March, 2013

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DSB Report on Resilient Military Systems and the Cyber Threat.

CTOvision

'How does that make you feel? You know yourself what adversaries are doing when it comes to intellectual property theft. Now read on for more about what the DSB sees as the threat to military systems.

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Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects

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. Monday, March 18, 2013. Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, March 25, 2013. What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? Is calling an app "cloud-ready" just a form of cloud-washing? Cmon - arent all apps "ready for the cloud" (and for that matter, ANY cloud)? Doesnt IaaS and its elastic capacity + automation solve for all app scaling and configuration issues?

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You've Got The Data, Now What CIO? (The CIO job is to use the CIO position to communicate the importance of information technology)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Just collecting data isn’t enough, now you need to know what to do with it Image Credit. As CIO, a big part of your job is to help your company realize the importance of information technology and, based on this, help them to both collect and store data. Once you have it, you need to scrub it, maintain it, and protect it. However, has anyone every told you how to do the most important thing with it – use it?

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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 7 characteristics of powerful visions for effective leadership

Trends in the Living Networks

‘Visionary leadership’ is one of the phrases most bandied about these days, yet it is almost always an aspiration rather than a description. A vision of what is possible is a prerequisite to visionary leadership. That vision can come from an individual, but more often it is the product of many people. The vision that underpins visionary leadership is definitely not the ‘Vision’ that is encapsulated in a neat phrase and sits alongside the ‘Mission Statement’ and its ilk.

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CloudCheckr : Amazon Complexity Challenges Many Users

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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Measuring Costs in Agile Delivery - 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. Monday, March 11, 2013. Measuring Costs in Agile Delivery.

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Fountainhead: A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, March 18, 2013. A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies. These are the best of times. These are the the worst of times. These are the times of the "cloud era" where two technology leaders are struggling to dominate the IT infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud markets.

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CIOs Know That The Speed Of Data Determines The Future Of The Company (The CIO job is to use the CIO position to communicate the importance of information technology)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'The fastest company always wins… Image Credit. The CIO job is to find ways to use IT technology to help his or her company move faster, do more, and in the end make more money. Ultimately this is how we show the importance of information technology. While this is pretty clear, just exactly how to do this, or how to measure how well you are doing this, has always been just a bit trickery.

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How drones could build real-world networks to transform delivery of food, medicine, mail, and more

Trends in the Living Networks

The rise of drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) has been at the forefront of the news over the last months, with issues emerging that range from the remote use of military force to domestic privacy. However there are many very positive applications of drones. Matternet , spawned from a Singularity University program, envisages creating a network of drones to address developing world problems.

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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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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦. By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Time passes very quickly around here and I hadnâ??t realized until recently that over a year has gone by since we launched DynamoDB.

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DOD Enterprise Email Reaches One Million User Milestone.

CTOvision

'FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. ? Two years after its inception, the Department of Defense Enterprise Email system reached one million users when a Soldier at Fort Riley, Kan. received a new email account today. Reaching.

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Agile Estimation and Architecture Leads to Collaboration and.

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. Monday, March 25, 2013. Agile Estimation and Architecture Leads to Collaboration and Innovation.

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Experts Tackle Enterprise Mobility at Latest B2B IT Forum

The Investing Edge

'Despite the monumental traffic on Tuesday night (where did that come from?!?), we had well over 100 folks at our most recent B2B IT Forum, and the feedback has been universally positive. Our panel of experts, led by moderator Chris Hazelton of 451 Research , provided a compelling and informative discussion on the shift to mobile within organizations of all sizes.

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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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How Cloud Brokerage Enables a Practical Path to Cloud IT

Cloud Musings

'Join us on Wed, Apr 17, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT to explore how to use cloud brokerage to move efficiently and securely to the cloud. More and more business and governmental agencies are migrating to the. cloud but the reality is that move can often be slow, painful, and. complicated. Even expert system integrators are struggling to stay. relevant and help their customers use cloud in a practical way.

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The effective CIOs of the future will be internal and external entrepreneurs

Trends in the Living Networks

As part of the recent Tomorrow-Ready CIO event series run by CIO Magazine and IBM, I was interviewed on the messages I shared in my keynote and the supporting Future of the CIO Framework. The brief video, available on CIO Magazine , is below. Some of the points I make in the video are: * One of the key capabilities of effective CIOs is an entrepreneurial mindset.

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Announcing VMware vSphere Design, 2nd Edition

Scott Lowe

'I’ve been phenomenally lucky to be involved in a number of book projects around VMware vSphere. I think that most people probably know me for the wildly popular Mastering VMware vSphere 4 and Mastering VMware vSphere 5 books (released at VMworld 2009 and VMworld EMEA 2011, respectively), but in late 2010/early 2011 I also had the opportunity to collaborate with Forbes Guthrie and Maish Saidel-Keesing on VMware vSphere Design.

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GSA Cancels two more conferences, ICS' are still under attack.

CTOvision

'Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Cloud security service protects WordPress content ? ?Developer NorseCrop has launched a cloud security service designed to protect open-source content management.

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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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Mick's IT Blogs: Stopping system from locking

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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The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2013 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Netflix has over the years become one of the absolute best engineering powerhouses for building cloud-native applications. At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services.

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Selling Data Insights vs. Tools? Let’s Connect

The Investing Edge

'I have written a number of times about the massive potential that resides in extracting insight from data. Leveraging new database, storage, parallel processing and cloud infrastructure, we can now get to these insights at cost levels and in timeframes that can impact decision making at very regular intervals and in major ways. This was just not possible a few years ago.

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Professional services will be at the heart of our economic future

Trends in the Living Networks

Last night was the announcement of the winners of the annual BRW Client Choice Awards. Each year Beaton Consulting compiles the opinions of large professional service clients – this year 40,000 of them – who collectively select the best professional service firms in Australia. The results are announced at a gala dinner and published in BRW magazine.

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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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Call for Networking Topics

Scott Lowe

'I’m getting ready to start a “Virtual Networking 101″ series of blog posts, where I’m going to try to help introduce the ideas and concepts of virtual networking to VM admins that might not be familiar with these concepts. These are not deep dives; rather, I’m aiming to provide enough introductory knowledge that VM admins are who aren’t familiar with this stuff can at least understand what’s going on.

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An Update on piXlogic: Next-Generation Visual Search Solutions for.

CTOvision

'Video-Surveillance piXlogic is widely known in the DoD and intelligence community for its ability to provide visual search solutions that automatically analyze and index the contents of images and video files, providing.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Powershell: Public Desktop Environmental Variable

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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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: NJVC Cloudcuity Management.

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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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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Elastic Beanstalk a la Node - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Elastic Beanstalk a la Node. By Werner Vogels on 11 March 2013 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I spent a lot of time talking to AWS developers, many working in the gaming and mobile space, and most of them have been finding Node.js well suited for their web applications.

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A new world of (lack of) privacy: Here’s looking at you with Google Glass

Trends in the Living Networks

The discussion is heating up around the forthcoming Google Glass augmented reality glasses and what will almost surely be a wave of similar devices from other companies. Much of the conversation focuses on the ability of Google Glass to continuously capture video of wherever its user is looking. Following an insalubrious bar in Seattle announcing Google Glass-wearers would be banned from its premises, we are seeing the launch of handy Google Glass Ban Signs for whoever else wants to ban Google G

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Technology Short Take #30

Scott Lowe

'Welcome to Technology Short Take #30. This Technology Short Take is a bit heavy on the networking side, but I suppose that’s understandable given my recent job change. Enjoy! Networking. Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. (Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) If you’re wondering about network virtualization and why there is a focus on it, this post might help shed some light.

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An Interview with Russ Kennedy of Cleversafe - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Recently, I asked Russ Kennedy, Vice President of Product Strategy, Marketing and Customer Solutions, of Cleversafe some probing questions about his firm and their capabilities. We talked about why enterprises need.

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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.