December, 2015

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Lights-Out Manufacturing: Future Fantasy or Good Business?

CTOvision

Editor's note: We noticed this article in Autodesk's Line//Shape//Space and requested their permission to repost it here. Line//Shape//Space is a site dedicated to inspiring designers and creators. -bg. “Naturally, Man should want to stand on his own two feet … but how can he when his own machines cut the ground out from under him?”. So states the teaser for Philip K.

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There’s Already a Facebook Data Center in Asia

Data Center Knowledge

Company leases wholesale space in Singapore, a key regional interconnection hub Read More.

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Digital Transformation – Are CEO’s and CIO’s aligned?

Eric D. Brown

I just read “ Digital transformation will shape 2016 ” over on CIO.com and was a a passage caught my eye. Before I give you the passage, let me put the sentence into context. The CIO article is discussing a recent IDC report titled ‘ IDC FutureScape: Worldside CIO Agenda 2016 Predictions.’ This report provides some predictions on what the CIO and IT will be focused on for the coming year(s).

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Should You Try Calculating ROI on Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

If it is digital transformation you are seeking, you're probably not going to see the results in the quarter after you complete your first major milestone. Digital, technology organizations have adapted to agile practices in order to make incremental improvements to the products and processes they support. Product managers have adapted to release Minimally Viable Products and capture customer.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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What 3 Questions Should CIOs Be Asking?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs become better by asking the right questions Image Credit: Tom. As a CIO we are always searching for ways that we can better communicate the importance of information technology in order to improve ourselves, our IT shop, and, of course, our company. Exactly how go about doing this is one of life’s greatest mysteries. It turns out that each and every one of us has the skills that it takes to make this kind of improvement happen.

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Why cloud changes everything

Cloud Musings

How is cloud computing bringing society and its ideas closer together? This got me thinking. Last week the President of the United States started following me on Twitter. Now I realize that it’s not really President Obama on the other side of that virtual table, but the event brought to mind the Six Degree of Separation concept. In case you don’t remember, this theory states that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world.

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Switch CEO: Michigan Data Center Build is a Go

Data Center Knowledge

State legislature passes data center tax breaks, Vegas firm greenlights Steelcase Pyramid build Read More.

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Innovation and the CIO – Survey Results

Eric D. Brown

Michael Krigsman just published a piece titled “ What do business people think of their CIO? ” that shares some output of a research report put out by Tech Pro Research regarding the perception of the CIO within the business, including some results related to innovation and the CIO. I’ll leave you to go read Michael’s write-up on the subject…he does a good job pointing out the highlights.

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2015 Digital Transformation Formula := Agile + DevOps + Data Science -> Culture Changes

Social, Agile and Transformation

I covered several topics this year that all relate to efforts CIO, IT Leaders, developers, and engineers should consider in transforming "IT" and leading the business through a digital transformation. On the engineering front, transformation requires more collaborative and agile practices, so I completed a number of posts on Agile and introduced several posts on DevOps.

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Do We Really Need To Encrypt Our Customer Data?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Just how secure do we need to keep our data? Image Credit: Michelangelo Carrieri. Guess what: there’s been another hacker break in. This time it happened at the big U.S. healthcare provider Anthem. Nobody’s quite sure how big of a breech it was, but initial guesses are saying that tens of millions of customer records may have been copied by hackers.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Automating the Creation of Software Update Groups in SCCM

Mick's IT Blog

I have been working on automating the tasks of deploying Windows updates each month. You may think why is there a need for this when SCCM has the Automatic Deployment Rules. Some companies have to review the updates before hand if they have applications that are vulnerable to breaking from windows updates. This script is the first of a series of steps to achieve this task.

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SpaceX Makes History By Successfully Proving Real Space Rockets Can Be Reused: Lands A Giant Falcon 9 Rocket For The First Time

CTOvision

The video at this link and embedded below captures a historic first for humanity. Thanks to SpaceX and the many incredible engineers, planners, thinkers and leaders there, they have successfully proven that real space rockets, the kind that lift heavy payloads into working orbits, can now be safely returned to earth. The biggest cost of launch is the engine in the rocket, and these engines can be refurbished and reused, meaning the cost of space launch can be made dramatically lower.

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Hot Data Center Startup Vapor IO Raises First Round of Funding

Data Center Knowledge

Goldman Sachs and Austin’s VC superstar AVX invest undisclosed amount Read More.

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OS X El Capitan: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Security

This comprehensive guide includes everything you need to know about Apple's OS X El Capitan, including features, requirements, upgrade options, software updates, and more.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Teradata: Embrace the Power of PaaS

Cloud Musings

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has always been the unappreciated sibling of the cloud computing service model trio. Existing in the dark shadow of the most widely adopted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and foundationally powerful Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), the third service model is often misunderstood and widely ignored. PaaS provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage web applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure.

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The HSBC CIO And The Money Laundering Problem

The Accidental Successful CIO

HSBC has a money laundering problem that they are trying to solve Image Credit: Christian Senger. The person with the CIO job has a lot to do in the best of circumstances. When your company has been accused of aiding in aiding in the laundering of US$881M and has had to pay a US$1.9B fine, things just got a whole lot tougher and the importance of information technology doesn’t matter as much.

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Microsoft Office Updater

Mick's IT Blog

One of the things that has annoyed me in the past is having to keep the Microsoft Office Updates folder up-to-date with the latest.MSP files. The reason I bother with keeping the Updates folder up-to-date is because it speeds up the process of building a golden image, which in my environment, Office is installed during that phase. To automate this process, I created an automatic deployment rule in SCCM that keeps the Microsoft Office software update group up-to-date with the latest Office update

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Olly, A Robot Assistant with Personality

CTOvision

I think it is safe to say that many people would like to have a C3PO in their lives, I know I would. Today, not in a time long ago, there is a robot called Olly. Emotech, a London-based startup, is behind the creation of Olly, a voice-controlled robot assistant, kind of like Amazon Echo, but this one emulates a human personality. . The idea behind Olly is that it will be doing some auto piloting of individual's lifestyle needs, as it gets to know it's user better and their habits.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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The Problem of Inefficient Cooling in Smaller Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

While web-scale operators build the most efficient data centers, they are a tiny fraction of the industry’s overall energy consumption Read More.

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A CIO’s Christmas List

A CIO's Voice

2015 has been another great year. I have tried to be really good by being the best CIO I can. So Santa, this year I would like the following: IT Value Proposition to the Business. IT Cost Reduction. Tickets to the opening of Star Wars The Force Awakens. My local multiplex has already been sold out and it is only December 15. A drone. Every CIO should have one.

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Future Ready in the API economy

Cloud Musings

The world of business is software. No matter the industry vertical or business model, effective software is the key to business success. An even more important aspect of this reality is the application programming interface (API). If you are unfamiliar with this kind of geeky term, APIs are the glue that connects applications to each other and manages the virtual discussions between you and your customers.

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B2B IT Forum: How Cybersecurity is being handled today and a look ahead

The Investing Edge

With all companies now targets of cyber-attacks, and the average cost of a successful attack rising to $4 million, the demand for security talent is at an all-time high. But while cyber security jobs are up 74 percent in the last five years, more than 209,000 cyber security jobs in the U.S. are unfilled. To add to the complexity, this problem is asymmetric: a hacker only has to be right once while critical data must be protected 100 percent of the time.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Windows Updates List

Mick's IT Blog

I have been working on writing a new script for SCCM and decided while writing it, I would take one of the functions and make it into a separate script for just retrieving windows updates. Sometimes you need a list to compare against, which is what I am using this for as a reporting tool in another script I am writing. This script will query the SCCM server for a list of all Microsoft updates for a specific OS.

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DC Cybersecurity Professionals Gathering 15 Dec at Cyber Playbook Event

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On Tuesday 15 Dec at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in DC cybersecurity professionals from across the public sector will gather with some of the nation's most capable technology vendors to strategize on ways to improve enterprise cybersecurity. This event, titled the 2015 Cybersecurity Playbook, includes presentations from thought leaders and highly regarded professionals such as.

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Google Makes its Biggest Renewable Energy Purchase Yet

Data Center Knowledge

Contracts for 800-plus MW of wind and solar on three continents Read More.

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Looking Back: 2015 Project Report Card

Scott Lowe

In early 2015, I posted a look ahead at my planned 2015 projects , where I took a quick look at some of the self-development projects I set out for myself over the course of 2015. In this post, I’m going to review my progress on those 2015 projects. The 2015 projects were as follows: Complete a new book. Make more open source contributions. Expand to a new configuration management solution.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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CIO’s Digital Agenda XX: Digital IT Performance Management

Future of CIO

IT should focus on improving business and enforcing business capabilities. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.2 million page views with about 2300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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Ascent B2B IT Forum: The Paradigm of Security: Turning Cyber Threat into Opportunity

The Investing Edge

The modern security landscape is becoming a competitive arms race between cyber-attackers and defenders. Threats have matured, risks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and vulnerabilities across the enterprise are commonplace – and evolving. While security spending has ballooned as a result – Gartner forecasted that $77 billion would be funneled globally toward IT security efforts in 2015 – it is not stemming the tide as a record 79 percent of U.S. businesses reported a cybersecurity incide

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Automating Microsoft Endpoint Full System Scan upon Infection with Email Notification

Mick's IT Blog

While helping to manage Microsoft Endpoint, a former colleague suggested that I setup Endpoint to automatically run a full system scan each time an infection is detected. I googled the blog posting on it and although it is a great post, I figured I could streamline it even more by just using SCCM alone to achieve the same outcome. It is nice when you are out of the office and your backup might not have the time to keep an eye on the antivirus infections.

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New Drone Is Both A Submersible and UAV: Think of the use cases of this incredible breakthrough

CTOvision

The video at this link and embedded below shows a drone that can fly and maneuver underwater. A new type of drone that has never existed before. it is a rare vehicle that can operate in multiple environments. Watch as it transitions from water to air and flies and then transitions back. Imagine the missions that can be done by this new robot, both in government and across multiple sectors of the economy.

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Predicting the Future of Sales: How AI and Automation Will Revolutionize Strategies

In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). These aren't just fancy tools — they're real game-changers. Automation and AI are here to redefine every interaction, making them smarter, faster, and more meaningful. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection.