January, 2013

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The CTOvision Disruptive IT List: Firms we believe all enterprise.

CTOvision

'The CTOvision.com Disruptive IT List is our assessment of the technology firms with the greatest potential for virtuous disruption of enterprise IT. Our goal is to provide enterprise CTOs with advanced notice of firms they should.

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Asking Smart Big Data Questions - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Saturday, January 19, 2013. Asking Smart Big Data Questions.

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How to prepare for the jobs of the future: Learning, Love, Collaboration, Design

Trends in the Living Networks

A little while back I was interviewed for a cover story on the jobs of the future for the Careers section of the Sydney Morning Herald. Here are the sections of the article that drew on my thoughts: According to the futurist Ross Dawson, the world of work has always required employees to be on the front foot. “Jobs have always disappeared and others come up,” he says. “It’s just that the pace of change has become far faster than ever before.” Dawson say there are tw

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Fountainhead: The Beginning of the Non-Dedicated Device World?

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, January 10, 2013. The Beginning of the Non-Dedicated Device World? What makes your phone your phone? Or, for that matter, what makes your desktop, your laptop or your tablet yours? After all, millions of people own identical hardware/software configurations of iPhones, Android-based phones, tablets, laptops and other devices.

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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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Being A Good CIO Is All About Having The Right Priorities (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'In the end, it takes both the business and IT to be successful… Image Credit. In every business, there are internal conflicts. One conflict that almost every company seems to have is the failure of the business side of the house to see eye-to-eye with the IT department. This has been going on for so long that it’s almost a part of the definition of information technology.

Strategy 138
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New Year, New Challenges, New Opportunities

Scott Lowe

'I suppose there’s no sense in beating around the bush. As the blog post title indicates, I’m taking on a new set of challenges (and a new set of opportunities) in 2013—and the way to do that is in a new role with a new company. So, effective 2/8/2013, I am leaving EMC Corporation to join the former Nicira group at VMware, working directly for Martin Casado.

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Three Steps to Big Data Discovery - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Thursday, January 24, 2013. Three Steps to Big Data Discovery.

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How much is the right amount to tweet?

Trends in the Living Networks

Of the many issues when engaging on social media, one of the most central is how much to post. If you don’t post enough, you’re barely visible. If you post too much, you annoy people who are likely to unfollow you, and you make any individual post far less likely to be seen or acted on. Last week I was the host for #crowdchat , my first ever Twitter chat.

Adobe 153
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Mick's IT Blogs: Rearranging the Driver Folders in MDT

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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Why Do CIOs Make Everyone Jump Through Hoops To Get Things Done? (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'The IT methodologies sure seem like unnecessary bureaucracy to everyone else… Image Credit. In every business, there are internal conflicts. One conflict that almost every company seems to have is the failure of the business side of the house to see eye-to-eye with the IT department. This has been going on for so long that it’s almost a part of the definition of information technology.

Strategy 100
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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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Puppet, User Accounts, and Configuration Files

Scott Lowe

'A short while ago I posted an article that described how to use Puppet for account management. In that article, I showed you how to use virtual user resources to manage user accounts on Puppet-managed systems. In this post, I’m going to expand on that configuration so that we can also manage the initial account configuration files, and do so in the proper order.

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By 2015, more than 30 percent of analytics projects will deliver.

CTOvision

'cyber-workforce.preview Gartner projects that by 2015, more than 30 percent of analytics projects will deliver insights based on structured and unstructured data. Sounds rational/logical/realistic to me. Sounds like the entire.

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How Effective is your Big Data Implementation?

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, January 08, 2013. How Effective is your Big Data Implementation?

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Strategic overview of AHT Group: sharing our ventures, projects, and enablers

Trends in the Living Networks

I believe that open business is an important and valuable foundation for success today. We actively share our activities and priorities on an ongoing basis, and intend to share considerably more over time. Two years ago I shared our AHT Group Business Model Overview and a year later I published our 2012 Priorities , and found sharing these useful for ourselves and for others.

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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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Technology Drives Change at a Top Global Bank

The Investing Edge

'Ascent strives to anticipate long-term technology trends within the enterprise that can change business for the better. Taking the long view means the technologies we identify can take years before their impact is felt at the enterprise level, so it’s encouraging to get a glimpse of emerging areas of technology that are already driving massive change at large companies.

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Mick's IT Blogs: ERROR, application GUID not found in application list

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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Building Libvirt 1.0.1 RPMs for CentOS 6.3

Scott Lowe

'In previous articles, I’ve shown you how to compile libvirt 0.10.1 on CentOS 6.3 , but—as several readers have pointed out in the comments to that and other articles—compiling packages from source may not be the best long-term approach. Not only does it make it difficult to keep the system up-to-date, it also makes automating the configuration of the host rather difficult.

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Microsoft and DoD strike a deal, Cybersecurity issues unveiled at.

CTOvision

'DoD Here's the top cyber news and stories of the day. Big Data in Demand for Intelligence Community - The National Security Agency (NSA) is poised to deliver an initial cloud computing capability for the entire intelligence.

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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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Systems Objective Scorecard

A CIO's Voice

'During the course of managing an IT department, it is important for IT management to understand areas of risks. There are standard best practices that can be engaged to score your department/organization. Below I have added some as a starting point. These are by no way complete. Management and Planning. Objective 1. The staff responsibilities to information systems environment are assigned to specialized personnel.

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Today show: when will we entrust child care to robots?

Trends in the Living Networks

I was in Sydney over New Year (nowhere better to celebrate it!) before heading off for holidays, and was invited onto the Today national breakfast program to talk about some of the themes from my 2013 and Beyond Appearing and Disappearing framework. Click on the image below to view a video of the segment. One of the ideas they wanted to talk about was “robo-nannies” We originally dreamed of robots that could do more than help with manufacturing and mechanical processes, and we are no

Education 143
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4.4 Million Big Data Jobs? Not So Fast

The Investing Edge

'Gartner made headlines recently when it predicted big data would create 4.4 million jobs by 2015. The analyst firm opined that there’s not enough hired talent to meet the challenges of big data and finding opportunities to turn information into revenue. Gartner reasons that big data will accelerate growth in the global economy and create job opportunities.

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Mick's IT Blogs: SCCM 2012: Report Builder 2.0 is not installed

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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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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Using Mock to Build Sanlock 2.4 RPMs for CentOS 6.3

Scott Lowe

'The topic of this post might seem a bit strange, but it will all make sense later. In this post, I’ll show you how to use Mock to build RPMs for sanlock 2.4 for use with CentOS 6.3. The information in this post is based on information found in two other very helpful pages: Using Mock to test package builds. How to rebuild a package from Fedora or EPEL for RHEL, CentOS, or SL.

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Tech Blogs We Love - CTOvision

CTOvision

'What makes a great tech blog? It takes great staff, an actionable vision, and timely/accurate reporting. It also takes leaders who don't mind hard work and who are good at engaging with the community. How do you know.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Epidemics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Epidemics. By Werner Vogels on 25 January 2013 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). My paper to read this weekend was the Alan Demers seminal paper on epidemic techniques for database replication. I realized that in 2004, before my Amazon days, I already wrote a blog post about the fundamental publications in the area of epidemics, so this seems like a good moment

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The isomorphism of inside and outside – why exploring our minds and the world are the same

Trends in the Living Networks

On my recent holiday I was in extraordinarily beautiful surroundings, in the Jervis Bay area of Australia’s Eastern coast. Being in that environment helped me to recall my thoughts from when I was much younger, when it struck me that the world inside us and the world outside are isomorphic : they have exactly the same shape and structure. We can learn about our minds and the richness of who we are by studying and exploring the world around us, particularly the natural world.

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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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StartApp Named One of 2012’s Fastest Growing Startups

The Investing Edge

'Business Insider recently released a list of the “ 5 Fastest Growing Startups of 2012 ,” comprised of emerging companies with the potential to “transform industries and the business world at-large.” We’re thrilled to see one of Ascent’s portfolio companies on the list: StartApp , which Business Insider deems “poised to significantly impact the mobile industry.

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Mick's IT Blogs: How to reinstall a trial version of software after it has.

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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Inaugural OpenStack Denver Meetup

Scott Lowe

'I’m very excited to announce the inaugural OpenStack Denver meetup , scheduled for 7 PM on Wednesday, January 9, 2013—only 6 days away! If you haven’t already joined the meetup group, please head over to the group page on Meetup.com and join, then RSVP for the inaugural OpenStack Denver meeting. Cisco Systems was kind enough to sponsor the event, both by hosting us at their Englewood office (near Park Meadows Mall) as well as by supplying food (pizza) and drinks (soda/water).

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Looking Forward ? 2013 The Year Of The Crowdfunding Gold Rush.

CTOvision

'crowdfunding-photo. 2012 was an amazing year for crowdfunding. Within the span of a three month period (March ? May 2012), the largest crowdfunding sites including Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Grow VC, and Rockethub.

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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.