CTOvision

MARCH 11, 2014

'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.

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CIO Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

'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.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 11, 2014

'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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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 20, 2014

'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.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 19, 2014

'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.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 4, 2014

'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.

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CIO Musings

MARCH 24, 2014

'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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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 27, 2014

'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.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 10, 2014

'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.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 5, 2014

'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.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 27, 2014

'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.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

'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.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 4, 2014

'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.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 26, 2014

'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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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 26, 2014

'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.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 17, 2014

'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.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 6, 2014

'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.

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CTOvision

MARCH 18, 2014

'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.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 5, 2014

'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.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 24, 2014

'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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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 3, 2014

'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.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 12, 2014

'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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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 25, 2014

'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.

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CTOvision

MARCH 31, 2014

'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.

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Mick's IT Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

'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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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 20, 2014

'The Green Grid has finally reached consensus on a metric more than five years in the making: Data Center Energy Productivity, or DCeP, is computed as useful work produced divided by total energy consumed by the data center. DCeP allows each user to define useful work as applicable to the user’s.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 11, 2014

'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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The Investing Edge

MARCH 3, 2014

'My partner Matt Fates and I have been traveling through Europe this past week as part of the fundraising process for our new fund. After a busy prior few weeks of domestic travel, I am eager to return home, but I do so with enhanced perspective. . While Putin intended the Sochi Olympics to dominate the news, his connection to events in another region captured the front page.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 23, 2014

'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.

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CTOvision

MARCH 11, 2014

'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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