May, 2013

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Tech Trends To Watch In May 2013 - CTOvision

CTOvision

'The following is the meat from our monthly tech trends report. You can have this delivered to your email each month by visiting our newsletter signup page. Over the last several months we continued to see foundations being.

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Fountainhead: A Tour of Switch's SuperNAP

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, May 13, 2013. A Tour of Switchs SuperNAP. I have to admit that I was prepared to be underwhelmed when I toured the Switch SuperNap in Las Vegas. After all, how impressive can a co-location facility be? Just slab, cooling, ping, pipe and power.

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Social Media and Public Employees - Part 3 - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Sunday, May 26, 2013. Social Media and Public Employees - Part 3. Employee First Amendment Protection & Employer Discipline.

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5 Secrets A CIO Needs To Know In Order To Create A Social Media Plan

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to know how to find social media secrets. Image Credit. Darn that social media stuff! Just when you thought that the job of being a CIO couldn’t get any tougher , along comes this whole new way for the world to communicate. The arrival of social media has just boosted the importance of information technology. What makes things even tougher is that the rest of the company is waiting for you to tell them what the rules for using social media at work is….

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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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Transforming to a Big Data Organization

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, May 16, 2013. Transforming to a Big Data Organization.

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The evolution of parallel entrepreneurship exemplifies today’s experimental economy

Trends in the Living Networks

'In today’s world planning is close to obsolete. Companies small and large must experiment to find what works and what doesn’t work. The lean startup movement has provided a clear model of how to iterate through trial, error, and finally success. There have been many discussions around parallel entrepreneurship and whether it diffuses resources and energy rather than focusing entrepreneurial capabilities on a single endeavor, its rise is a sign of the times.

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Fountainhead: What Clouds Will Form Around Data's Gravity?

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, May 20, 2013. What Clouds Will Form Around Datas Gravity? The concept of Data Gravity posits that as data accumulates (whether it be stored, analyzed, used) it tends to attract even more similar data. And as the data amasses there is less likelihood that it will be moved/migrated elsewhere.

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Social Media and Public Employees - Part 2 - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Sunday, May 26, 2013. Social Media and Public Employees - Part 2. Internet Availability.

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Why BYOD Spells DOOM For CIOs

The Accidental Successful CIO

'BYOD just might be a trap that has been set to snare a CIO Image Credit. Have you heard about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) craze that is sweeping companies worldwide? Employees have invested so much money along with time and effort into customizing their smartphones, tablets, etc. that they want to bring them to work and use them to do work. This is opening the door to a whole new world of problems for the person who has the CIO job….

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What Data Scientists Can Learn From Moneyball

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. Wednesday, May 08, 2013. What Data Scientists Can Learn From Moneyball.

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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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We are on track for 518% global economic growth this half-century

Trends in the Living Networks

'Yesterday I gave an executive briefing to a senior team tasked with generating major new revenue opportunities for their organization. My presentation delved into the drivers of change in economic structure, individual and societal behaviours, the shape of cities, the role of government, and the implications for the elderly of demographic change. However to kick off I wanted to put the group into a bigger mental frame than they would usually think in, so I ran through the following chart: This

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Would you like the truth about the NSA? Watch this one minute.

CTOvision

'Everyone in the national security establishment knows of NSA's Deputy Director, John C Inglis. He is without a doubt one of the most professional, competent, courageous leaders in the federal government. Like the vast.

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Financing News: PerspecSys and the Cloud Data Security Opportunity

The Investing Edge

'Last week PerspecSys announced a new financing round that we participated in, alongside Paladin and Intel. We are very excited to be working with the team and our co-investors, and see tremendous potential for this company. Over the last 12 to 18 months, we have witnessed an almost seismic shift in the posture of large enterprise customers toward cloud-based applications.

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Social Media and Public Employees - Part 1 - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Sunday, May 12, 2013. Social Media and Public Employees - Part 1. Note: I recently completed a class for my Masters degree on personnel management which required a paper.

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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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What Google Can Teach CIOs About Finding Inner Peace (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Inner peace is what all CIOs are really looking for. So CIO, what is your life like these days? Are you dealing with long hours at work, demanding peers and customers? An IT department who doesn’t want to talk to you let alone do what you need them to do? Unfortunately all of these things seem to be part of the modern definition of information technology.

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Learning NVP, Part 1: High-Level Architecture

Scott Lowe

'This blog post kicks off a new series of posts describing my journey to become more knowledgeable about the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). NVP is, in my opinion, an awesome platform, but there hasn’t been a great deal of information shared about the product, how it works, how you configure it, etc. That’s something I’m going to try to address in this series of posts.

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Economic structural change is NOT industry compositional change

Trends in the Living Networks

'I am currently preparing a number of keynotes for senior business audiences over coming weeks. In preliminary conversations with one group I encountered a very common and deeply misleading view of how business is changing today. We engaged in discussions on “economic structural change”, that were in fact only about changes in industry composition.

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DOD confirms China's cyberwar strategy, White House unveils open.

CTOvision

'DoD Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Department of Labor website hack highlights advanced attack trends ? The recent attack at the Department of Labor is bringing to the forefront advanced tactics and.

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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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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Join Me at the Gartner IT.

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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Smartphones & Fitness Apps - CIO Musings

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Smartphones & Fitness Apps. Chesterfield County VA has a real commitment to the health and well being of our employees.

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CIO’s Need To Know How To Attract The Best IT Talent

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to know how to attract (and keep) the best IT talent Image Credit. Who is responsible for making sure that your IT department has enough IT workers do everything that is expected of it? Lots of CIOs would like to think that given the importance of information technology, this task is something that the Human Resources (HR) department needs to take care of.

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Using pf on OS X Mountain Lion

Scott Lowe

'I’ve written before about adding an extra layer of network security to your Macintosh by leveraging the BSD-level ipfw firewall, in addition to the standard GUI firewall and additional third-party firewalls (like Little Snitch ). In OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion, though, ipfw was deprecated in favor of pf , the powerful packet filter that I believe originated on OpenBSD.

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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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Can cyber-crime result in global financial systemic risk?

Trends in the Living Networks

'On Saturday I was interviewed on SBS World News about the ATM heist that netted $45 million from 40,000 withdrawals over 26 countries. The video of the TV news segment (start at 09:05) is available online until 19 May. It was an extremely sophisticated attack, involving not just hacking credit card payment processors and banks, but also eliminating the limits on prepaid debit cards before creating thousands of copies.

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A guide to Rooting your Android phone - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Root One of the constant discussions between Android users is why/if you should ?root.? Rooting is a term that describes the ability to grant programs ?superuser? access. This allows programs to operate at the root level of the.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Porting NMEA Data to the iPhone and iPad

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: Guest Blog: Sequestration and.

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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Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security. By Werner Vogels on 22 May 2013 08:30 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Itâ??s been a few months since I last wrote about Amazon Redshift and I thought Iâ??d update you on some of the things we are hearing from customers.

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Potential Fix for Kerberos, SSH, LDAP, and Active Directory Issue

Scott Lowe

'I had a reader contact me with a question on using Kerberos and LDAP for authentication into Active Directory, based on Active Directory integration work I did many years ago. I was unable to help him, but he did find the solution to the problem, and I wanted to share it here in case it might help others. The issue was that he was experiencing a problem using native Kerberos authentication against Active Directory with SSH.

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Future Creative Drinks in Sydney on 31 May – hope to see you there!

Trends in the Living Networks

'A good while ago now I used to run Party Alert Network, a series of events, drinks, and parties that were open to all. In the spirit of bringing together interesting people I am organizing a drinks on 31 May in Sydney, with the theme of Future Creative, since I expect pretty much all of the people there to match that description. Friday 31 May, 6-9pm.

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Invincea: An update for the enterprise technology professional.

CTOvision

'For disclosure: I am on the Invincea advisory board. I'm incredibly proud of to be associated with those guys and I'm hoping my pleasure with them comes through in this post. Invincea delivers an enterprise grade breach.

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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.