March, 2014

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Leon Panetta Warns of Cyber Pearl Harbor: and a CTO gives him a polite earful

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Leon Panetta spoke today at the Symantec government conference in DC. No matter what your politics are, I hope you see this man as a great American who always puts country above himself. I believe that. He has spent his entire adult life proving that. He is a fantastic speaker. He held the attention of an audience of 2000 with a great overview of the state of national security, including threats, and as far as I can tell did that perfectly.

CTO 338
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The SUPERNAP Goes Global, as Switch Adds International Partners

Data Center Knowledge

'Colocation provider Switch has formed a joint venture to launch an international expansion, teaming with Accelero Capital Holdings and Orascom TMT Investments (OTMTI) to build SUPERNAP data centers around the world.

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Smart Ring Roundup

CIO Musings

'One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Sauron, Mordor, Middle Earth. Wait a minute. Smart Rings? Yep, thats right. The social and technology direction towards clunky and fashion challenged "wearable" technology has migrated 6 inches from the new smart watch on your wrist, to your middle finger.

Fashion 256
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What Agile Teams Can Learn From 1st Graders

Social, Agile and Transformation

'When I saw this hanging in my daughter''s classroom I knew it needed to be shared with Scrum Masters and other agile team members. So much what makes agile teams successful is dependent on their collaboration - establishing a shared understanding of priorities, solving problems, developing solutions, resolving blocks, and improving practices. A big part of this collaboration occurs in both.

Agile 249
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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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3 Hiring Mistakes That CIOs Make

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to avoid making these hiring mistakes Image Credit. When a CIO makes a hiring decision for the IT department, it can have a long lasting impact on the department. Despite the importance of information technology, the people who work in your IT department are even more important. This means that the person in the CIO job wants to take his or her time when considering candidates and not make a foolish blunder.

Education 194
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The role of IT and the CIO in Marketing

Eric D. Brown

'Isaac Sacolick recently wrote a post titled Dear CIO, Here’s How To Help the CMO with Marketing Automation where he talked about the need for CIO’s and CMO’s to work closely together for marketing automation projects. In that post, he wrote: …fully achieving “marketing automation” is no where as easy as SalesForce, Microsoft, or Oracle will sell your CMO.

Oracle 184

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With Blue Mix, IBM Services Meet the SoftLayer Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'To realize its cloud ambitions, IBM must find a way to connect its existing base of enterprise customers to the SoftLayer platform. A key ingredient in IBM''s effort is Blue Mix, a Platform as a Service offering that Big Blue introduced last month. Here''s a closer look at Blue Mix.

IBM 275
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Make a Difference - Work For Us

CIO Musings

'We are hiring a ton of positions over the next few months. The jobs are posted on [link]. More information can be found there and you can apply on line. Why is Chesterfield VA a great place to work? Lots of reasons. Excellence - We have been the #1 digital county in the USA twice in the last 4 years. In 2010 we were voted as having the best county website in the nation.

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3 Big Data Platforms Needed for Marketing Automation Success

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Big Data Platforms for Marketing Technologists and CIOs looking for businesses partners to invest in Big Data platforms should begin their hunt with their Marketing departments and CMOs. As I''ve been covering in this blog, CMOs looking to become more data driven as they perform multiple digital marketing experiments and are likely to select a marketing automation platform.

Big Data 232
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How Can A CIO Adjust To Working For A New CEO?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'A new business card means that you’re working for a new CEO Image Credit. Roughly half of the having the CIO job is communicating with other people. We all know about communicating the importance of information technology to the rest of the company; however, one of the most important people that you have to communicate with is your CEO. When there is a change at the top, then all of a sudden you’ve got a brand new person to report to.

Company 170
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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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How do you define the CIO role?

Eric D. Brown

'While doing a bit of research on the role of the CIO for an article I was writing earlier this week , I ran across this definition of Chief Information Officer from Gartner: The person responsible for planning, choosing, buying and installing a company’s computer and information-processing operation. After reading that, I had to check the calendar to make sure that I didn’t invent a time-machine and travel back to the 1970′s.

Travel 173
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Internet Two Seeks Chief Cyberinfrastructure Security Officer

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. A reader just brought a job description to my attention and I wanted to share it with you in the hopes that you will pass it along till the right person is found for this very important position. From: [link]. Chief Cyberinfrastructure Security Officer. Internet2® is a member-owned, advanced technology community founded by the nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996.

Security 293
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IBM SoftLayer Extends its Cloud to Hong Kong

Data Center Knowledge

'IBM has committed $1.2 billion towards cloud investment and data center expansion. The first of 15 data centers planned for 2014, in Hong Kong, will open this week for online orders.

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NCOIC Debuts Roadmap for Designing, Managing Cyber-secure Hybrid Computing Environment

Cloud Musings

'Open process by the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium uses cloud infrastructure to cut computing costs in half and enable collaboration by different systems and users WASHINGTON—March 5, 2014 —The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) has begun offering an open process that will enable governments, agencies and businesses to create and manage a secure, hybrid IT computing environment quickly and cost effectively.

Security 138
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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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Why CIO Should Participate on Twitter

Social, Agile and Transformation

'100 Most Social CIOs on Twitter @ValaAfshar on @HuffPostTech You blog? You post frequently on Twitter? You have the time? These are frequent questions I here from CIOs and other professionals. In addition to these questions, some voice security concerns or worry about how to interpret their corporate social media policies. When they think about participating - not just joining - a.

Social 195
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How Can CIOs Command The Room During A Speech?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'It’s not enough to just give a speech, you have to command the room. Image Credit. One of the joys (?) of being the person with the CIO job is that you often get asked to make speeches where you can talk about the importance of information technology. Everyone thinks that you know what is going to happen in the future and they are hoping that if they can get you to deliver a speech, you just might let a hint of the future slip out.

Study 138
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The New CIO – Leader first, technologist second

Eric D. Brown

'I’ve been writing about the “ New CIO “ for almost 5 years and I finally feel like there’s some real change coming to the CIO role and subsequently, to the world of the IT Pro. For example, Dion Hinchcliffe recently outlined his thoughts on The New CIO Mandate. In that post, he describes his ‘Five Elements of the New CIO’ as: Lead the business from the front.

Big Data 173
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: building a business when there are no easy answers

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. I was recently speaking with a friend who formed a business. His background is perfect for what he is doing, his ideas are solid, his product addresses a pain point in most modern enterprises. And he has the stamina and work ethic of a champion. But still there is no certainty in his future. Even hard working, rightly focused CEOs like this one need every advantage they can get.

CTO Hire 284
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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Immersion-2: Liquid Cooling Designed for 100kW Racks

Data Center Knowledge

'Allied Control is marketing its Immersion-2 liquid cooling design as a container-based approach for ultra high density cooling, supporting loads of up 100 kW a rack.

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6 Reasons Why DaaS and VDI Terms Undervalue The Reality

Fountainhead

'A day doesn’t pass that I find myself explaining why DaaS isn’t synonymous with VDI – and neither term does justice to the real range of value possible. Both end-users and service providers have a preconceived notion that DaaS simply means delivery of a “desktop”. But that simplistic VDI-style mindset (and desktop-only mindset) doesn’t describe the real range of services possible.

Mobile 138
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Dear CIO, Here's How To Help the CMO with Marketing Automation

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Are you a CIO or IT Leader that "get''s it"? Are you a CIO or an IT leader that wants to provide technology services to the CMO and Marketing department? Perhaps you started small and partnered with the CMO on understanding goals, continued to develop pilot programs, collaborated on data driven programs, and then established lunch/learns so your staff were able to participate in Marketing''s time.

How To 164
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Are You An Application Or An Infrastructure CIO?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Does a CIO have to choose between applications and infrastructure? Image Credit. Due to the importance of information technology, CIOs are in charge of an IT department that works on many different things. As much as we’d all like to think that we are balanced – we care about all things having to do with IT equally, it’s just not true. Depending on your background before you got the CIO job, you are probably biased in one direction or another.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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IT Transformation – or just remaining agile and ready for change?

Eric D. Brown

'We’ve been living with the “ IT Transformation ” phrase for quite a while. I remember hearing and reading about how IT groups were ‘transforming’ themselves from what they used to be to what they needed to be in the future. The problem that I’ve found with transformation is that we’re usually too busy ‘transforming’ ourselves and teams rather than focused on the business issues of the day.

Agile 168
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Strategic Big Brain Science: NIH celebrates grand opening of John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Editor’s note: This strikes me as important news that can impact every sector of the economy and every industry, as well as the future of humanity. Yep, this can be really big. Read the release below for more, including info on how to watch the scientific symposium online. – bg. Strategic Big Brain Science: NIH celebrates grand opening of John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center.

Research 279
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Cisco Joins Cloud Wars, Pledges $1 Billion for Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Tech giant Cisco, predominantly known for networking equipment, will invest $1 billion to enter the cloud computing arena. Cisco is the latest in a long string of traditional tech companies needing to do something big to enter cloud computing.

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PowerShell: Get list of installed printers

Mick's IT Blog

'This function will get the list of printers installed for a user. It will also get the Default Printer. It outputs the list to Printers.txt, located at the location where the script is executed. You can download the script here. Function GetRelativePath { $Global:RelativePath=(split-path $SCRIPT:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path -parent)+"" } Function GetPrinterList { #Declare Local Memory Set-Variable -Name Count -Scope Local -Force Set-Variable -Name DefaultPrinter -Scope Local -Force Set-Variable

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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A Quick Introduction to Docker

Scott Lowe

'If you’ve been following trends in the “cloud” world, you’ve probably heard of Docker. In this post I’m going to provide a quick introduction to Docker, which might be helpful if you’re wondering what Docker is and why it’s garnered so much attention. The best way to describe Docker is to use the phrase from the Docker web site—Docker is “an open source project to pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container.” The idea

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Should CIOs Use Contests To Get The Job Done?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs know that everyone likes a good contest Image Credit. Let’s face it: there are some problems that an IT department faces that despite the importance of information technology are just tough to solve. As the person in the CIO job you’ve got to find solutions to these types of problems , but you also have to manage the time and the cost that it’s going to take to find a solution.

Insurance 113
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Links for March 23 2014

Eric D. Brown

'Midwest IT Survival » Evolution of Corporate IT and the Future Impact of Cloud. Quote : All in all, corporate IT is in constant evolution. The rate of evolution appears on all counts to be accelerating with no signs of any slowdown in the future. Anyone who isn’t prepared to have to constantly re-invent themselves should seriously consider a different career path than corporate IT.

Big Data 140
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How Can We Retain The Jedi Masters Of Federal IT In Government Service? Yodas Require Big Missions To Serve

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley If you follow federal IT you more than likely already read Steve O’Keefe. But if you are new to this world you can find him at [link]. Last week he treated his followers to a nicely written piece which used metaphors from the Titanic (but in this case, the USS ITanic ).This is a great overview of some key leadership challenges in federal IT.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.