Sat.Apr 04, 2015 - Fri.Apr 10, 2015

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SAS and Apache Hadoop for Government

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. New in the CTOvision Research Library: We have just posted an overview of an architectural assessment we produced laying out best practices and design patterns for the use of SAS and Apache Hadoop, with a focus on the government sector. Download this overview at: SAS and Apache Hadoop for Government. Here is more: Enterprises in government are awash in more data than they can make sense of.

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Data Center Layout Visualization With XML and XSLT

Data Center Knowledge

'When it comes to using DCIM software to create a data center layout, the best solution is to use Javascript to draw the model and XML and XSLT for visualization and for creating user interaction based on real-time data. Read More.

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Beware the Strategy Trap(s)

Eric D. Brown

'A nice short post over on Farnam Street today highlights the various traps that people and companies can find themselves in when they begin looking at strategy and strategic planning. The article, titled “ Six Strategy Traps “, highlights a passage from a great book on strategy by Roger Martin and A. G. Lafley titled “ Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works.” I’ve read the book and enjoyed it.

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SCCM: SCCM PowerShell SCUP Alternative

Mick's IT Blog

'I have wanted to be able to update an application on the fly without having to create new application packages in SCCM. This is especially useful for applications that are updated quite frequently, such as Java Runtime Environment. This can be done by using the custom script detection method. The following script I wrote will go out and extract the product code from the MSI installer located in the source installation directory.

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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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Learn About Cyber Threats From Both Historical and Operational Perspectives in 15 Apr Webinar

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Learn about the cyber threat from seasoned professionals who have spent years in direct contact with adversaries defending government and corporate systems. This presentation provides facts and observations on the cyber threat in ways that can inform you decision-making and improve your ability to defend. Best practices in the domain of cyber intelligence will be discussed, and recommendations will be made on ways to directly enhance our collective defense.

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Etsy Owes Data Center Efficiency to Facebook’s Open Source VM

Data Center Knowledge

'Etsy reveals how Facebook-born HipHop Virtual Machine helped the company bring significant efficiencies to the data center Read More.

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PowerShell: Application List

Mick's IT Blog

'This script will generate a list of installed applications minus those in the exclusion list text file. I created this script so the help desk could have a concise list of applications that need to be installed post-build. The script excludes all apps that are in the exclusion list, which includes everything in our build. I wrote the script so that it can be executed from SCCM on a per system basis.

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A New Way to Practice and Test Hadoop Skills

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Hortonworks has just announced their first hands-on, performance based certification exam. This new “HDP Certified Developer, ” or HDPCD, exam is designed for individuals who would like the opportunity to prove their Hadoop skills. Instead of multiple choice or true/false questions, the exam consists of tasks executed on a live, three-node Hortonworks Data Platform cluster.

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Fog Computing for Internet of Things Needs Smarter Gateways

Data Center Knowledge

'With the Internet of Things expected to include 26 billion connected units by 2020, data center managers must deploy more forward-looking strategies for meeting the needs of businesses. That means embracing "fog computing" as a way to bridge IoT devices to remote data centers and to process the.

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Cloud Conversations: AWS EFS Elastic File System (Cloud NAS) First Preview Look

Storage IO Blog

'Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced (preview) new Elastic File System (EFS) providing Network File System (NFS) NAS (Network Attached Storage) capabilities for AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances. EFS AWS compliments other AWS storage offerings including Simple Storage Service (S3) along with Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Glacier and Relational Data Services (RDS) among others.

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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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Powershell: Get Default Printer

Mick's IT Blog

'This script will find the default printer of a logged on user and write it to a text file named DefaultPrinter.txt in the %APPDATA% folder. I have this script run as a package in SCCM on a reoccurring weekly basis. This keeps the file up to date in the event a user needs a new machine or a new profile. You can download the file from here: GetDefaultPrinter.ps1 #Declare Global Variables Set-Variable -Name DefaultPrinter -Scope Global -Force cls If ((Test-Path $env:APPDATA"DefaultPrinter.txt") -e

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Informatica (INFA) sold to Permira and Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board for $5.3 billion

CTOvision

'By Charles Hall. CPPIB, Canada''s largest pension fund, teamed with Permira, a European private equity group, to acquire Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA ), the US data software and services company, in the largest leveraged buyout so far this year. The companies will pay $48.75 per share in cash to privatize Informatica, and valued the firm at $5.3 billion.

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The Best Approach to Cloud: Date, Don’t Marry

Data Center Knowledge

'Choosing a cloud solution for your company is a lot like dating: Don''t fall for the first one that comes along and make sure it meets all of your needs. That''s best accomplished by using a multi-cloud framework so you can pick and choose at will. Read More.

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The Plain Text Productivity Experiment

Scott Lowe

'I’m a big fan of plain text-based formats and tools, for a variety of reasons. As a result, I’ve moved almost all of my writing into plain text formats, primarily Markdown (MultiMarkdown, to be specific), and I recently spent a couple of months experimenting to see if a plain text-based productivity system would work for me as well. Here’s what I found.

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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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Constant 50% usage on iPhone running iOS8

Sean Daniel

'I don''t usually publish break/fix stuff here, but I couldn''t find ANYTHING on the Internet that helped me solve this one, and I think I''ve nailed it. So here goes. I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 8.x, I am on the Rogers network in Canada. I was travelling in the US on the AT&T network, and got a carrier update which I mistakenly applied (although all my support calls indicated that this shouldn''t affect anything).

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The Death of Cyber Doom? Not So Fast

CTOvision

'By SeanLawson. For decades, we have heard a lot of talk from American officials, industry experts, and others about the supposed threat of a “cyber 9/11,” “cyber Pearl Harbor,” “cyber Katrina,” or even “cyber Sandy.” In short, we have been warned repeatedly that “ cyber doom ” is coming. Indeed, as recently as this fall, cyber doom was in the news as a result of the cyber attack on Sony.

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US Army Taps IBM’s Government Cloud for Logistics Support

Data Center Knowledge

'Cloud will allow incorporation of new analytics services and mobile capabilities into LOGSA, the Army''s logistics management system Read More.

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Problem vs. Opportunity Mindset

Future of CIO

So it comes down to how one perceives: A 'problem' for one, is an 'opportunity' for the other. We are all familiar with this philosophical reasoning: Every risk (problem) has an opportunity in it, and every opportunity has a risk (problem) in it. Isn't opportunities and problems the same thing only with a perceptive change? Doesn't it come down to how we view the situation - at the time it could be a problem or it could be an opportunity.

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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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How TGI Fridays put mobile efficiency on the menu

Computerworld Vertical IT

In the thin-margined restaurant industry, companies live or die by table turnover time. Yet the process by which most eateries serve their customers is anything but efficient. After initially greeting diners who probably aren't yet ready to order, waiters and waitresses make numerous trips back and forth between the their assigned tables and the point-of-sale (POS) terminal -- where, during a busy shift, their fellow servers will invariably be waiting in line to send orders to the kitchen.

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Accelerated PCAP: An Architecture for Precision Packet Capture and Analysis on High-­?Speed Networks

CTOvision

'By Charles Hall. Are you a system engineer or administrator charged with protecting your network infrastructure from attack? Napatech''s Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can help you to improve on the ability to monitor and react to malicious events that occur within your network. These FPGA-based accelerators are capable of performing high-speed packet capture and replay at speeds from 1 to 100 Gbps, with precise inter-frame gap (IFG) control and high-precision time stamping, allowing

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Taking Your Data Center to Next Level With Lithium-Ion Power

Data Center Knowledge

'It''s been quite some time since Uninterrupted Power Systems (UPS) have undergone a substantial upgrade, but lithium-ion batteries are changing that. Once expensive to use, prices continue to fall for the batteries as the life cycle lengthens to around seven years for UPSes. Read More.

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How to Manage Business Requirements for IT Initiatives

Future of CIO

The requirement management is a good starting point and one of the significant steps in managing IT initiatives effectively to achieve its business value. IT is business, every IT initiative needs to have a well-defined business requirement and well-supported business sponsors. What are the most effective vehicles for understanding business requirements?

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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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Big Data Comes To The Call Center

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Call centers are a great place to start to use your big data tools Image Credit: King County, WA. By now everyone who has the CIO job has heard about “big data” What this is all about is using modern analytical tools to process very large amounts of data in order to identify trends and opportunities for the business that were previously unknown.

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Meet Some Of The Incredible Speakers At The 30 April Synergy Forum: And Save Your Seat

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. It has been my pleasure to have the honor of working on the planning team for the 30 April Synergy Forum. This has been a great opportunity to interact with the DC strategy and technology community and I really look forward to seeing you all at this event. If you have not signed up yet please do so soonest (if you have signed up please review this note for some info on what is to come).

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How Amazon’s New Machine Learning Service Can Help in Data Center Management

Data Center Knowledge

'General-purpose machine-learning service can be used to predict hardware failures, temperature fluctuations, and more Read More.

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Is IT Organization as Responsive as it needs to Be?

Future of CIO

A responsive IT means a lot of things for the digital transformation: speed, innovation, agility, integration, modernization, intelligence, value creation, and maturity, etc. Without a doubt, IT is the most difficult and challenging part of a company due to its change nature. Nowadays, information is the lifeblood of an organization, and technology is more often the innovation driver.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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Building Things That People Like: An Encore

Nutanix

Exactly 4 years ago to this day, I wrote a blog called “Building things that people like”.

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The CTOvision Research Library: References for the enterprise technologist

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The CTOvision Research Library is a repository of research curated by our analysts to provide enterprise technologists a fast way to reference actionable information relevant to your operational decisions. Our analyst curate the research library into categories of Analytics , Big Data , Cloud Computing , Cyber Security , Government , Intelligence , Mobility , and Strategy.

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Tips on Managing Your Vendors

Data Center Knowledge

'A data center is only as good as the humans behind it. How does a data center operator run the selection and management process of outsourced providers? Learn more at this Data Center World session at the conference in April. Read More.

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Strategic Management: How to Do it Right

Future of CIO

Strategic Management is the groundwork for a company’s vision. A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be competitively positioned to derive economic profits. The strategy is the art of designing a way of navigating and effectively utilizing available resources to attain a clearly defined objective. Strategy management, how to do it right?

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.