CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2015

The list below is an update to our reference of "Cyber Security Wake-Up Calls." What does it take to be on the list? Generally each of the events below was so significant policy makers were loudly proclaiming to all who would listen that they were a wake-up call. This means there are reflections in public policy documents, speeches and the press that cite leaders using the phrase.

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Policies Government Security Report 328

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JUNE 4, 2015

Given as a keynote at LinuxCon + CloudOpen Japan 2015. Linux has become the foundation for infrastructure everywhere as it defined application portability from the desktop to the phone and from to the data center to the cloud. As applications become increasingly distributed in nature, the Docker platform serves as the cornerstone of Linux’s evolution solidifying the dominance of Linux today and into tomorrow.

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Operating Systems System Disaster Recovery Case Study 219

Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 25, 2015

Deploying DC power distribution in the data center instead of using the traditional AC design is one way to reduce power loss, eliminate unnecessary conversions and, ultimately, lower energy costs. Read More.

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Data Center Energy Data Industry 214

Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 14, 2015

Does the IT department and the applications development team have to own and lead all application development efforts? Over my last couple of posts, I've been exploring how Citizen Developers - developers using light weight, often low code development platforms can help their business functions automate tasks, analyze data, develop knowledge repositories, and connect data across applications.

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Development Applications Data Software Development 211

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JUNE 10, 2015

More is always better right? More feedback from clients can help you improve your service. More money can help you build better products and teams. More data can help you make better decisions. Better resolution can make your photos better. More is always better isn’t it? Well. No. More isn’t always better. Seth Godin recently said that “Too much resolution stops giving you information and becomes merely noise, which actually gets in the way of the accuracy you seek.” T

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 17, 2015

CIOs need to know how to use their soft skills to connect with their department Image Credit: aiesecgermany. Nobody ever told you that being the CIO was going to be easy. What they also failed to tell you was just exactly how hard it was going to be! Sure, you have the challenge of mastering the importance of information technology and trying to stay on top of all of the changes that are going on in the world of IT, but there’s more to this job than just that.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

by Melvin Greer Business Intelligence has matured as a core competency necessary to sustain competitive advantage. Organizations of every size and industry are generating valuable data with each interaction, and that data can be captured, analyzed, and turned into business insight. These organizations are using analytics features like dashboards , advanced visualization , data warehousing , and other technologies to achieve their strategic business objectives.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 16, 2015

Ahead of a grand opening next week, Forsythe Data Centers announced its 220,000 square foot data center has achieved Uptime Institute Tier III Certification for Constructed Facility Read More.

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Data Center Construction Data 208

Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 21, 2015

If you're practicing agile development without QA team members, a reasonably defined testing process, and sufficient criteria to help define "done", then at some point your development process will go off the cliff of complexity. That's right. No QA, off the cliff you go without a parachute. The size of your development team, the number of technologies used in the development stack, and the.

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 24, 2015

Big data has been a popular topic over the last few years. Many organizations have been studying big data systems and processes as well as the science behind capturing, storing, analyzing and using large amounts of data within their businesses. Many organizations that I’ve worked with over the years have done a very thorough job of understanding the technology requirements of big data.

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Big Data Data Analysis Storage 175

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 24, 2015

CIOs need to find ways to teach their department staff new skills Image Credit: Peter Dutton. Staffing an IT department is easily a full-time job in of itself. As the person with the CIO job, you’ve probably already realized this. However, in addition to staying on top of the importance of information technology, just filling all of the open spots in your IT department is not the only task that you have to accomplish.

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CTOvision

JUNE 1, 2015

The Register is reporting that badly configured software, installed incorrectly, is responsible for the crash of an Airbus A400M transport plane. Engine control software, installed wrong, was to blame. The A400M crashed just after takeoff on its first real production test flight, 9 May near Seville's San Pablo Airport, killing four. For the initial report on the software see: The Register.

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Transportation Software Software Engineering 271

All Things Distributed

JUNE 25, 2015

Today, Amazon announced the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) , a collection of self-service APIs and tools that make it fast and easy for developers to create new voice-driven capabilities for Alexa. With a few lines of code, developers can easily integrate existing web services with Alexa or, in just a few hours, they can build entirely new experiences designed around voice.

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Development Resources Web Services Cloud 127

Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 4, 2015

Having a formal data protection plan and knowing the cloud's limitations are keys to successfully storing files offsite and recovering data as quickly as possible. Read More.

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Cloud Data Industry 204

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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

JUNE 7, 2015

Mile wide spread sheets. String parsers that break when unrecognized characters are passed to it. Rapid fire queries that kill database performance. Forms that permit SQL injection. Hundreds or thousands of undocumented disparate applications that don't share data or design patterns. User experiences that have no consistency. Is that what goes through your mind when you hear the words Citizen.

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Development Applications Data Software Development 158

Eric D. Brown

JUNE 3, 2015

If you aren’t familiar with the term “normalcy bias”, here’s a quick definition : Normalcy bias is…the phenomenon of disbelieving one’s situation when faced with grave and imminent danger and/or catastrophe. As in overfocusing on the actual phenomenon instead of taking evasive action, a state of paralysis. Another way to think about normalcy bias is the often used term in project management circles of ‘analysis paralysis.’ A much simpler way to th

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Examples Company Project Management Analysis 143

The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 3, 2015

All too often, IT projects end up like this Image Credit: Dr. Jim. I’m often puzzled by the fact that most IT departments do a very good job of the day-to-day things that we are asked to do. I mean, there is a lot that goes on in an IT department each and every day and somehow we seem to be able to get it all done. However, when it comes time to do a large IT project for some mysterious reason, things seem to fall apart which is odd considering the importance of information technology.

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CTOvision

JUNE 24, 2015

Are you looking for ideas on how to improve the security of federal systems? Cognitio’s founders have been responsible for guarding some of the world’s hardest-to-penetrate networks, including the classified systems that lets case officers in hostile countries communicate with headquarters in the United States, and the networks that provide real-time information to battlefield commanders so they can help save lives in conflict zones.

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Security Network Government System 269

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 30, 2015

Everyone from pre-teens to granddads, does social media today. With Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and many newer ways to stay in the know popping up every day, picking the right platform can be a difficult task. While the personal value of this modern convenience seems obvious to most, the task of proving the channel’s worth to a business can be very challenging.

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Small Business Media Social Dell 121

Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 18, 2015

Data center administrators are growing increasingly concerned around their own capabilities around redundancy and uptime. Learn about a new business reality: Uptime is revenue. Read More.

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Data Center Data 200

Virtualized Greek

JUNE 10, 2015

Nutanix CEO’s response to VMware’s vSphere support concerns is interesting. One of the more interesting battles in enterprise tech has been the back and forth between Nutanix and VMware. Most recently VMware had gotten a dig in on Nutanix’ end ([link] CEO's response to VMware's vSphere support concerns is interesting. One of the more interesting battles in enterprise tech has been the back and forth between Nutanix ([link] and VMware ([link] Most recently VMware had gotten a dig ([li

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Applications Vmware Comparison Licensing 71

Storage IO Blog

JUNE 28, 2015

Back in early May I was invited by EMC to attend EMCworld 2015 which included both the public sessions, as well as several NDA based discussions. Keep in mind that there is the known, there is the unknown (or assumed or speculated) and in between there are NDA’s, nuff said on that. EMC covered my hotel and registration costs to attend the event in Las Vegas (thanks EMC, that’s a disclosure btw ;) and here is a synopsis of various EMCworld 2015 announcements.

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Storage Hotels Open Source Travel 55

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 10, 2015

Online worker complaints have to be handled carefully by CIOs Image Credit: Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL). As the person with the CIO job, how can you tell if you are doing a good job? Sure, there should be all of the standard business indicators – your IT budget is operating within its budget, you are meeting the needs of the rest of the company, the network is secure, etc.

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Media Social Policies Budget 149

CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2015

There’s a closer relationship between big data and the IoT than most people realize – almost as if they were made for one another. See for yourself. . Today, we’re going to talk about the Internet of Things and Big Data. Bear with me here. This isn’t going to be some vague, half-cocked article bogged down by buzzwords and vagaries. Instead, what we’re going to do is take a close look at both technologies - what they actually are and what they actually do - in regards to how they’re changing en

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 8, 2015

Would you even hire an architect that highlighted hand drawn diagrams and spreadsheets as their design tools of choice? Of course you wouldn’t. Not using computing aided design (CAD) as a primary architectural tool today is just laughable. So why do multimillion dollar companies invest millions into building and deploying cloud computing solutions that are basically architected using not much more than diagrams, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations?

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Cloud Tools Software Software 121

Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 15, 2015

IBM believes Spark is the most significant open source project of the next decade. It's backing the statement up by committing thousands of researchers and donating machine learning technology to Apache Spark. Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 19, 2015

I’ve decided that it’s time to say “see you later” to virtualizedgeek.com. I’ll get right to it. I’m no longer a virtualization geek, and the brand no longer fits my career trajectory. I haven’t touched a production system since November.

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CTOvision

JUNE 24, 2015

In late 2014, Hortonworks and Oracle teamed up to provide comprehensive data integration capabilities and technologies. Together, they deliver on the promise of big data for customers of all sizes and scale. Oracle and Hortonworks are continuing to work together to bring the latest ETL and real-time transactional data streaming capabilities to the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP).

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Big Data Oracle Data Authentication 252

CTOvision

JUNE 23, 2015

With the public inundated with reports of an alarming number of computer hacks, the question in everyone’s mind is “what is next?” The aviation industry was the center of media attention when Chris Roberts, a controversial computer researcher, was detained by FBI agents after boasting that he had hacked systems while a passenger and took control of key aircraft systems.

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Security Airlines Industry Network 249

CTOvision

JUNE 25, 2015

Verisign's Q1 2015 DDoS Trends Report reveals some interesting trends we should all be aware of. The report captures analysis and insights from Verisign including information derived from mitigations enacted on behalf of, and with cooperation with, customers of Verisign's DDoS Protection Services. Key contributing analysts include the security research team at Verisign’s iDefense.

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Trends Report Analysis Industry 245

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