July, 2013

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NIH commits $24 million annually for Big Data Centers of Excellence

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley In what might be the best deployment of resources the government has made in decades, the National Institute of Health (NIH) is establishing a small number of “centers of excellence” to help researchers from throughout the nation improve their ability to ask bigger questions of data, including incredibly large datasets that have never been fully addressable before.

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Hugo: A fast and flexible static site generator built in GoLang

SPF13

'Hugo Website. Hugo is a static site generator written in GoLang. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data. A typical website of moderate size can be rendered in a fraction of a second.

Linux 278
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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

'About DCK. Advertise. Subscribe. Events. Home. Microsoft » Popular. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. By: Rich Miller July 15th, 2013. Tweet. The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. (Image: Microsoft Corp). Microsoft now has more than 1 million servers in its data centers, according to CEO Steve Ballmer, who confirmed the number during his keynote address during last week’s Worldwide Par

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5 Ways to Improve Agile Team Velocity

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, July 24, 2013. 5 Ways to Improve Agile Team Velocity.

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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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Big Data isn’t the answer

Eric D. Brown

'I’m a fan of data. I love using data to solve problems and find answers. I love combining context and data to help organizations find identify issues and find solutions. I love seeing organizations using data to make decisions and manage their business and even more, I love seeing organizations searching for new ways to use data and Big Data principles and technologies to drive value and competitive advantage.

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Fountainhead: Cloud-Hosted Desktops: Real and Growing

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, July 15, 2013. Cloud-Hosted Desktops: Real and Growing. Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. JA. X-NONE. A day doesn’t pass that I’m not asked (by a co-worker, partner or analyst) about whether hosted/virtual desktops delivered over the public Internet make sense.

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Hugo: A fast and flexible static site generator built in GoLang

SPF13

'Hugo Website. Hugo is a static site generator written in GoLang. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data. Written in GoLang for speed, Hugo is significantly faster than most other static site generators.

Linux 223
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Facebook's Power Footprint Growing, Moving East

Data Center Knowledge

'About DCK. Advertise. Subscribe. Events. Home. Facebook » Power. Facebook’s Power Footprint Growing, Moving East. Facebook’s Power Footprint Growing, Moving East. By: Rich Miller July 22nd, 2013. Tweet. A breakdown of power usage at Facebook’s data centers during 2012, from the company’s annual sustainability report. Facebook’s data center energy use grew 33 percent in 2012, as the company installed tens of thousands of servers in its new company-built data centers.

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CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO: What's Your Opinion?

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! Tuesday, July 2, 2013. Whats Your Opinion? Do you like your local government?

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7 Ways To Rebuild An IT Department After A Global Recession

The Accidental Successful CIO

'After the global recession, the clean-up is only part of what IT has to do Image Credit. Ugg, nobody likes a global recession especially those of us who have the CIO job. However, now that it appears to pretty much be over, the big question is just exactly how are we supposed to go about rebuilding the IT department. Bad things happened during the recession and everyone in the IT department knows about these things.

Company 187
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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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CIO Advice for Taking Summer Vacations

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, July 02, 2013. CIO Advice for Taking Summer Vacations.

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Tailoring Your CTOVision Newsfeeds: More topics make it easier for.

CTOvision

'It is easy to tailor your CTOvision.com newsletter distributions. Select the options you want below and click submit and we will handle the rest. You can use this same form to remove yourself from distros for some or all.

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MongoDB and PHP Webinar

SPF13

'This is a 90 minute MongoDB tutorial on using MongoDB in PHP which I gave as a webcast for O’Reilly last year. The tutorial covers everything from Installing MongoDB along with installing and configuring the MongoDB PHP driver. You will learn how to work with MongoDB from within PHP as well as within the MongoDB shell. What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers to actually use?

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Google Spends $1.6 Billion in 3 Months on its Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'About DCK. Advertise. Subscribe. Events. Home. Google. Google’s Data Center Building Boom Continues: $1.6 Billion Investment in 3 Months. Google’s Data Center Building Boom Continues: $1.6 Billion Investment in 3 Months. By: Rich Miller July 19th, 2013. Tweet. Google’s extraordinary data center building boom continues to drive its spending, as the company invested a record $1.6 billion in its data centers in the second quarter of 2013.

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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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The immense role of national and ethnic diaspora in driving global innovation

Trends in the Living Networks

'For over a decade I have been working with various facets of the idea of Global Innovation Networks: connections around the world that facilitate new endeavors. Innovation always stems from diverse connections between ideas and people. Bringing in different viewpoints from around the world necessarily provides more opportunities for the new. Moreover, in the many stages of the innovation process there are almost certainly points where resources or capabilities from other countries can create be

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How CIOs Can Prepare For The Arrival Of Semantic Databases

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to prepare for a whole new way of looking at their data… Image Credit. By now I hope that we’re all aware that Big Data has arrived in everyone’s IT department. As CIOs struggle to determine how best store this tsunami of data, they are facing an even bigger question that begs to be answered: how are they going to manage the data in a way that will allow them to extract the knowledge that the rest of the company is asking them for in a way that will allow them to show the

Big Data 183
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Big Data, Small Data – or YOUR Data?

Eric D. Brown

'I just finished reading Big Data and Marketing: A Confused Relationship? over on Marketing Pilgrim. There’s some good stuff in the post – but what really caught my attention was a paragraph toward the end of the article. The paragraph is: Focus more on the data you have today versus getting caught up in trying to solve Big Data. Start small, learn as you go, and leverage your learnings to move forward into a Big Data world that we as marketers can definitely understand and benefit f

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Revamped Google Maps - CTOvision

CTOvision

'googlelogoa_a_l I have a love-hate relationship with the Android Google Maps application. Google Maps doesn't always work for me, but when it does I am very happy with the results. I feel like many people share the same.

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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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MongoDB and PHP Webinar

SPF13

'This is a 90 minute MongoDB tutorial on using MongoDB in PHP which I gave as a webcast for O’Reilly last year. The tutorial covers everything from Installing MongoDB along with installing and configuring the MongoDB PHP driver. You will learn how to work with MongoDB from within PHP as well as within the MongoDB shell. What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers to actually use?

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What Does Cloud Computing 2.0 Look Like?

Data Center Knowledge

'Most in the tech industry have seen what defines Cloud Computing 1.0. Pete Johnson of ProfitBricks writes that while it’s better than traditional hosting, it’s still not all it could be. Not by a long shot. He explains what Cloud Computing 2.0 looks like.

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The growing demand for ‘organic workplaces’: Hubs and work spaces that are good for us

Trends in the Living Networks

'This evening I went to an event at Hub Sydney. I’m a big fan of the global Hub network of co-working environments, am an ‘ Ambassador for Awesome ‘ for Hub Sydney, and have visited a number of Hubs around the world including running a crowdsourcing workshop at Hub Westminster last year. Interestingly, in every Hub I have visited I have immediately got a very positive sense about the space, something indefinably common across the Hubs, a feeling that there are good people and g

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How CIOs Can Ace Giving Interviews

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Make sure your next interview is something that you’d be willing to listen to again… Image Credit. One of the most important jobs that CIOs do which is an even bigger deal these days given the importance of information technology, is to interview candidates who would like to join their IT department. As important as this job is, very few of us have ever been trained on how to properly conduct an interview.

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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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The Tale of the Tape

Eric D. Brown

'Originally published on Its All About Recovery as The Tale of the Tape. Back in my younger days, I worked in IT operations. One of the projects that consumed about a year of my life was a backup and recovery project. The project’s scope was limited but important. We were tasked with selecting a new backup and recovery platform and building a new process that would take advantage of the new system.

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Instantly Visualize your Big Data with Platfora's Vizboards - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Platfora_220. Organizations that rely on the big data processing power of Hadoop can come across problems when the raw data of Business Intelligence (BI) workflow creates a bottleneck. The analysts who need the data to.

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CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO: When I Grow Up.

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! Thursday, July 4, 2013. When I Grow Up. I think every kid gets asked at some point about their career aspirations.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

'About DCK. Advertise. Subscribe. Events. Home. Cloud Computing » Storage. Overview: When to Use Cloud Computing to Replicate. Overview: When to Use Cloud Computing to Replicate. By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013. Tweet. In deploying a cloud computing model, organizations have many options. One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center.

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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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Carving out the middle: how we must respond to the dangers of the polarization of work

Trends in the Living Networks

'One of the consistent themes in my Future of Work framework is the polarization of work and value. In a number of the keynotes and workshops I’ve run recently, including at the Richmond Financial Services Forum in Interlaken, the Institute of Chartered Accountants conference in Melbourne, and for the executive teams of various corporate clients, I’ve pointed to research from noted labor economist David Autor that brings into focus what is happening.

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4 Ways For CIOs To Do A Better Job Of Interviewing

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Doing an interview correctly is an important job skill Image Credit. The person who has the CIO job (you) has a huge responsibility that is even bigger than the importance of information technology is to your company – you need to make sure that the right people are attracted to your IT department and that you hire the best of the best. The only problem with this responsibility is that far too few of us have ever been trained on just exactly how to go about doing interviews correctly….

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The first step into the cloud

Eric D. Brown

'Last week, I had a conversation with a CIO of a mid-sized firm. The organization has been struggling with incorporating the cloud into their technology plans. Our conversation was centered around the cloud and, specifically, how to use the cloud to replace the aging solutions and platforms currently used by this organization. For a few years, the CIO has been looking at the cloud as a way to cut costs and increase service delivery to the organization.

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Some thoughts on this week’s Google Nexus event

CTOvision

'By Ryan Kamauff The Nexus breakfast promised a new tablet, but delivered so much more. On Wednesday AM Sundar Pinchai, VP of Android and Chrome at Google, held a “breakfast event” in which he detailed the new Nexus 7 tablet, the Chromecast, Android 4.3, and some other details. The galvanizing release were details on the new Nexus 7, to be sold June 30, but the most important piece (in my opinion) was the Chromecast.

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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.