CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

With new technology, come new problems. Oft times, with the increasing demand for the latest and greatest tech, security is more of an after thought. What has been a consistent theme is developing the next best technology, and then figuring out how to protect it. Before the tests are run to find the gaps, a hacker already knows how to exploit the tech in every way possible.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The process to select a good data center has to involve not only the physical elements of the facility but the workload to be delivered as well. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

CIOs need to start to consider the needs of disabled workers Image Credit: Leo Reynolds. CIOs need to understand that the environment in which their company operates is changing. Two important things are happening at the same time. The first is that a lot of us are becoming older. As we age, things like mobility and vision start to degrade and this means that we are starting to become more and more like disabled users and coworkers.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

There are many product owners that understand agile practices, enjoy collaborating with technologists and leverage data to make sound prioritization choices. But if you've practiced agile long enough you've probably experienced a dark product owner who's exhibited some of the bad behaviors of product owners that I posted a couple of months ago. At the extreme, these product owners only care.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Is your company struggling with the idea of using “cloud hosting” in order to save money? Truth be known, using cost savings as the primary reason for moving to cloud will almost guarantee failure. Some reasons that typically lead to cloud computing costing more include: Building and migrating to a private cloud, which will almost always cost more than staying in a traditional data center; Migrating legacy applications that weren’t designed to operate in a virtualized environment or are tied to

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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If there's one thing that can strike terror into a CIO's heart, it's the security implications of the cloud. If there's another, it's the "bring your own" technology trend. Combine the two, and you've got the motivation behind IBM's new Cloud Security Enforcer. Thanks to having set up used a private email server while U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has become a poster child for "Shadow IT," or the phenomenon by which employees bring their own technologies into the workplace, but there'

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Being a successful leader has nothing to do with a job title and everything to do with the choices we make that lead to earning respect and trust from those around us. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

CIOs Need To Plan For Who Comes Next Image Credit: Xiaojun Deng. Wow – it sure was hard to get the CIO job. Just think for a moment about all of the various positions you had to rise through in order to finally obtain the top spot in IT. You do realize that you are not the last CIO that your company is ever going to have – because of the importance of information technology there will be others who follow behind you.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Take a look around and you'll find plenty of articles on Digital Transformation by the media, consulting services, and software companies. A recent articles by Steven Andriole suggest that it is more than just business process re-engineering while Scott Anthony sites examples of one Bank CEO deciding to lead by example and learned to code a mobile app.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

As a business communications tool, email is the dominant option, and many corporations have policies that allow the use of personal email on corporate computers. In a recent Adobe Systems commissioned online survey of 400 U.S. white-collar, adult workers, more than 90 percent of them admitted checking personal emails at work. The workers questioned in the poll estimated they spend 6.3 hours a day checking emails, with 3.2 hours devoted to work emails and 3.1 hours to personal messages.

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As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

AWS re:Invent is just over one week away—as I prepare to head to Vegas, I’m pumped up about the chance to interact with AWS-powered startups from around the world. One of my favorite parts of the week is being able to host three startup-focused sessions Thursday afternoon: The Startup Scene in 2016: a Visionary Panel [Thursday, 2:45PM]. In this session, I’ll moderate a diverse panel of technology experts who’ll discuss emerging trends all startups should be aware of, including how local governme

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

The DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is playing an increasingly important role in collaborating across multiple sectors of the economy and across government in sharing important advisories and alerts. The FBI led Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is playing an increasingly important role in helping consumers and victims of fraud know the reality of the threats facing them from cyberspace.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Your applications, your users, and your business all rely on your data center and your cloud architecture. Here are a few good ways to optimize these critical resources. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In order to hold on to their jobs, CIOs need to know how to not get fired. Image Credit: Bill Alldredge. During my career, I’ve been fired twice. I can tell you from personal experience, it’s never a good feeling. As CIO, you have a highly visible position within the company and there is a lot riding on you. If you are not able to deliver what the company needs from you, there is a very good chance they are going to end up getting rid of you and replacing you with someone who can do

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

About four months ago, I attended a Gartner dinner and received a copy of The Wolf in CIO's Clothing from author Tina Nunno. I took the quiz right away (won't tell you my scoring, but let's just say I am not a lamb) but it's taken me awhile to finally read the book. If you're a CIO or aspire to be one, I suggest you download a copy. It's a quick read packed with key insights on managing.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Where is your data right now? The explosion of cloud computing and consumer IT means that your data, as well as data about you, can be virtually anywhere. Having your data and the data about you virtually everywhere is, in fact, key to the cloud computing business model. This means that traditional security concepts that focus in depth on infrastructure defense no longer apply.

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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

The Apple watchOS 2 release date is here. You can finally download the real thing, after the GM build was pulled due to unspecified bugginess. The new update adds native apps, new faces, a sideways "nightstand" mode, and a few other features. Apparently, it also tells the time. But don't be in a hurry, K? Reports from early installers say it's slow to update.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

On 26 August 2015 the Department of Defense (DoD) published a new rule entitled the "Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Network Penetration Reporting and Contracting for Cloud Services (DFARS Case 2013-D018). You can read the details of this new rule here: Download “DoD Rules On Protecting Data In Contractor Systems” 26-Aug-Federal-Registrar-New-DoD-Rules-For-Cyber.pdf – Downloaded 8 times – 290 kB.

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Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Phoenix utility and BaseLayer combine to create first-ever technology that taps directly into the electrical grid to power data centers, eliminating the need for generators. Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

What is more important to a CIO: costs or profits? Image Credit: Susy Morris. Here’s a quick question for you: what is more important for a CIO to do – cut costs or boost revenues? I think that it’s fair to say that because of the importance of information technology, we are called on to do both at the same time; however, they can’t both be of equal value.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been working closely with the startup community in London, and Europe, since we launched back in 2006. We have grown substantially in that time and today more than two thirds of the UK’s startups with valuations of over a billion dollars , including Skyscanner, JustEat, Powa, Fanduel and Shazam, are all leveraging our platform to deliver innovative services to customers around the world.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The new issue of IEEE Cloud Computing is now available! This special issue looks at how to balance privacy with legitimate surveillance and lawful data access. Some of the specific areas covered are: Balancing Privacy and Surveillance in the Cloud; Data Flow Management and Compliance in Cloud Computing; Anonymous Credential-Based Access Control Scheme for Clouds; and End-to-End Privacy for Open Big Data Markets.

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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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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory identity management platform now allows businesses to authenticate customers using popular consumer applications, such as Facebook and Google’s suite of services. + MORE AT NETWORK WORLD : 11 Reasons you should upgrade to iPhone 6s +. Research firm Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant named Azure AD one of the leading products for businesses to verify the identity of their employees.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The video at this link and embedded below starts with a great question: What is the difference between data governance and big data governance? Well we all know that the theory should be that there should be no difference. But the reality is that Hadoop and Spark and the many new approaches around those platforms require more thought and actions to optimize data governance.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

About one year ago, DuPont Fabros Technology, whose business is building massive data centers and leasing wholesale space to companies on a long-term basis, brought online its biggest facility yet: ACC7 in Ashburn, Virginia.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In my earlier post on using Docker Machine with OpenStack, I talked about combining technologies in a “provider/consumer” model. In this post, I’m going to talk about creating this provider/consumer model using a different combination of technologies: OpenStack as the infrastructure provider and Vagrant for consuming that infrastructure. If you’re unfamiliar with Vagrant, I recommend you first read this introduction to Vagrant (after that you can dig into all the other Vagrant-tagged posts ).

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

A dynamic mind takes more time to self-reflect, not less. Everything is composed of energy, even our thoughts, and feelings. We can't see oxygen, but it is essential to life. We can't see our thoughts and feelings, but only the effect thoughts and feelings have an impact on our life on a daily basis. The result of all these activities is the mind: without the brain, there can be no individual mind, yet it is conceivable that the brain produces something that is greater than itself, and this is t

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

An artist who defies all boundaries, John Mayer has won seven Grammy Awards and sold more than 17 million albums worldwide. The singer, songwriter and guitarist’s skills have been widely acknowledged by some of the world’s greatest musicians. Mayer has collaborated with an extraordinary range of artists from the worlds of rock, blues, hip-hop, jazz, and country including Eric Clapton, BB King, Buddy Guy, Dixie Chicks, Jay Z, Alicia Keys and many more.

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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As BYOD hangs on as an acceptable way to arm your employees with their own technology, companies need to make sure that employees can work seamlessly on those devices. One way to do that – and give employers some control of where their data goes – is through enterprise apps.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Look at any science-fiction vision of our technological future and you’ll find a world dominated by artificial intelligence. Some of these visions may go for the more dystopian angle, where humanity has been displaced by self-aware robots that now rule the world. Other, more optimistic views look at AI as a great benefit to our species, helping us in exploration and furthering the advances of scientific endeavors.

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