CTOvision

OCTOBER 9, 2015

From assessing the effectiveness of your current operation and efforts to ensuring that your business has a more complete understanding of the needs of its customers or clients, data aggregation and analysis services have the potential to change the way that merchants and retailers operate in today's increasingly digital marketplace. The greater insight and understanding that may be obtained by collating and analyzing large blocks of data has the potential to be a real game changer, one that can

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 23, 2015

It takes a thief to catch a thief: Microsoft owns 10 of the world's largest botnets Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 22, 2015

When you read about big data and/or data analytics projects and systems, it is rare that you also read bout communicating the outcome of those projects. Without the ability to communicate the results of any analysis to the broader business, most big data / analytics projects are doomed to mediocrity…or even failure. The quantitative mind is a great one.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 19, 2015

My first step in looking at an existing business through a digital lens is to ask two questions about how a startup might disrupt it by creating a competing digital business. A startup does not have sunk investments, legacy thinking, and existing practices that need to transform so if you can "blue sky" what would a startup do you should get some insights on what you need to become through a.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Hadoop is an open source database that has a lot of CIOs excited Image Credit: If there is one IT buzzword that gets everyone excited right now, then it’s “Big Data” The idea behind Big Data is that with the right set of tools, companies can finally take a look at all of the data that they collect from multiple streams and pull it together in order to answer important business questions.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2015

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology : “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management.” While this definition is broadly accepted and has, in fact, been my adopted standard for years, it only describes technical aspects of cloud computing.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Social network giant continues expanding capacity with new East Coast facility Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’m currently reading Brett Steenbarger’s “ Trading Psychology 2.0: From Best Practices to Best Processes.” I’m a fan of Dr. Steenbarger’s work and bought his new book as soon as it was released. While this book is targeted at traders and investors, there’s a great deal of knowledge that can be gleaned from it that can be applied to many other aspects of your personal life as well as business.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Gartner filled their opening keynote with lots of advice for the Digital CIO. As I've been saying on this blog for some time (see posts on agile thinking, cultural practices, and program management) digital transformation is not a bunch of business driven projects that have a beginning and an end. Transformation requires significant culture changes in how enterprises work internally, how they.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2015

It’s not always clear when there is an IP issue at stake Image Credit: E Theriot. As CIOs we tend to focus on the immediate problems that are in front of us. These include such things as growing the number of servers that the company is using, picking the right data center, and implementing yet another company wide application. However, it turns out that there is an issue that may be lurking in the background that we really should be spending some time on: IP issues.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2015

On Tuesday, October 6 th , the European Court of Justice (ECJ), invalidated the U.S./EU Safe Harbor Framework. This framework, in place since 2000, gave blanket permission to data transfers from the European Union to the United States. The ruling means that national data protection authorities can now review such data transfers on an individual basis.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 12, 2015

CTOvision has just released our latest white paper projecting the future of seven major trends in information technology. You can remember these seven major IT megatrends by the mnemonic acronym Cambric. Cambric stands for: C loud Computing. A rtificial Intelligence. M obility. B ig Data. R obotics. I nternet of Things. C yberSecurity. Advances in these seven technologies are closely interrelated.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Breaks ground on future site of its second massive data center campus in Ashburn Read More.

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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Tim Cook, top Apple chef, talks turkey: At the WSJD conflab, Cook was interviewed by Gerry Baker, who grilled him about many and various savory topics. F'rinstance: Watch sales figures (or lack of them), Music momentum, televisual hobbies (and Apple TV 4 release date), iPhone déjà vu, fractious carrier relationships, Car talk, the demands of the NSA and GCHQ, and Apple's corporate activism.

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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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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 27, 2015

"Digital Transformation is about looking at the business strategy through the lens of technical capabilities and how that changes how you are operating and generating revenues"- Isaac Sacolick Enabling Digital Transformation The diagram above is my digital lens. On the right side you'll see some of the new technologies that enable digital transformation while on the left side you'll.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Just exactly how well do the CIO and CMO get along? Image Credit: Melissa. Making a company be successful is tough work. For this to happen, it’s going to take a great deal of work on everyone’s part and, tougher yet, everyone is going to have to find ways to work together. As a CIO this means that you are going to find yourself having to work with the company’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Cybersecurity is top of mind for corporations around the world. The quantity of recent data breaches and the dollar loss associated with some of them indicates either an underinvestment in cybersecurity or a failure to properly invest in people, security training or technology. While breaches are very costly to the companies concerned, they also represent major consequences for individual privacy and a business’s short-term and long-term viability.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 26, 2015

I'm currently researching big data project management in order to better understand what makes big data projects different from other tech related projects. So far I've interviewed more than a dozen government, private sector, and academic professionals, all of them experienced in managing data intensive projects. What I'm finding is that professionals with experience managing such projects believe that big data projects do share characteristics with other types of projects.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Partners with investors to form Supernap International Read More.

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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has been around for years in U.S. workplaces and even though it's become a fixture at many companies, some IT shops are still coming to grips with it. In hard numbers, the prevalence of BYOD in the workplace is difficult to measure. Researchers offer a wide variety of statistics. Research firm Strategy Analytics, for example, said three-quarters of business smartphones and tablets shipped in the second quarter in North America were slated to wind up in the

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 15, 2015

How important is managing culture change in a digital transformation? By the size of the "packed room" at Gartner's session on "How to create a culture that is ready for anything", at least CIO have recognized how critical it is to either own or be a part of an organization's cultural changes. Here are some highlights from this and other sessions related to cultural changes: Culture change.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Younger workers tend to make more mistakes Image Credit: Hussain Isa Alderazi. As the person in the CIO position, I’m pretty sure that by now you’ve come to realize that not all of the workers at your company are the same. It turns out that some of these workers need a little bit of extra help from your IT department. You might instinctively think that I’m talking about the company’s older workers.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

One cloud does not fit all organizations. That’s true whether it is a public or private cloud. A hybrid cloud option allows your business to create a custom solution that fits your organizational needs. However, there are always questions with new solutions. We reached out to industry thought leaders to answer some of the marketplace’s most pressing questions on hybrid cloud.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Editor's note: In this post, AIIM ’s CEO John Mancini urges enterprises to take a serious look at mobile ECM as their window on content. -bg. Enterprises understand that there is a natural synergy between mobile services and mobile content. Yet despite this, many are being slow at putting effective mobile programs in place to satisfy the 24/7 connected business world.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Latest State of the Data Center Industry survey results show hunger for automation and cloud, DCIM, load balancing, and more Read More.

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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

OCTOBER 19, 2015

During the week of October 5th I had an opportunity to attend the AWS re:Invent 2015 conference in Las Vegas , of all places. As someone who has built an entire career on putting together custom application server software, I should be the last one to get excited about server-less applications. Just like Salesforce’s “no software,” Amazon’s “server-less software” mantra is about a world where application development is not limited by IT, software to install and servers to manage.

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Mick's IT Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Recently, we had a software deployment that required.Net Framework 4.5.2. I deployed the.Net update via SCCM 2012 Software Updates. Within a day, it showed most all systems were now compliant. We were ready to begin testing the deployment of the application upgrade. My colleague came back to me the next day and said the app would not install because 4.5.2 was missing.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2015

Grow Your CIO Career. Just becoming your company’s CIO is not enough. Once you reach this lofty point, you are going to have to take on the responsibility of growing your career so that it can truly become the challenging opportunity that you’ve been seeking. The good news is that this can be done. The bad news is that it’s never easy.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Mobility and cloud computing have combined to obliterate any so-called network security perimeter. Corporate data has now been let loose to roam in a world of cyber thieves, manipulators and untrusted infrastructure. What is a security professional to do? According to Bill Odell, the Dell Vice President of Marketing for Endpoint Device Management , you need to protect the enterprise front door.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 31, 2015

Ready Player One is great science fiction set in the very near future. It is well done drama that leverages totally realistic visions of what technology is rapidly evolving to. Imagine a world where virtual reality and global connectivity enables universal access to high quality education. Incredible. Awesome. And achievable by us if we put our minds to it.

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