezos spent time explaining the decision to pursue a customer-centric way in our business. As regular readers of this letter will know, our energy at Amazon comes from the desire to impress customers rather than the zeal to best competitors. We don’t take a view on which of these approaches is more likely to maximize business success.
Cloud Musings
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
'In keeping with their mission to support young combat veterans’ transition into civilian life, Veterans 360 plans to launch a free Cloud Technology Certification training program. Vets360-Cloud will give veterans of all ages the opportunity to obtain meaningful employment in the Cloud Technology industry. Cloud computing is quickly emerging as one of the most in-demand skills in IT.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Has your startup been growing? Awesome. You may be wondering if it is time to stand up a dedicated federal office. You will want to time this just right. If you do it too early you will be wasting money. If you do it too late you will be losing an opportunity to grow and to serve the nation. Here are some tips that can help you think through the timing of your federal office standup: List of Considerations for Deciding When to Stand Up Your Federal Office.
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
'Conor Malone, vice president of engineering at Hyve, shows us what Data Direct Networks, a storage company, and Nebula, an open source cloud initiative, are doing with Hyve chassis and servers in this video filmed at the Open Compute Summit V.
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Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
'Welcome to Technology Short Take #38, another installment in my irregularly-published series that collects links and thoughts on data center-related technologies from around the web. But enough with the introduction, let’s get on to the content already! Networking. Jason Edelman does some experimenting with the Python APIs on a Cisco Nexus 3000.
Cloud Musings
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
'Over the holidays I actually spent some time reviewing the newly released " Managing IaaS and DBaaS Clouds with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c ". This book is a step-by-step tutorial filled with practical examples which will show readers how to configure and manage IaaS and DBaaS with Oracle Enterprise Manager. If you are a cloud administrator or a user of self-service provisioning systems offered by this Oracle product, this book is ideal for you.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 1, 2014
'By Bob Gourley FedCyber hosts events that are off the record. We do that because this is a gathering to work big issues and we need an environment where real decision-makers can feel free to speak their mind. Attendees capture info to take back to their organizations, and some summary minutes and action items are captured, but that is all. At least, that is all from the plenary sessions.
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
'Just two months after the best-known ARM server vendor abruptly closed its doors, two leading technology companies - AMD and Dell - are seeking to establish leadership in this emerging segment of the server market.
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A Screw's Loose
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
'MDM is dead and it’s been dead for a long time. It no longer makes sense as a product and businesses have begun to finally realize it and not buy into the hype. The fact that it has become the household name for the technology to manage mobile is just sad. The good news, at [.
Virtualized Greek
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
'It’s a more common question than you think. Enterprises are feeling the pressure to save on operational expenses. It’s common to look to open source as a potential cost saver. In episode 36 we have the conversation.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
'By Bob Gourley The ModevGov conference will be held 26 Feb 2014 at the Artisphere in Rosslyn Virginia. The speakers at this event are an awesome cross section of developers, strategists, government professionals and world class technologists. Sign up at: [link]. Here is more from their site: More than $82 billion on Federal IT spending is planned in 2014—with significant, continued growth happening in mobility and app development (more than 50% growth in mobile development among Federal agenci
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
'Apple is building its own content delivery network (CDN) to deliver services to consumers, according to reports from Dan Rayburn and The Wall Street Journal.
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Storage IO Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
'On the other hand, the current powers to be would lodge protest, change the benchmark or rules to stay in power, hmm, sound familiar with IT?
Future of CIO
FEBRUARY 1, 2014
Business Process Management is a Journey, not a One-Time Project. Business processes underpin business capabilities, a progressive organization should always take process improvement and optimization as a journey, not a one-time project, in order to build competitive advantage, however, how to select the right process to improve? Selecting processes to improve should be based on organization goals, strategy, and KPIs.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
'By Bob Gourley Project Ray is the world’s first smartphone developed with advanced mobile technology for intuitive eye-free operation. The blind and visually impaired can now enjoy greater independence, spontaneity and accessibility to valuable daily services that we all take for granted in today’s smartphone world (for an overview see the video at this link and embedded below).
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
'The appetite for everything digital shows no signs of being satiated; the data center will continue to be front and center, wrties Jack Pouchet of Emerson Network Power. The most recent analysis of the "state of the data center" shows no signs of diminished growth.
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