CTOvision

APRIL 11, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. This is a follow on to our post on planning your time at the Geoint Symposium. With this post I want to make some technology recommendations that may be helpful to you as you plan out your time at the Geoint Symposium 14-17 Apr. There are so many great firms on the expo floor you cannot possibly spend time with all of them. You really need to approach the floor with a strategy.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 20, 2014

'A major fire at a Samsung data center in Gwacheon, South Korea Sunday morning caused a data outage for users Samsung devices, including smart TVs, phones and tablets. Read More.

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SPF13

APRIL 6, 2014

'I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for the release of MongoDB 2.6. This is the largest driver release in the history of MongoDB, both in terms of code changes as well as in terms of drivers released. Official Drivers for C, C++, C# (.net), Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala were all released with Perl following shortly.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 23, 2014

'Even cloud relationships have to come to an end sometime – are you ready? Image Credit. Since the cloud is a new and shiny thing in the world of IT departments, we are all excited about it because it now has a lot to do with the importance of information technology. Part of having the CIO job is spending your day thinking about how you can move more of the company’s applications into the cloud.

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Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 28, 2014

'I should have written this post 5-10 years ago when I was an expert working with search engines and text data. Better late then never, and hopefully this will help some of you that are starting out looking at solutions to better store, search, and data mine text documents. . . So here are some things not to do (or avoid doing) with unstructured text Big Data: Develop home grown scripts to.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 1, 2014

'The Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (ITAAC) and Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) are honored to team with NGA in hosting the first " Agile Sourcing Environment for Commercial Cloud " brainstorming session, April 23, 2014 at TIA headquarters. This not for profit and free industry event is designed to improve cloud computing standardization and interoperability.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 18, 2014

'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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SPF13

APRIL 6, 2014

'I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for the release of MongoDB 2.6. This is the largest driver release in the history of MongoDB, both in terms of code changes as well as in terms of drivers released. Official Drivers for C, C++, C# (.net), Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala were all released with Perl following shortly.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 2, 2014

'Building a next generation IT department is hard work Image Credit. Yea! The global economy is improving and that means that good things are going to be coming to the IT department because the rest of the company has finally come to realize the importance of information technology. Specifically, since you have the CIO position, it’s going to be time for you to whip the IT team into shape in order to take on all of the new initiatives that the company is going to be preparing to rollout.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 15, 2014

'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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They say a defense can be measured by its weakest link. In your cybersecurity posture, what––or who––is the weakest link? And how can you make them stronger? This webinar will equip you with the resources to search for quality training, implement it, and improve the cyber-behaviors of your workforce. By the end of the hour, you will feel empowered to improve the aspects of your security posture you control the least – the situational awareness and decision-making of your workforce.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

'Last Wednesday, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret) John T. Brennan, Interoperability Clearinghouse (ICH) Executive Director, kicked off the Agile Cloud collaboration. This industry-wide effort is targeted at developing an open and inclusive cloud service brokerage environment capable of rapidly provisioning innovative technologies to the US Government on a fee for service basis.

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CTOvision

APRIL 28, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. For a decade now the cyber security community has been treated to important strategic context coordinated by Verizon in their Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The information in the report can help drive strategic planning for enterprise technologists and members of the enterprise cyber security team and it is well worth a read by any CTO, CIO, CISO and most other members of enterprise technology teams.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 16, 2014

'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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SPF13

APRIL 9, 2014

'Welcome to Steve Francia’s website.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 9, 2014

'Scenario planning is a skill that every CIO must have Image Credit. Risk is a part of every CIO’s standard job description. However, we all find different ways to deal with it. We like to measure risk by measuring uptime, mean time between failures, and other ways that risk can impact the importance of information technology. However, is it possible that we’re missing the most important measurement of all?

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 2, 2014

'One year ago, I completed the controversial post, Please Stop Creating Microsoft Access Databases. It drew an onslaught of comments from those that have been successful developing on this platform and others who struggle with the issues caused by siloed databases. Now, one year later I''ve decided to revisit this topic. Developers Love their Platforms - But Big Data Platforms Are Strategic.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

'The Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (ITAAC) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) are announcing a slate of innovative leaders to serve as facilitators for the upcoming " Agile Sourcing Environment for Commercial Cloud " brainstorming session being held in Alexandria, VA on April 23, 2014. Enjoying a great response thus far, industry participants include Boeing, Oracle, Google,SAP, Leidos and Capgemini.

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CTOvision

APRIL 11, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Threats to our information are not only from malware or brute force hacks or social engineering. Criminals are motivated to look for every advantage. Sometimes we read about very sophisticated attacks against hardware that require advanced engineering. But attacks don’t really have to be sophisticated to be successful. Two relatively easy to execute attacks were recently highlighted by the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 28, 2014

'Facebook hasn''t even finished its first massive data center building in Altoona, Iowa. But the social networking company is ready to begin construction on a second 476,000 square foot building. Read More.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2014

'We launched Elastic Beanstalk in 2011 with support for Java web applications and Tomcat 6 in one region, and we''ve seen the service grow to 6 container types (Java/Tomcat, PHP, Ruby, Python,NET, and Node.js) supported in 8 AWS regions around the world. The Elastic Beanstalk team spends a lot of time talking to AWS Developers, and in the last few months they''ve noticed a common theme in those conversations: developers tell us they''re interested in Docker , and ask if we are thinking about mak

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 6, 2014

'Can security be the catalyst for the software defined data center (SDDC)? Security may be one of the one areas of information technology that’s easy to convey to non-IT executives. The fallout from data breaches such as the one at Target highlight the enormous cost associated with failed security. These events create opportunities for security […].

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

'Solid State Hybrid Disks (SSHD) are the successors to previous generation Hybrid Hard Disk Drives (HHDD) that I have used for several years (you can read more about them here, and here). While it would be nice to simply have SSD for everything, there are also economic budget realities to be dealt with. Keep in mind that a bit of nand flash SSD cache in the right location for a given purpose can go a long way which is the case with SSHDs.

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CTOvision

APRIL 27, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Everyone with any history in or around government has stories they can tell about federal government procurements. It really is a different beast. There are many reasons why. Perhaps the first 535 reasons are the 535 voting members of the US Congress that have the funding, oversight and legislative powers for how government works. Name another organization in the world that has a board of directors with 535 voting members?

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CTOvision

APRIL 24, 2014

'By HudsonHollister. Editor’s note: Hudson Hollister is the executive director of the data transparency coalition. His insightful update below covers issues of interests to technologists in and out of government. -bg. Sweeping change and open data are dawning for U.S. federal spending. On Thursday 10 April 2014 the U.S. Senate passed the DATA Act — unanimously.

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CTOvision

APRIL 20, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. “ R ” is a freely available language for interacting with your computer that is designed for a wide variety of functions. It is most frequently associated with statistical computing and graphics. R runs on a wide variety of systems, including Mac, Windows, Linux and Unix. Every analyst who deals with data should have a copy of R and be familiar with it.

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CTOvision

APRIL 4, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Salesforce.com Announces New Industries Strategy. BOSTON, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM ), the world’s #1 CRM platform, today announced a new industries strategy aimed at accelerating the company’s growth and transforming the way companies across key industries connect with their customers.

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CTOvision

APRIL 10, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Save the date! The 2014 Analytics Forum will be held 30 July in Reston VA. This event is focused on analytical insights for mission impact. The Analytics Forum is co-sponsored by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) and the Analyst One website. The forum is the premier Big Data analytics event for mission-focused government and business analysts and executives.

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CTOvision

APRIL 10, 2014

'By SeanLawson. This week we learned of two new FAA actions against domestic operators of what are popularly called “drones” and what the FAA calls “unmanned aircraft systems” (UAS). In one case, the FAA has claimed that it is illegal for volunteers to use radio controlled model aircraft to search for missing persons. In the other, an agency spokeswoman advised a news outlet against publishing donated video taken by a model aircraft, implying that the agency could take legal action against the n

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CTOvision

APRIL 26, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. At this link and embedded below is a video from Samsung which captures the new features of Samsung’s well engineered approach to enhancing mobile security. Look for my cameo appearance at 11:55 where say something I believe, but which must be totally obvious to you good readers. The real reason to watch is to get an overview of their well engineered approach and how it has evolved over time to the benefit of enterprise users.

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CTOvision

APRIL 2, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. On the Crimean Peninsula, Russia writes the rules because they control the territory. They control who goes in and who goes out. Anyone who wants access to the Crimea can only do so if Russia allows it. You might have a treaty that says it is not supposed to be that way, but the fact is, Russia is in charge because they control all access.

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