CTOvision

JANUARY 9, 2015

'By Chris Mellon. The good news for the moment is that the North Korean attack on Sony Pictures is in the headlines and has the nation discussing cyber security issues. The bad news is that neither the press nor the government is placing the Sony attack in context. Considering the Sony case in isolation is equivalent to looking at a single piece on a chessboard, hardly an effective way to evaluate our predicament or assess what we need to do to prevent further losses.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 22, 2015

'IT facilities design is being driven by increased demand for compute and storage, according to James Cuff, Assistant Dean for Research Computing in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 19, 2015

'I learned much about what I know today about systems operations from Bill, a head of network engineering that I hired for my SaaS company about fifteen years ago. We already built separate systems for managing dev and test from production, matured source code controls, and implemented some automation around testing and deployment. What Bill taught me is that we needed to separate developers.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 28, 2015

'In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster. This has generally worked well for those companies that have planned and tested their DR systems and plans appropriately. In recent years organizations have been looking for more robust solutions for disaster recovery than storing their data in separate data centers.

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CIO Musings

JANUARY 1, 2015

'Five New Years Tech Resolutions New Years is a great time for reflection. A new start. A new set of opportunities. A time to do things differently. While you are cleaning out your closets and figuring out which gym to join, spend some time planning how you can do some new great things in your technology life. Here are five places to start. Mobile Security - Smartphones are amazingly easy to lose, and it happens all the time.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 28, 2015

'Outsourcing rules are changing and you need to be aware of these changes Image Credit: Mark Hillary. Back in the golden days of outsourcing, CIOs could just pick up the phone, get in contact with the head of their outsourcing contractor in India or China, and scale their team up or down as conditions required. However, times have changed and now that everyone is starting to understand the importance of information technology, the world of outsourcing is getting more complicated.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 15, 2015

'Colocation provider Switch has unveiled plans for its largest SUPERNAP project yet, a $1 billion, 3 million square foot data center campus on 1,000 acres of land near Reno, Nevada. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 12, 2015

'I''ve seen many organizations run into difficulty defining governance and best practices managing the lifecycle of BI dashboards. Perhaps you have deployed a self service BI program - data scientists have access to tools, IT has deployed severs to publish completed dashboards, and employees are anxious to leverage visualizations and become more data driven.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 29, 2015

'Like the data center in most organizations, IT groups have been undergoing a transformation over the last few years. IT leaders have constantly been on the lookout for new systems, technologies, people and skills to meet the ‘do more with less’ mantra while continuing to build out the capabilities required of their teams. Thankfully, CIO’s have had the good fortune that cloud computing and virtualization were available to help transform IT operations and the data center.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 10, 2015

'In the last two years, IT security breaches have hit the White House, the State Department, the top federal intelligence agency, the largest American bank, the top hospital operator, energy companies, retailers and even the Postal Service. Melvin Greer, Senior Fellow and Chief Strategist Lockheed Martin , and author of numerous publications will detail the new cloud computing threat landscape.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 21, 2015

'Offshoring As We’ve Known It May Be Dead Image Credit: Vitor Lima. Once upon a time, offshoring was the answer to every CIOs dreams. It offered a great way to significantly grow the IT department while at the same time reducing the total costs of running the department. What make it even better was that somebody else had to deal with the real-world issues of managing people and the person with the CIO job could just focus on results.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”. ? Margaret Mead. Editor''s note: I''ve been in the position to observe both NGA and DigitalGlobe as organizations and have also been honored to meet both the two leaders referenced in this release, and I consider their work to be proof yet again that small teams of committed people can work wonders in the world.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 20, 2015

'Widely known for its Linux-based operating system, the company spent 2014 positioning itself as a major player in the OpenStack space Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 7, 2015

'It''s that time of year when the analysts and media predict the year to come in technology. If you missed some of these prediction, see Gil Press'' recap of Forrester''s, Gartner''s and IDC''s predictions. This year, I thought I would take a stab at some predictions and what may be important to CIOs in 2015. I''m not talking IoT everywhere, even bigger Big Data, and other big or bold predictions -.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 30, 2015

'I’ve written a bit about the agile data center lately. I’ve previously defined the agile data center as something that “allows organizations to efficiently and effectively add, remove and change services at the speed of the business, not the speed of technology.”. I still stand by that definition but I wanted to expand on it a bit. Agility does allow organizations to ‘add, remove and changes services’ quickly and easily.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

'by Kevin L.Jackson With all the news these days about cyberterrorism and hacking the cloud may seem like the last place you would want to put your precious information. Pew Research has even suggested that cyber-attacks are likely to increase. Some 61% of over 1600 security expert respondents to a recent survey said “yes” that a major attack causing widespread harm would occur by 2025 , according to the Pew Research study.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 14, 2015

'Even the best laid plans can run into a stall if you don’t plan correctly Image Credit: roger g1. Every CIO has heard about the Cloud by now – computing services provided by a vendor that your company can lease and access via the Internet. All of the articles sure seem to indicate that moving enterprise applications into the cloud makes good economic sense and can enhance the importance of information technology to the company.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. We have previously reported on the great, community coordinated and extensively vetted work on cyber risks and governance by organizations like The Institute of Internal Auditors ( IIA ), The Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA ),The Internet Security Alliance ( ISA ), and The National Association of Corporate Directors ( NACD ).

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 2, 2015

'With the arrival of a new year, organizations are making plans to address the explosion of enterprise data in 2015, writes Ron Vokoun of JE Dunn Construction. A big question is how those plans will differ from data center operations in 2014. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 1, 2015

'Thanks to all my readers, tweeters, and other supporters of Social, Agile and Transformation! . Here are my top posts of 2014 based on page views. My top posts on the Internet of Things, Big Data, Self Service BI, and CIO/CRM relationships made the list. You can also dive into some of my other posts on 2014 Big Data Posts - Self Service BI, Agile Data Management Practices, and Killing Data.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 26, 2015

'Last week I was asked whether there were any ‘secrets’ that companies can follow to ensure success with big data. My short answer was “Nope.” My longer answer was something along the lines of “there aren’t any secrets, just lots of work and a little bit of luck.’ Most folks don’t like to hear answers like that.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 12, 2015

'by Jodi Kohut ITIL (formerlyknown as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library) has been the best management practices framework of choice for world class IT Operations organizations. The 5 stage framework: Service Strategy, Design, Transition, Operation, and Continual Service improvement allows for structured processes that support Enterprise Architecture, Service Delivery, and Security initiatives.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 7, 2015

'Orange County’s IT department had a problem because nobody knew what they did Image Credit: Orange County Archives. Joel Manfredo was the CTO of Orange County, California a while ago. When he first came into office, he discovered what most CIOs discover when they start their job: he had a lot of problems on his hands that had nothing to do with the importance of information technology.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2015

'By Allen Bonde. Editor''s note: Allen Bonde, of embedded analytics leader Actuate (now a subsidiary of OpenText), believes that the opportunities around Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables are about to change our world – and that of business applications. - bg. There are officially now more mobile devices in the world than people – the number crossed over in 2014 somewhere around 7.19 billion mark.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 9, 2015

'Construction workers evacuate without incident; no cause reported Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 26, 2015

'An agile development team is humming along, maturing its practice, putting out regularly scheduled application releases, improving quality, and making business users happy. Then, something happens. Maybe the infrastructure needs an upgrade or needs to scale. Maybe there is a difficult to diagnose performance issue. Or maybe, the business and development teams are looking to deploy a new.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 8, 2015

'I just read “ The Four Malfunctions of a CIO ” by Joe Scherrer and wanted to expand a but on what Joe writes about. Before I do that, let me share the ‘four malfunctions’ that Joe highlights. They are: Not knowing yourself. Not communicating well. Inability to communicate the business value of IT. Not being organized. These are definite malfunctions but they are ‘fixable’ Joe provides some good advice on how to go about resolving these particular malfuncti

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 12, 2015

'Did you know that. Goldman Sachs recognized Bangladesh as one of the Next Eleven (N-11) - a list of eleven countries having strong potential for becoming the world''s largest economies along with BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China)? JP Morgan named Bangladesh as one of the `Frontier Five’ (along with Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kenya and Nigeria), a group of selected emerging countries having promising macroeconomic performance and demographic trends?

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 7, 2015

'Orange County’s IT department had a problem because nobody knew what they did Image Credit: Orange County Archives. Joel Manfredo was the CTO of Orange County, California a while ago. When he first came into office, he discovered what most CIOs discover when they start their job: he had a lot of problems on his hands that had nothing to do with the importance of information technology.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 8, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. Intel was a keynote at CES 2015. This video gives you a glance into the future. Technology is reaching a point where very little human interaction is needed. No longer will you need to find your keys to get into your house, or physically touch your computer to give it commands. Watch The Verge video of Intel’s Keynote here. Related articles.

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