CTOvision

AUGUST 21, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias manifesting in unskilled individuals suffering from illusory superiority , mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude (from Wikipedia ). . The phenomenon was first tested in a series of experiments published in 1999 by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of the Department of Psychology, Cornell University.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 27, 2014

'In the ultimate manifestation of the "server hugger" who wants to be close to their equipment, hobbyists and IT professionals have set up data centers in their home, creating server rooms in garages, basements and home offices. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 18, 2014

'I was surprised this morning to see an article about the "janitorial" work data scientists have to perform to be able to find "nuggets" in big data. Actually, my only surprise is that the story is in the NY Times and that they are covering the least glamorous side of the "sexiest" job. Why is data so messy? Let''s start with the past. The history of data science starts with complicated.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 27, 2014

'CIOs need to prepare for the day that traditional IT comes to the end of the line Image Credit. The era of IT as we’ve come to know it is coming to an end. The IT department functions that have gotten us this far are now coming to an end. Keeping the company’s email systems up and running, implementing an big ERP project, and securing the corporate network from the bad guys is no longer what the company needs us to do for them.

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Eric D. Brown

AUGUST 21, 2014

'How would you feel if you got a letter in the mail from your insurance company telling you that your insurance rates have increased due to your social media activity? Maybe they noticed an increase in your conversations about speeding or smoking or something even much more dangerous. How would you feel about getting a letter from your insurance company telling you your rates have decreased due to your social media activity falling into line with other ‘safety’ conscious customers?

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 13, 2014

'A recent article Inc.com article claimed that the percentage of U.S. small businesses using cloud computing is expected to more than double during the next six years, from 37 percent to nearly 80 percent ( [link] ). This forecast was gleaned from a just released Emergent Research and Intuit study. This statement is also very scary in that it also highlights the growing importance of the cybersecurity threat to the nations economic livelihood.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 13, 2014

'Many service providers experience outages, causing downtime for hosting firms and customer websites. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 5, 2014

'Sometime ago I saw a question posted on a social media site, "Why is Agile hard to adopt?" My initial gut response was surprise. The basic practices of agile are relatively straightforward, so what''s hard? Driving an agile culture, or getting an organization to "operate with agility", yes, that''s not trivial and it takes time for teams and individuals to "think agile".

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 15, 2014

'It turns out that CIOs can transform the IT department into a revenue generator Image Credit: Joe+Jeanette Archie. One of the biggest challenges that the person with the CIO job has is that the department that they are responsible for is more often than not viewed as being a cost center. What this means is that the IT department spends and spends and spends and never seems to actually bring in any money.

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Eric D. Brown

AUGUST 14, 2014

'I help companies use big data to work better. I love what I do and I love seeing companies and people succeed with big data. That said, I’ve seen my fair share of companies (and people) lose with big data too. Most of these ‘losses’ aren’t due to bad data or poor usage of analytical tools. Most of these losses can be traced to a few simple decisions that were made when a big data initiative was being planned.

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

'GovCloud Network is proud to announce that we have teamed with Tech Equity Ltd to deliver cloud education and training on a global basis. With this partnership, GovCloud Network will also add the Cloud Clinique Online Training and Cloud Computing Best Practices program to it''s list of services. CloudClinique is an online cloud certification platform that contains over 7,500 cloud best practice concepts across 18 separate domains.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 21, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. We have previously written about Wayin (I am proud to be one of their advisors). Their capabilities continue to evolve to enable organizations to continually improve how social media is used to both understand and engage. Wayin’s success in the marketplace has centered around sensemaking over social data in ways that can improve the value delivered to consumers and clients.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 5, 2014

'Switch''s SuperNAP 8 data center has now earned Tier IV Gold certification for Operational Sustainability from the Uptime Institute, recognizing its best practices as well as facility design. Read More.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 1, 2014

'In this post, I’m going to provide a very quick introduction to CoreOS. CoreOS, in case you haven’t heard of it, is a highly streamlined Linux distribution designed with containers, massive server deployments, and distributed systems/applications in mind. CoreOS is built around a number of key concepts/technologies: The OS is updated as a whole, not package-by-package.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 6, 2014

'The office is where a CIO must do the best job of communicating Image Credit. In the 21st Century, all business seems to be done globally. However, in order for the person with the CIO job to be effective, you are going to have to be able to communicate in the old fashion way – face to face. What this means is that you will need to master the art of office communications as yet another way to capture the importance of information technology.

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Eric D. Brown

AUGUST 19, 2014

'Welcome to the sexy world of big data. A world in which data scientists make bold predictions about the future of business. They make millions of dollars and spend their days jet-setting around the world answering the call of ‘big data’ So…maybe it really isn’t all that sexy. Data scientists might make decent money but most aren’t flying around the world “jet-setting” Most data scientists are sitting in a room somewhere staring at their computer screens

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 5, 2014

'Veterans 360 will be attending the Gartner Catalyst Conference. They are also sponsoring the attendance of active duty service members that are currently in the US military and serving in an IT related position. If you are in such a technology role and are interested in attending this “must-attend” technology conference to learn strategies on how to leverage mobile, cloud, and big data.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 27, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. FedCyber is an annual cybersecurity event hosted by Matt Devost and Bob Gourley that brings together several hundred attendees to advance the dialogue on critical enterprise and federal government challenges. This event us unique in the DC ecosystem. We are focused on enabling people who make a difference in things cyber. We serve the community of practitioners who really get things done.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 26, 2014

'Columbus Business First has uncovered a massive Amazon project in Central Ohio. Amazon''s hosting subsidiary Vadata has filed for a tax credit in Central Ohio for a project estimated at $1.1 billion. Read More.

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The Investing Edge

AUGUST 26, 2014

'Our last BYOD Index in March 2013 might have represented the apex of BYOD hype. Back then, BYOD or “Bring your Own Device” mentions across social channels reached about 2,600 per day, with 80,000 mentions during the entire month. While BYOD wasn’t a new concept in March 2013, it was still a hot industry topic as even some of the more traditional and inflexible organizations were beginning to at least consider allowing the use of employee-owned devices for business purposes.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 13, 2014

When you are hiring, make sure that you hire the right people… Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job, one of your most important jobs is to hire the right team to help you run the IT department. The importance of information technology is understood by CIOs, but the importance of the hiring process all too often is not. CIOs will often try to perform this job based on their “gut feel” What we all need to understand is that hiring the right people is a process.

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Eric D. Brown

AUGUST 5, 2014

'Data and data analytics have been an important part of organizations for many years. Companies have had data warehouses for as long as I can remember. Those data warehouses were generally well designed and well managed and was the final destination of most of an company’s structured data. Using the data stored within these warehouses, IT professionals and a select few data or business analysts could generate reports and graphs for the organization to manage the business.

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Mick's IT Blog

AUGUST 22, 2014

'After much research and troubleshooting, here is how to enable bitlocker on a Dell system, including clearing the TPM. The documentation by Dell , Trusted Computing Group , and advice from this thread and this one say that it must be done with physical presence through the BIOS screen. There is a way to do this without having to go through the BIOS.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 28, 2014

'By AdamElkus. Over at Wired , a headline blares “Artificial Intelligence Is Now Telling Doctors How To Treat You.” Sounds unique, novel, and even scary. Those AIs are replacing humans, to the point where even the detailed knowledge of the physician is superseded by a Dr. HAL! The article talks about Modernizing Medicine database and IBM’s Watson supercomputer.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 12, 2014

'FASTER cable system will extend from U.S. west coast hubs to two locations in Japan. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 28, 2014

'Without even debating, I again found myself on the losing end of an argument with VMware’s Martin Casado. In our first conversation over a year ago, he explained to me why network virtualization and specifically NSX, which hadn’t been released.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2014

'This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, CA. (Well, it’s a “semi-liveblog”; I’ll post this immediately after the keynote session wraps up.) As in previous years, the keynote is being held in the massive space in Moscone North, and this year—like previous years—it looks like there is quite a crowd gathered here this morning.

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The Investing Edge

AUGUST 6, 2014

'We’re very pleased to offer our congratulations to Bizo on its recent acquisition by LinkedIn. We hold Bizo’s management team and its founder Russ Glass in highest regard. They built a strong, thriving company in a short timeframe and with limited capital. Bizo has changed the game for B2B marketers with technology that helps identify, reach, and target prospects with relevant content.

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Mick's IT Blog

AUGUST 5, 2014

'I know there have been a lot of blogs out here showing how to move a computer to an OU, but I have taken a different approach. This is a good process for a small to mid-size company that doesn''t have a lot of OUs to move machines to during a build. If it is a company the size of HCA, Dell, GM, etc, this isn''t a good process because they likely have hundreds of OUs and you would be creating hundreds of PowerShell scripts.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 18, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Enterprises everywhere have been seeking improved ways to make use of their data. Federal agencies have in many ways been on the cutting edge of community efforts at big data, with most all agencies either executing on a comprehensive big data strategy or empowering technologist to explore and prove out possible solutions so a strategy can be developed.

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