CTOvision

APRIL 3, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. Messaging is a critical function for any organization. This is especially true for the Military and Intelligence communities, where it is imperative that vital messages reach intended recipients as quickly as possible. The first messaging system was hand-written notes. While functional, these did not provide a timely way to get a message to a recipient quickly over a long distance, and could be intercepted.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 27, 2015

Company completes $170M data center and service center expansion project in Lockport Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 27, 2015

I've worked with some very strong Agile Product Owners, others that needed a lot of help transitioning from BRD centric waterfall product management, and others that have strong backgrounds in other product roles (product strategy, management, or marketing) and are new to agile product development. I've partnered with many successful agile product owners that have launched innovative.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 8, 2015

'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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Eric D. Brown

APRIL 28, 2015

I received a review copy of Humanizing Big Data by Colin Strong a few weeks ago. The subtitle to the book is “Marketing at the meeting of Data, Social Science and Consumer Insight”… that should give you a good feel about the contents of this book. It isn’t a heavy duty data science book…it is targeted more at folks in the marketing world to allow them to better understand the types of data that they may encounter as well as understand how that data might be analyze

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 25, 2015

I woke up this morning to the devastating news about the earthquake in Nepal. Sitting here in California that destruction is literally on the other side of the world but my mind immediately went to thinking about my good friend Jeremy Geelan. See Jeremy and his family have been living in Kathmandu for a while now. His wife, in fact, is the Danish Ambassador to Nepal !

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 21, 2015

'The data center architect supports some of the most critical business functions of an organization. Here''s how the role has evolved with the advent of cloud. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 13, 2015

'The CIO must learn and drive the business, set the strategic direction for IT and proves that he or she can get teams executing to the strategy. I''ve posted many times on how agile practices are key to a CIO''s success because it creates transparency, dives culture change, and is a key element to innovation. IT is All About the Team So yes, strategy is important.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 15, 2015

'Just having big data is not enough, you need to know what to do with it Image Credit: Ian Alexander Martin. CIOs everywhere are being overwhelmed with talk about “big data” This is simply using IT systems and tools to process very large data sets in order to answer questions about how best to run the company. What used to be too big of a task for anyone to attempt has become doable with new tools and techniques allowing us to harness the importance of information technology.

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Eric D. Brown

APRIL 23, 2015

'This won’t surprise many people (at least I hope it doesn’t)…there is a huge difference between “theory” and “practice” I’m an academic AND and practitioner. I have a Doctorate in Information Systems and have worked in aspects of IT / IS for almost 20 years now. Theory is great at preparing people for doing things in the real world, but many times theory is just that…theory.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 14, 2015

'The average length of time in the commercial sector between a network security breach and when the detection of that breach is more than 240 days , according to Gregory Touhill , deputy assistant secretary of Cybersecurity Operations and Programs for the Department of Homeland Security. What could happen to your company during that eight-month period?

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CTOvision

APRIL 28, 2015

We recently had the opportunity to interview the CIA CIO, Doug Wolfe. Doug has been the CIA’s CIO since 2013. In this role he oversees the agency information technology vision and strategic direction. He is also an advisor to the intelligence community CIO and a collaborative leader in the federal technology world. His past tours including serving as deputy director for acquisition, technology and facilities at the office of the director of national intelligence, inventing new sources and method

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 8, 2015

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

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 21, 2015

'Can your SaaS platforms support data and workflow integration or are they data silos in the cloud? I''m a big proponent of SaaS solutions especially when they offer simple user interfaces, configurable workflows and advanced analytics that enable the targeted organizations to be more productive and data driven. I prefer partnering with experienced SaaS providers that can deliver on their.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 22, 2015

'There is gold in other company’s data streams, CIOs just need to know how to find it Image Credit: Tony Oliver. Data, data, data everywhere. Oh, and then there is that security thing. When you have the CIO job today, you have your hands full because of the importance of information technology just trying to stay on top of all of the data that your company is generating.

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Eric D. Brown

APRIL 15, 2015

'I just ran across an article titled “ The CIO balancing act: agility, innovation, cost savings ” over on The Enterprisers Project. If you haven’t stumbled across The Enterprisers Project in the past, make sure to add it to your daily routine (RSS feeds, twitter, etc etc) as there is always some great content over there. In “ The CIO balancing act: agility, innovation, cost savings “, the author writes that the CIO maintain “a delicate balancing act… bet

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 28, 2015

by Kevin L. Jackson Cloud computing seems destined to be the way enterprises will use information technology. The drastic cost reductions and impressive operational improvements make the transition an unstoppable trend. The “What is cloud computing?” question now, however, seems to be morphing into “Where is cloud computing going?” While software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers see their market rocketing upward as the easiest and quickest path for cloud adoption, infrastructure-as-a-service provid

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CTOvision

APRIL 15, 2015

'Who needs to go out for dinner, when you have a tireless master chef waiting at home to prepare a gourmet meal for you, any time, day or night? That''s the premise behind a new invention from Moley Robotics , a tech company based in London. Moley unveiled their new " robochef " prototype on April 14, 2015 at the Hannover Messe technology fair in Germany.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 24, 2015

Company bets on collaboration between dev and ops teams in one of its first major initiatives since going private Read More.

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Mick's IT Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

'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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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 29, 2015

When it comes to analytics projects, somebody has to be driving Image Credit: Leslie Wong. You know, for years and years we’ve talked about trying to align business and IT and yet we never seemed to make much progress. Well I’ve got some good news for you: the arrival of analytics projects where large amounts of business data has to be crunched in order to get the answers that the business needs is driving IT and the rest of the business closer together than ever before.

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Eric D. Brown

APRIL 9, 2015

'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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All Things Distributed

APRIL 3, 2015

'Machine learning is a scientific discipline that explores the construction and study of algorithms that can learn from data. Such algorithms operate by building a model from example inputs and using that to make predictions or decisions, rather than following strictly static program instructions. Machine Learning is playing an increasing important role in many areas of our businesses and our lives.

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CTOvision

APRIL 6, 2015

'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 Knowledge

APRIL 23, 2015

'Data center south of London uses efficient cooling system and supports Open Compute servers Read More.

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Mick's IT Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

'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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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 15, 2015

'Hyperconverged vendor Maxta recently announced a partnership with Cumulus to bring software-defined networking (SDN) to the hyperconverged space. My hope was that Maxta and Cumulus were doing something really new. The hope was something like the Infrastructure Brick approach I’ve.

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Eric D. Brown

APRIL 6, 2015

'Many folks are talking about the ‘digital’ transformation that is happening across many industries and businesses today. These folks mention digital transformation as if its something new or different than any other transformation project that companies have had to undergo through their lifetimes. Last week I read a post titled “ Why most digital transformation projects will fail (and how to make sure yours doesn’t) ” written by Martin Gill, VP and Principal Analy

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

'Today was a big day for the Amazon Web Services teams as a whole range of new services and functionality was delivered to our customers. Here is a brief recap of it: The Amazon Machine Learning service. As I wrote last week machine learning is becoming an increasingly important tool to build advanced data driven applications. At Amazon we have hundreds of teams using machine learning and by making use of the Machine Learning Service we can significantly speed up the time they use to bring their

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CTOvision

APRIL 6, 2015

'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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