CTOvision

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'By Boonsri Dickinson In a world full of self-driving cars, flying drones, and other robots, daily interactions with artificial intelligence will have a profound effect on how we live our lives. Elemental video scientist Boonsri Dickinson visited Carnegie Mellon robotics pioneer Maneula Veloso to talk about the science behind her robotic creations and the many years she has spent bringing autonomous robots to life.

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CIO Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'We are hiring a ton of positions over the next few months. The jobs are posted on [link]. More information can be found there and you can apply on line. Why is Chesterfield VA a great place to work? Lots of reasons. Excellence - We have been the #1 digital county in the USA twice in the last 4 years. In 2010 we were voted as having the best county website in the nation.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

'SuperNAP 8 in Las Vegas has just become the first multi-tenant data center to earn Tier IV Constructed Facility certification, the highest rating possible under The Uptime Institute''s ratings for mission-critical reliability. Here''s an inside look at SuperNAP 8 and its design innovations.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'Sponsored by Dimension Data. I just finished reading through the Dimension Data Secure Enterprise Mobility Report.The report is a nice report on how modern organizations are thinking about and approaching strategic planning with mobility, BYOD and security in mind. A few highlights of the report where 1,622 IT decision makers were surveyed: 27% said they have a well-defined network policy for mobility. 23% said that they allowed employees to download non-corporate applications to increase produ

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'Too much data can cause serious compliance problems Image Credit. What kind of rules does your company operate under? Are there certain things that your employees (sales in particular) are not permitted to tell your customers? How can you determine if they are following the rules? How long do you have to retain your copies of all types of communication?

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SPF13

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'One of the great features of golang is that you can compile executables for many different platforms and architectures from a single machine. It’s really nice to not have to build each release of Hugo separately on a windows 32 & 64, linux 32, 64 & arm and mac machine. A few different solutions have emerged to compile go code for many platforms with ease.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'My last four posts have covered the whys and hows on establishing a CIO partnership with the CMO especially around digital marketing. The post Five Tips on Starting a Killer CIO CMO relationships covers the basics of understanding goals, drivers, and KPIs. The next post covers partnering on technology selections and proof of concepts, an area where CMOs need technical guidance and CIOs have to. cio cmo enterprise 2.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

'KnC Miner is building Bitcoin''s version of the Death Star - a 10 megawatt data center filled with high-powered computers mining for cryptocurrency. The new facility is in Boden, Sweden, just 10 miles down the road from a Facebook data center.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

'We often read anecdotal evidence of how companies and consultants are using big data to solve ‘big’ problems but it is rare that we see real world examples of the use of analytics and data to solve real-world business problems for small and midsized businesses. IBM recently reported on two examples of SMB’s using big data to better manage their business in a piece titled “ Here’s What Salame and Sequined Dresses Have in Common ”.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

'A few weeks ago I had the privilege of speaking with a number of our Citrix Service Providers at Citrix Summit in Orlando. There is no doubt in my mind that the Managed Services industry is shifting… away from commodity services (dedicated servers, websites, Exchange mailboxes) and toward more holistic, higher-value hosting and outsourcing services.

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SPF13

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'One of the great features of golang is that you can compile executables for many different platforms and architectures from a single machine. It’s really nice to be able to provide executables of Hugo for a bunch of different platforms and architectures without having to have all these different machines in a build cluster. As I’ve been working with Hugo, I’ve wanted to make the experience of cross compiling as easy and painless as possible.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: Gus is my friend and it is awesome watching his open sharing of ideas create value in the marketplace. The news in the press release below is good for us all. – bg. Former CIA CTO Gus Hunt Joins Venture Capital Firm Artis Ventures’ Board of Advisors. Hunt will assist in analyzing new enterprise investment opportunities and work with its portfolio companies, who’ll benefit from his unique experience.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

'CIOs need to help teach their company to look before going Image Credit. You might be having the best day that you’ve ever had since you accepted the CIO job and then all of sudden it hits you: what am I doing to protect the company from the risks that it faces? IT, of all departments, poses one of the biggest doorways for risk to enter your company because of the importance of information technology.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

'Google continues to pump big bucks into its data center operations, investing a massive $7.35 billion in capital expenditures in its Internet infrastructure during 2013.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'Last week I noticed this little gem over on ReadWriteWeb.com : Gartner highlights that only 8% of enterprises have actually deployed big data projects despite 64% declaring their intention to do so. That’s a big statistic. Think about it. Out of all the hype and discussions about big data, less than 10% of enterprises have actually deployed big data projects.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

'Email Marketing by Bill Rice If you want a tool to keep your Inbox cleaner, try this. Create an email filtering rule that looks for these phrases, "privacy policy", "webinar", "webcast", or "unsubscribe" and move these emails to a separate folder. I call is the "Noise" folder. You''ll be amazed how many marketing emails get pushed out of your Inbox with this simple filter allowing you to focus.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'A hybrid cloud may become the solution as the debate between public vs private cloud becomes so 2013. The industry’s experts will debate on when the hybrid clouds are and are not the be all and end all and if the infrastructure supporting the hybrid clouds really matters. As stated by IBM, “Dynamic hybrid cloud environments are harmonizing computing demands and capabilities – public and private clouds, on and off-premise clouds, and traditional IT environments.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

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Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'CIOs have to see the world differently than everyone else Image Credit. In order to be a successful CIO, you need to be able to look at the world around us differently than everyone else. All of the things that you’ll be seeing will be the same things that everyone else sees; it’s just how you interpret the things that you see that needs to be done differently.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

'After a lengthy career in the radio industry, Buddy Rizer is working closely with the data center sector in his role as Director of Economic Development in Loudoun County, Virginia, which is home to 56 data centers and 5.2 million square feet of mission-critical space.

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The Investing Edge

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

'This post is the final installment of a three-part series on the Internet of Things, along with What Nest Just Did for the Internet of Things and Why the Internet of Things is also Industry 4.0. The technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) falls into four broad categories: sensors, software, platforms, and networks and connections. Most of the technology is at a point where the IoT can and will grow at a fairly aggressive rate.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

'Does anyone still believe that Marketing can be successful following intuition driven practices? Is it sufficient to spread marketing investments across a number of channels to successfully reach and convert prospects? Does your CMO fully grasp the new table stakes in competing for new customers? Let''s examine some changes and opportunities facing today''s CMO .

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

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

'While working technology selection projects, one feature that I like to look at is flexibility. In the past, flexibility wasn’t exactly a feature that was touted by many vendors, but in recent years, we’ve seen more folks highlight their solutions as being flexible, customizable and able to do multiple functions for a business. Flexibility – if designed and implemented correctly – is ideal for technology solutions and is wonderful for IT groups since we are constantly being a

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

'By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: we saw this article on the CIA website and wanted to share it with you. Although it does not have much details, it has enough information to get your mind going about the environment and operations in this fast paced environment and is well worth a ready by anyone interested in analysis, national […].

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'CIOs need to know how to have good conversations with their staff Image Credit. More and more CIOs are finding themselves in charge of global IT departments. This is posing a unique problem for them: given the importance of information technology, how can they connect with the members of their IT department in order to determine what is really going on and what really needs to be done?

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

'Hosting Mac minis is proving to be good business for a handful of colocation providers that specialize in hosting web sites on the small, square computers from Apple. This week Mac Mini Vault has just added a second data center location in Phoenix.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

'It seems as if APIs are popping up everywhere these days. While this isn’t a bad thing, it does mean that IT professionals need to have a better understanding of how to interact with these APIs. In this post, I’m going to discuss how to use the popular command line utility curl to interact with a couple of RESTful APIs—specifically, the OpenStack APIs and the VMware NSX API.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

'What’s Your Story? Quote : Taking our corporate strategy, translating it into traceable, optimizable metrics, and using our data and models in a disciplined and iterative manner will allow us to be the best possible company we can be. IT Language Lessons « The Dark Side Geek. Quote : So what is the “common language”? The answer was already there.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. If you find our open technology context and analysis of use please consider evaluating our subscription-only research and analysis service CTOvision Pro. CTOvision Pro provides access to more in-depth analysis and reporting. Subscribers receive a bi-weekly newsletter with up to date context and analysis that can help you apply emerging technologies to your mission needs.

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