CTOvision

JULY 25, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Stories are starting to make it into the tech media about what appears to be a massive melt-down of one of the nation’s most important IT systems. This system is not be as widely known as healthcare.gov, but it should be, because it is every bit as important. The system is the IT behind the critical missions of the Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 8, 2014

'Gets local officials'' green light for $55 million 17.5 megawatt project Read More.

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Data Center Apple Data 279

SPF13

JULY 20, 2014

'This presentation was given as a Workshop at OSCON 2014. Description. New to Go? This tutorial will give developers an introduction and practical experience in building applications with the Go language. Gopher Steve Francia, Author of Hugo , Cobra , and many other popular Go packages breaks it down step by step as you build your own full featured Go application.

Licensing 257

Licensing .Net Applications Government 257

Eric D. Brown

JULY 24, 2014

'I received an email this week pointing me to a nice article over on The Enterprisers Project titled “ CIO’s: Stay Relevant With This Advice From 7 Veteran IT Executives “ The article leads to a downloadable PDF that describes a roundtable discussion between the following IT veterans: Cynthia Stoddard, NetApp CIO. John Marcante, Vanguard CIO and Managing Director.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 15, 2014

'It''s hard to escape the media hype on the Internet of Things, the Internet of Everything, or the Industrial Internet. Whether its valuation on the size of the industry ($7.1 trillion by 2020 according to IDC), estimates on the number of sensors(50 billion by 2020 according to Cisco), or futurists predicting the disruption and opportunities coming from IoT technologies that connect the physical.

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Internet Big Data Media Industry 187

The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 9, 2014

'When a glitch is big enough, the government will step in Image Credit. In a perfect world, IT systems would always work and they would always work correctly. However, we don’t live in that perfect world. What this means for CIOs is that glitches happen. It’s our job to minimize them, but we’ll never be able to eliminate them completely.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2014

'Bitcoin miners are building massive "hashing centers" featuring high-density hardware, low-reliability power infrastructure and off-the-shelf enclosures. Read More.

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Budget Hardware 279

SPF13

JULY 30, 2014

'This presentation was given at OSCON 2014. Object Oriented (OO) programming has dominated software engineering for the last two decades. The paradigm built on powerful concepts such as Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymoprhism has been internalized by the majority of software engineers. Although Go is not OO in the strict sense, we can continue to leverage the skills we’ve honed as OO engineers to come up with simple and solid designs.

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 31, 2014

'I just finished reading Marketing’s New Digital Role Is Shortchanging IT. The article had a good premise (e.g., IT and Marketing are fighting for budget) but rather than discuss the real reasons for this current predicament, the author obliquely places the blame at the feet of the Marketing group for ‘stealing’ budget from IT. The author claims that Marketing is shortchanging IT by taking budget away from IT initiatives.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 21, 2014

'This post isn''t about code reuse or developing web services. Surely, you and your development organization understand the benefits of developing modular code, packing it in libraries, developing APIs and web services, insuring that test cases are automated, and hopefully starting to enable continuous delivery. Hopefully you have the architectural practices that recognize build once, leverage.

Web Services 167

Web Services Software Development Big Data Insurance 167

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 30, 2014

'CIOs can use business partnerships to achieve more Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job you are faced with a double challenge : despite the importance of information technology you have a limited budget and you have limited resources. This means that in order to get everything done that the rest of the company is expecting you to do, you are going to have to get creative.

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CTOvision

JULY 30, 2014

'By Eugene Borukhovich. With U.S. agencies mandating that healthcare providers engage their consumers through patient portals, data science may be the secret weapon for physicians and health care organizations to not only comply with that mandate, but provide a level of service that bonds them to patients under their care. Combined with electronic health records (EHR), patient portals allow physicians and patients to collaborate, providing a means for patients to meaningfully participate in thei

Data 275

Data Big Data Healthcare Education 275

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2014

'Hölzle reveals company’s largest server order ever: 1,680 servers in 1999 Read More.

Google 279

Google Data Center Data 279

SPF13

JULY 30, 2014

'This presentation was given at OSCON 2014. Object Oriented (OO) programming has dominated software engineering for the last two decades. The paradigm built on powerful concepts such as Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymoprhism has been internalized by the majority of software engineers. Although Go is not OO in the strict sense, we can continue to leverage the skills we’ve honed as OO engineers to come up with simple and solid designs.

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Engineering Programming Software Software 246

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Cloud Musings

JULY 16, 2014

'The GovCloud Media Network features agency specific video playlist for registered members. Please enjoy this feature on the Army IT. Please visit the new GovCloud Network Media Library for more video content. For membership information please send request to info@govcloudnetwork.com. Video Platform Video Management Video Solutions Video Player ? Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 13, 2014

'Innovators overcome the can’ts. Quote : Merely recognizing the can’ts and addressing them in advance can help, but that’s not enough. Doubt and prior experience always creep back in, so even if you can stymie the can’ts early on, you’ll need to constantly fight the same battles throughout an innovation activity. Because while the innovation team may be on board to resist the can’ts, often others that they need data, information or assistance from haven̵

Healthcare 133

Healthcare Cloud Architecture Trends 133

The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 16, 2014

'Just like suspenders, the IT help desk may have gone out of fashion Image Credit. Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past two years, one of the biggest crazes to sweep through the world of IT has been the BYOD trend: “Bring Your Own Device” (to work).The thinking is that workers have been purchasing and using such sophisticated electronic devices in their personal lives and because of the importance of information technology it no longer really made sense for

Mobile 170

Mobile Fashion Company Cloud 170

CTOvision

JULY 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. Editor’s note: The interview below first ran in our Analyst One site.-bg. Simon Lovestone is a professor of translational neuroscience at Oxford University, and a key researcher that has been part of a decade long pursuit of insights into Alzheimer’s. In an 8 July Telegraph piece titled “ Alzheimer’s disease could be prevented after new blood test breakthrough ” Simon provides key context on research conducted at Oxford and King’s College London which shows that detectabl

Research 274

Research Big Data Analysis CTO 274

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2014

'Decides operating own data center won''t make it agile enough for ongoing digital media expansion Read More.

Data Center 277

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SPF13

JULY 23, 2014

'This presentation was given at OSCON 2014. This presentation will give developers an introduction and practical experience of using MongoDB with the Go language. MongoDB Chief Developer Advocate & Gopher Steve Francia presents plainly what you need to know about using MongoDB with Go. As an emerging language Go is able to start fresh without years of relational database dependencies.

Data 221

Data Storage Development Applications 221

Cloud Musings

JULY 28, 2014

'So you won your first Government Contract… Congratulations! Among the new issues you will need to consider, your accounting systems, both practices and technology, will need to pass muster with Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) auditors. This will require a combination of internal processes and controls. Your accounting system will need to properly delineate direct and indirect costs, must properly pool indirect costs, and must properly handle unallowable costs.

Training 131

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 3, 2014

'I recently ran across a survey titled “ Big Data’s Biggest Role – Aligning the CMO & CIO ” that was put together by the CMO Council and SAS. The survey, which contained responses from 237 marketing and 211 IT executives, has some very interesting results. A few of the highlights from the survey: 85% of respondents believe the relationship between the CMO and the CIO is critical to the execution of customer focused strategies. 51% of IT executives and 40% of marketing

Big Data 133

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 23, 2014

'If only picking the right cloud vendor was this easy… Image Credit. Face it, we are all going to move our company’s IT applications into the cloud eventually. The importance of information technology demands that we do this. Just exactly where that cloud is going to be located and who will be running it for us is another question. What questions does a CIO need to ask when you are trying to select the right cloud vendor for your company?

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Disaster Recovery Cloud Applications Company 138

CTOvision

JULY 15, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. Reflecting the increasing attention paid to information security by many Americans, Pew Research recently conducted a large study, “ Net Threats ”, to identify important trends among technology experts’ opinions and predictions regarding the future of digital security. The study targeted thousands of Internet experts to measure their thoughts and concerns about the future of the Internet.

.Net 272

.Net Government Big Data Trends 272

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 2, 2014

'Consortium formed to promote 25 GbE and 50 GbE connectivity between servers and top-of-rack switches Read More.

Network 277

Network Google Microsoft Cloud 277

SPF13

JULY 20, 2014

'This presentation was given as a Workshop at OSCON 2014. Description. New to Go? This tutorial will give developers an introduction and practical experience in building applications with the Go language. Gopher Steve Francia, Author of Hugo , Cobra , and many other popular Go packages breaks it down step by step as you build your own full featured Go application.

Licensing 202

Licensing .Net Applications Government 202

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The Investing Edge

JULY 17, 2014

'Ascent portfolio company StrikeIron was acquired by Informatica last month in what was a rewarding and positive outcome for all. Having worked closely with the company over the past seven years, I’d like to share my perspective on what the company accomplished over that period, and why it became an attractive target for acquisition. Based outside Durham, NC, StrikeIron had an early vision for how data would be shared via web services and incorporated into live web applications.

Data 121

Data Web Services Applications Cloud 121

Eric D. Brown

JULY 10, 2014

'If you spend any time reading about big data, you’ll find that most articles, blogs and stories refer to big data as a way to generate revenue. Now, most times you won’t see the word “revenue” used but you’ll see plenty of references to ‘clients’, ‘customers’, ‘new products’ and the like.

Big Data 124

Big Data Data Data Center Examples 124

A CIO's Voice

JULY 9, 2014

'A basic requirement for entry into senior roles within the Federal Government you must provide evidence of progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability. The information below was taken from the USAJobs.gov website. Every leader, whether or not they are looking for a job in government should be able to answer these questions.

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CTOvision

JULY 24, 2014

'By Shannon Perry. The uproar surrounding last year’s data breach at Target Corporation did more than simply tarnish Target’s reputation. The breach hit the company’s bottom line – and hit it hard. In its 4 th quarter (the period in which the breach was exposed), Target’s profits declined by hundreds of millions of dollars, compared with the same period from 2012.

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