CTOvision

JANUARY 4, 2016

Bob Gourley. An article posted in the Ukrainian news services TSN reported that massive outages suffered in the country were caused by highly destructive malware that infected at least three regional power authorities in Ukraine. The site reported that the only way to restore power was to return to manual methods, something that may be hard to do in other nations (including the U.S.).

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 19, 2016

Of particular concern is the supposition that legitimate cloud file hosting services such as Dropbox, Box, and Stream Nation, are at risk of being used as control servers in upcoming cyber espionage campaigns. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 24, 2016

I am now one year into my third CIO role where digital transformation was a top priority. It's hard enough to jump into an organization as a new CIO and make an impact in year one and much harder to either lead or be a team member in a transformation program. Bu that's exactly what I've been tasked to do, and my last several posts come from insights across all three organizations.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 28, 2016

Over my career, I’ve hired over 50 direct reports and been involved in the hiring process for over 150 other people. For the most part, all of these hires ended up being good people and great employees. Sure, there were a couple bad hires in there but I’d like to think my track record is pretty good mostly because I approached each interview as a conversation rather than a list of questions.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 6, 2016

Software Defined Networking is going to change everything for CIOs Image Credit: Cisco. Guess what CIO: there is a revolution that is just starting in the world of computer networking. Sure, you know about the importance of information technology but are you going to be ready for this? For the longest time, we’ve all been building our networks in pretty much the same way: we go to a big equipment vendor such as Cisco, Juniper, HP, IBM, etc. and buy a bunch of boxes.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

This week I encountered one of the most awful bugs. After spending hours finding it and then more hours understanding what was happening I felt it was my responsibility to share this knowledge so hopefully others may benefit from my misfortune. The complete story involves multiple libraries and many different layers of code and abstraction which made this bug very hard to diagnose.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 27, 2016

In the words of Yogi Berra, “If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.” These are words to live by when planning beyond your migration. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 5, 2016

At the end of last year, I asked a fundamentally simple question that's difficult to answer, Should You Try Calculating ROI on Digital Transformation. My answer is yes, but the question is when, to what level of investment, and to what extent. It's a difficult issue for those driving transformation because the first questions normally asked by seasoned business executives are around costs and.

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The Investing Edge

JANUARY 25, 2016

We’d like to recognize the many successes and accomplishments our portfolio companies achieved in 2015. From impressive rounds of funding to key acquisitions, these companies continue to be leaders in their sectors. While we won’t attempt to capture them all, below are some representative highlights: CloudLock , a leading cloud cybersecurity and CASB provider, had a rewarding year filled with impressive rankings and revenue growth.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 27, 2016

Twitter has a problem on their hands and they think that they need a Chief Safety Officer Image Credit: Twitter. As more and more companies create online communities for our customers to interact with us and each other in, CIOs are starting to see a need for a new type of employee. In any online community, there are a lot of things that can happen. I can’t quite explain why some people behave like they do, but the anonymity of being online and not having to confront people face-to-face see

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 20, 2016

Every so often I run across a story that leaves me in awe. A story out of Scotland about a photography who has spent years trying to make the ‘perfect’ picture is one of those stories. In “ A Perfect Photo of a Kingfisher, 720K Pictures in the Making “, the story of Alan McFadyen’s attempt to capture the ‘perfect’ photo of a kingfisher diving a mirror-like water surface is described.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 26, 2016

Bob Gourley. If you are an enterprise technologist or if you love thinking about the incredible future we can build for ourselves you no doubt already track the very interesting Marc Andreessen. His open sharing of views and context via his blog , on YouTube and his Twitter Feed are a great source of information for those seeking insights into the emerging tech scene and we recommend following him there for continuous context.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 20, 2016

Here are the biggest trends and considerations going into 2016 around cloud, your data center, and new IT strategies Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 10, 2016

You are not going to transform overnight by developing a strategy in PowerPoint and communicating a master plan. You're going to have to take baby steps to get there. I'm showing a memorable scene from a classic movie. Bob's got issues, and psych Leo Marvin introduces him to the baby step framework. Baby steps to the door, out the office and into the elevator for the very first time.

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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

JANUARY 26, 2016

Security and privacy debates are highly nuanced, allowing for much interpretation, balancing acts and differences of opinion. For that reason, I try and be tolerant of a wide range of views on the subject. Every so often, though, some executive says something so divorced from logic and reality that silence is not an option. Enter AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and his attack on Apple's encryption efforts.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 20, 2016

Even gold mines need an IT infrastructure Image Credit: Nicolas Emmanuel-Emile. As the person with the CIO job, you have a challenging job. It is your responsibility to understand that importance of information technology and to keep watch over your IT department as it works to service the rest of the company. If there is an issue, then you deal with it.

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Mick's IT Blog

JANUARY 28, 2016

NOTE: I used Sapien's PowerStudio to write this script that significantly simplified the process! I have wrestled with the issue of encrypting a system using Bitlocker during a build. The issue I have had is that not all of the process can be automated. The steps of turning on the TPM, and activating it can be automated. The portion where the TPM is cleared is a forced, manual process.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2016

Bob Gourley. Shivon Zilis is an investor at Bloomberg Beta , a very interesting early stage venture capital fund. I knew I would like Bloomberg Beta when I saw how they do their website. It is smart and reflects very well on their leadership team: They decided to leverage GitHub for their site. Doing so puts them one step closer to the creators that a VC in their space needs to know and is a great way to step out in a trust-based relationship.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 6, 2016

We are seeing companies like Akamai and cable companies, even Netflix, wanting to have their servers really close to the edge so latency is reduced. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 1, 2016

In case you missed my end of year countdown, here is the top 5 posts of 2015 on Social, Agile, and Transformation. You can review the longer list and a full year recap on my last post, 2015 Digital Transformation Formula := Agile + DevOps + Data Science = Culture Changes. Happy 2016 to all my readers. More to come this year on all these topics and maybe a couple of more!

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. Today, I’m happy to announce that the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 13, 2016

CIOs know that they need to be strategic, but where is the time? Image Credit: Thomas Hawk. Pick up any IT trade journal and you’ll probably find an article that is telling CIOs that because of the importance of information technology they need to get a seat at the company’s planning table. In order to do this, they need to become more strategic.

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Mick's IT Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

There are updates that have to be installed after the OS has been installed.Net Framework is an example. When I am building a reference image, I cannot inject the updates as packages to.Net Framework as it is not installed until after the OS has been installed. There have also been cases where an MSU could not be injected before the OS was installed.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2016

Katie Kennedy. Wondering where supercomputing is heading in 2016? Here are some well informed assessments brought to you by Cray. New Processor Technologies. The leader of this technology is currently Intel, with their next generation Xeon Phi coprocessor, which is a hybrid between an accelerator and general purpose processor. This innovative design combines many-core architect with general purpose productivity.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 4, 2016

Clouds will become places where applications and data converge for greater efficiency… but places of convergence are valuable targets for criminals Read More.

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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

JANUARY 12, 2016

Small businesses that use Kronos workforce-management software will soon be able to tap familiar Google tools in their HR efforts thanks to a new integration project now under way. Kronos and Google have teamed up to integrate Google Apps for Work with the Kronos Workforce Ready cloud suite for small and midsize businesses, Kronos announced Tuesday, giving SMBs new ability to engage office employees and remote workers via familiar Google Apps and mobile devices.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 4, 2016

According to a study, 82 percent of federal IT professional respondents reported that they were using the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) cybersecurity framework to improve their security stance. The survey also demonstrated that the document is being used as a stepping stone to a more secure government. When I first read this, my immediate reaction was a resounding, “So what!

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Welcome to Technology Short Take #60. As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. I hope something I’ve included here will be helpful—enjoy! Networking. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers.

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Mick's IT Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

In 2014, I published this blog entry that configured the BIOS during a build process. It used the Dell Command | Configure utility. At the time, I was in a squeeze to get the new build created along with getting all new GPOs and upgrading to a new document management system at the same time. I now have had some time to dig in and finally solved through Henk Hoogendoorn's blog on how to set the BIOS settings pre-image.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2016

Bob Gourley. Our list of Truly Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools You Can Use Today was out of date the minute we published it. We knew that would happen and are absolutely thrilled when we discover new capabilities that belong on this list. One we just learned about is EverLaw, provider of perhaps the world's most advanced litigation platform, designed to be easy to use and programmed to leverage the most powerful technologies available, including cloud computing, mobile solutions and yes, a

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