CTOvision
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
There is something special about Tamr. As technologists we focus on things like their ability to help organizations make better decisions through smart, differentiated technologies. Results are what matters in enterprise IT. The savvy enterprise leader knows this. Really great firms deliver results long term. How can you know if you are dealing with a firm like that?
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
California startup building a data center on a barge claims interest from US Navy, major corporate users Read More.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 8, 2015
In my last post, I proposed six business, cultural, and strategic objectives you can use to evaluate digital transformation enabling technologies. The intention of these objectives is to align executives and stakeholders on opportunities and challenges worthy of investment independent from any evaluation of solutions and technologies. Now there are plenty of methodologies to evaluate technology.
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
In a recent post on O’Reilly Radar titled “ Turning big data into actionable insights “, Ben Lorica provides some highlights of an interview with Evangelos Simoudis regarding big data. One of the highlights is extremely important. It relates to the importance of finding actionable insights from big data and sharing those insights in a way that the organization can use.
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Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
Placing IT staff in other departments is a new IT trend Image Credit: VIA Gallery. The person with the CIO job understands that the because of the importance of information technology, the role of the IT department is to support the rest of the company. The challenge for the longest time has been how exactly to go about doing this. Over the past few years, the interactions between the IT department and other departments has been increasing; however, there is still a gulf between the two groups.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. Customers can choose between 11 regions around the world today and, in addition to Korea, we are adding regions in India, a second region in China, and Ohio in 2016. Today, I am excited to add the United Kingdom to that list!
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Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Hires advisors to explore alternatives to data center ownership Read More.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
What criteria are you, your business stakeholders, influential technologists, and executives using to evaluate a new software application or SaaS platform? Are you concerned about features and functionality? Is it the design of the user interface that grabs your attention? Perhaps you go deeper to understand how much of the platform can be configured or customized to meet specific business.
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and Iron Mountain just released a report titled “ How organizations can unlock value and insight from the information they hold “ Along with the report, they’ve released an infographic that I thought worth sharing but before the infographic, let me share a few of the highlights and offer some opinion on the results.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Cyberthreats are something that CIOs don’t like to talk about Image Credit: UK Ministry of Defense. By now we all know that our firms are under an almost constant set of attacks from a wide variety of outsiders because of the importance of information technology. Some of these attackers are simply children who are just fooling around with their computes and are trying to see how far they can get.
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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Dropbox launches new Enterprise edition at its Dropbox Open conflab. But rival Box, Inc. is throwing shade with fighting talk. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says his company is about more than just B2C cloud sync now. But Box CEO Aaron Levie is trying to spoil Drew's party, with his cruel, hurtful words. Children, children. Please. Play nice, would ya? In IT Blogwatch , bloggers remember-remember.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is the discipline of thinking machines.
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Firm's tech secures data across on-premise and cloud environments Read More.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
We've all heard about the CEOs and leaders who don't get digital, who don't invest, who are risk averse, who assign blame at every speed bump, who think there businesses are defendable against startups and new digital business models. So this week I present a handful of CEOs who appear to 'get it'. The ones that realize that staying static or making changes slowly is no longer an option.
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Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
Big data doesn’t have to be used to solve big problems. Big data sure makes it easier to solve big problems, but you can just as easily use big data and data analytics to solve ‘smaller’ issues. In fact, if your organization is just getting started in the world of big data, it makes sense to find a few smaller problems to try to solve.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Be careful before you hit the email delete button Image Credit: Mixy Lorenzo. Sure, as the person with the CIO job, there are a lot of different things that you could be doing. However, have you ever spent any time thinking about the things that you should be doing? It turns out that given the importance of information technology it just might be what you and your IT team is not doing that may end up causing both you and your company the most trouble.
Cloud Musings
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
As cloud computing continues to grow in importance, enterprises are now facing a new realization. In their almost rampant embrace of cost savings associated with public cloud, many are just now understanding the information technology governance challenge posed by vastly different traditional and cloud computing operational models. Often referred to as hybrid IT, supporting both models has left many executives trying to cope with a lack of hybrid IT operational experience.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
Toyota Motor Europe’s Wouter Dullaert explains Tamr’s features and benefits in the video below. We like this video because it is another great example of how a technologist in an enterprise can make a huge impact on the business of an organization. It is also good because it underscores why Tamr is unique. Dullaert underscores that tapping into the full value of customer information is key, “with ‘roughly 270 different databases that have customer data in them — and that’s before we actually get
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Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
One of the biggest challenges with cloud is controlling and managing storage. Here are some basics on storage tiering across hybrid infrastructure. Read More.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Is anyone surprised that a SaaS company that provides agile project management tools to software developers, marketers, and enterprises is about to IPO at a $3.3 Billion valuation on revenues of $320M? I'm talking about Atlassian of course and if you've been leading agile practices you know them for their tools like Jira and Confluence that help teams manage agile programs and collaborate.
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Earlier this week, I wrote “ Where are we in the big data lifecycle? ” where I said that we are currently somewhere between the ‘technology trigger’ and ‘peak of inflated expectations’ on Gartner’s Hype Cycle for big data. A newly released report from IDC titled “ Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services Forecast, 2015–2019 ” predicts that we will continue to see strong growth over the next four years for big data services, software and infrastructure.
Mick's IT Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Recently, I had to deploy.Net Framework 4.5.2 to all systems, as it was a requirement for a software update. I first deployed it through software updates in SCCM 2012. The status showed up as compliant. I thought nothing more of it. I went to deploy the application and it failed on many machines. SCCM was reporting back false data, which is part of my other blog posting.
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Cloud Musings
NOVEMBER 22, 2015
The Dell Fellows program recognizes engineers for their outstanding and sustained technical achievements, engineering contributions and advancement of the industry. They are also seen as top innovators that have distinguished themselves through ingenuity, intellectual curiosity and inventiveness in the delivery of technology solutions. For these reasons and more, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to speak with Timothy G.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
Big Data is a growing trend, making it possible for businesses of every kind to gather, store, and use the unlimited personal and private data found on the internet. This massive collection allows them to predict trends, determine consumer tastes, and hone marketing plans for the greatest success. However, the concept of collecting vast amounts of information on people sounds dangerous all on its own; what keeps businesses from stepping over the line?
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Colo business stagnating, the company wants to focus investment on more profitable businesses Read More.
ComputerWorld Consumerization IT
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
Chef , along with its arch-rival Puppet , is a company that is hell-bent on automating modern IT. The idea of these companies is that in an increasingly complex environment, organizations, and their IT departments, are looking for tools that make infrastructure deployment easy. The way these companies work is by allowing organizations to create templates to specify how their infrastructure should look for different use-cases.
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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.
The Investing Edge
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
I’m excited to announce Ascent’s newest portfolio company, Sidecar , the leader in programmatic, product-level advertising. We at Ascent have been active investors in the ad tech space with companies like Bizo ( acquired by LinkedIn for $175M ) and StartApp ( Deloitte’s #1 fastest growing tech company in the US ). We’ve seen the power of advanced analytics delivering superior results, especially through programmatic approaches to targeting ad spend.
Mick's IT Blog
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
I recently converted my firm to Microsoft Endpoint. Part of the process is including endpoint in the golden image. I wrote this powershell script that will install endpoint and then remove the necessary registry keys so it will set itself back up when the golden image is laid down on a new machine. You may wonder why I have an uninstall first. I do this in all of my installation scripts in the event something is wrong with the currently installed app and it needs to be reinstalled.
Virtualized Greek
NOVEMBER 7, 2015
Next up in our preview to Virtualization Field Day 6 (VFD6) is ZeroStack. VFD6 is my first introduction to ZeroStack. ZeroStack has a bunch of buzz words going on in their solution. ZeroStack provides a hyper-converged infrastructure to build a.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
NASA has announced that MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL) is one of two university research groups nationwide that will receive a 6-foot, 290-pound humanoid robot to test and develop for future space missions to Mars and beyond. You need to see this thing to believe it. Check it out in the video at this link and embedded below: A group led by CSAIL principal investigator Russ Tedrake will develop algorithms for the robot, known as “Valkyrie” or “R5,” as part
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