September, 2014

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Identity and Access Management: Hot or Not?

CTOvision

'By Dean Wiech. Identity and access management (IAM) is increasingly being deployed within organizations across multiple sectors as they recognize that a progressive approach to IAM is crucial for their companies. Though not yet mature, the IAM market continues to grow because of a number of influences and developments. Some of the developments include, among others, cloud computing, web solutions, information governance and BYOD.

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Apple Success Isn't About Innovation

CIO Musings

'On September 9th 2014 Apple made several major announcements in a well choreographed event in California. Consumer electronic companies all over the fruited plain were heard to say as one. Why didn''t we think of that? So, why is that? Why does Apple make such stunning products that draw us like moths to the back-porch light? There were people camping out at the Apple flagship store a week before the announcement.

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Future Data Center Trends

Data Center Knowledge

'The data center of the future is the one you don’t own, according to Hector Diaz who will moderate a panel discussion on The Future of the Data Center at Orlando Data Center World. Read More.

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Evangelism is NOT Sales

SPF13

'I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is trying to better understand the role technical evangelism could play within his company. Ten minutes into our conversation he said, “so evangelism is pretty much rogue sales” Internally I cringed. I politely corrected him that the two could not be further apart.

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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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Five Data Management Practices IT Needs to Better Support Data Driven Organizations

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Last week, I posted 5 Agile Leadership Practices Where CIO Can Help Data Scientists to provide solutions to messy data, data landfills, data silos, and other outdated data practices that lead to data issues. That post covered cultural practices and organizational principles that make agile teams and organizations successful and how to transfer them to a data science or analytics practice.

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The CIO Has To Know What Innovation Really Looks Like

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Knowing what you are looking for is the key to finding innovation Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job, you are probably under a lot of pressure to have your IT department be more innovative. CEOs everywhere are telling the press that in order for their company to be successful, innovation is going to have to happen within the company. This is all fine and good, I mean who doesn’t want to be more innovative?

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Grounding the Cloud: Basics and Brokerage

Cloud Musings

'" Picture Ben Franklin attempting to harness energy from a lightning-filled sky. The key tied to his kite was the middleman between electricity and the ground. This book details how using the cloud can be your key to finding or enhancing success." Understanding cloud computing is hard enough. Cloud service brokerage, however, is the way forward for just about any enterprise.

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Data Center Commissioning: What’s the Best Approach?

Data Center Knowledge

'Data center commissioning is important to ensure a mission critical facility can support its workload as anticipated. Chris Crosby, founder and CEO of Compass Datacenters, will present on "Understanding Data Center Commissioning" at the Orlando Data Center World in October. Read More.

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Announcing the October B2B IT Forum on the Internet of Things

The Investing Edge

'Industry analysts have predicted 26 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2020, creating a several trillion dollar market in Internet of Things (IoT) goods and services. With claims that this sector could usher in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it’s important to look beyond the hype and better define the opportunities and challenges presented by IoT.

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What Technologies Work Best for Decentralized Data Scientists?

Social, Agile and Transformation

'If data scientists, analysts, quants, or BI specialists are in a centralized department, then that group can staff and train its members to support one or more technologies based on business need. Technologies such as data processing, analytics, statistics, visualization, or data mining are good examples. But what happens when these resources are scattered across multiple departments.

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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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How Can CIOs Find The Data Scientists That They Need?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Where can CIOs find the data scientists that they need? Image Credit. Welcome to the era of big data. Now just exactly who is going to be working on all of that data? Now that everyone knows about the importance of information technology, it turns out that it takes a very special set of IT skills to get a large data set to tell your company the story that you want to hear.

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5 Facts about Datacenters Every Administrator Should Know

CTOvision

'By Natalie Lehrer. Being knowledgeable about datacenter basics will help you solidify your technical career. Datacenters large and small operate on a certain set of principles that can be easily adhered to in order to make the most of your time. Any downtime is unacceptable in many business leaders’ eyes therefore building out or leasing reliable datacenter infrastructure is the key to being successful in your technical endeavors.

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Cloud Services Brokerage: Adding Trust and Oversight to Complex Cloud Deals

Cloud Musings

'According to the Gartner IT Glossary, "Cloud services brokerage (CSB) is an IT role and business model in which a company or other entity adds value to one or more (public or private) cloud services on behalf of one or more consumers of that service via three primary roles including aggregation, integration and customization brokerage". The value of these brokerage services are fueling a major debate in industry and this month in BriefingsDirect, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor So

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NSA Exploring Use of Mineral Oil to Cool its Servers

Data Center Knowledge

'The agency has been testing a novel cooling technology for its massive data centers, dunking servers in tanks of dielectric coolant fluid similar to mineral oil. Read More.

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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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Thinking About Intel Rack-Scale Architecture

Scott Lowe

'You may have heard of Intel Rack-Scale Architecture (RSA), a new approach to designing data center hardware. This is an idea that was discussed extensively a couple of weeks ago at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco, which I had the opportunity to attend. (Disclaimer: Intel paid my travel and hotel expenses to attend IDF.). Of course, IDF 2014 wasn’t the first time I’d heard of Intel RSA; it was also discussed last year.

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Killing Bad Data Practices - Acknowledging The Problem is Half The Battle

Social, Agile and Transformation

'I posted on LinkedIn earlier this week The Big Data Challenges All Organizations Face summing some symptoms and solutions to siloed databases and ungoverned data practices. If you work on data, manage the databases, or rely on it to make decisions then you probably understand bad data issues and can relate to some of the symptoms: Do you email spreadsheets between coworkers to edit and.

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Why I quit my job before having a new one

Virtualized Greek

'I did something last week I would never recommend someone else does; I quit my job without having another one lined up. I don’t mean I quit a job where the company is unethical, and I had a moral obligation.

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Federal Cyber Security Practitioners: FedCyber is 5 Nov 2014

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. FedCyber is an annual cybersecurity event hosted by Matt Devost & Bob Gourley that brings together several hundred attendees to advance the dialogue on critical enterprise and federal government challenges. The video at this link and embedded below captures a recap of the 2013 FedCyber: This year we really want to see you there.

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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 Clinique & GovCloud Network Deliver On Affordable Cloud Certification

Cloud Musings

'In August, GovCloud Network and Tech Equity Ltd promised to deliver cloud education and training on a global basis. Today the companies are making good on that promise by announcing a Cloud Certification Best Practices Program for the European and North American markets. Building upon the Cloud Clinique database of over 7,500 cloud best practice concepts across 18 separate domains, certified cloud practitioners and trainers will now be delivering high quality cloud computing education in a affo

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The Bitcoin Arms Race Shifts to the Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'The Bitcoin technology arms race is shifting from the processor to the data center, with hardware vendors like GAW Miners pointing their businesses towards the cloud. Read More.

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IDF 2014: Bare Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization

Scott Lowe

'This is a live blog of session DATS004, titled “Bare-Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.” The speaker is Nicholas Weaver (yes, that Nick Weaver, who now works at Intel). Weaver starts his presentation by talking about “how we got here”, discussing the various technological shifts that have affected the computing landscape over the years.

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5 Agile Leadership Practices Where CIOs Can Help Data Scientists

Social, Agile and Transformation

'I''ve compiled a number of posts on data landfills and other bad data practices and have made a commitment, at least on Social, Agile, and Transformation to begin providing solutions. I''ve always felt that other disciplines would benefit from well established technology practices.

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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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Docker for Smarties (e.g. non-dummies) from VMworld 2014

Storage IO Blog

'Docker is a new way of abstracting applications and the data infrastructures (servers, storage, networking, hardware) they run on using containers. Check out this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective video podcast to get an overview of docker including hearing from a docker.com systems engineer from VMworld 2014.

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Greater Smartphone Protections are Forthcoming

CTOvision

'While Apple has made many headlines this month for the release of its new generation of the iPhone, this week the company has caused quite a stir with its latest announcement regarding its desire to enhance the encryption that protects its smartphones. In its press release , Apple asserts that it has never collaborated with a government agency from any country to create a backdoor in its products to behoove governmental surveillance.

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"Connect 2 Connect" on Cloud Computing in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania

Cloud Musings

'GovCloud Network is proud to be partnering with TechEquity and Extensia in presenting: This event is a partnership with the Ministry of Communications Science and Technology and the Tanzania National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) and is being held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 30th September to 1st October 2014. A key component of this event will be a series of ‘Advisory Clinics’ that will run throughout the summit.

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Aligning Business & Technology Strategies

Data Center Knowledge

'We talk with Derek Odegard, president and founder of CentricsIT, about aligning business and technology strategies to deliver value and ROI. Read More.

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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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Why HP and Cisco passed on VMware EVO

Virtualized Greek

'I’ve been accused of being a conspiracy theorist, and I’m sure this post won’t do anything to dispel that perception. I’m talking VMware’s EVO platform and the missing partnership between Cisco and HP. I’m sure that there is a reason.

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Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee and Symantec Found the Cyber Threat Alliance

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. In what could be a very virtuous trend, four of the cyber security industry’s leading tech vendors (Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee and Symantec) have established a consortium focused on the furtherance of the art and science of cyber threat intelligence. This alliance, started in May and expanded in September, aims to help industry entities coordinate and collaborate in new ways against the high end adversaries attacking the corporate world.

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Stand By For Reporting From the Intelligence and National Security Summit 18-19 Sep 2014 #Intelligence2014

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. For the next two days in DC over 1000 key leaders from the national security community will be converging in a dynamic examination of intelligence and national security issues at the Intelligence and National Security Summit. This event, a collaboration of the intelligence committee of AFCEA and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) is a first of its kind session that brings together over 70 national thought leaders from public, private and academic sectors to e

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Tis the Season for Wearables Releases

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. On August 28 th , Samsung and LG announced their latest generation of smartwatches in separate press releases. The Samsung report flaunts its Gear S, a smartwatch with a curved screen that measures a full two-inches long. Capabilities of the watch include providing notifications from social networking websites, GPS, improved S Health features, turn-by-turn directions, a touch keyboard, and 3G connectivity.

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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.