August, 2015

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National Security Software On Wall Street: Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Comments

CTOvision

Technology that has been used to hunt terrorists is now gaining traction with Wall Street to enhance customer outcomes, make better decisions and even track down fraud. The Wall Street Journal examined this trend in their piece titled: Spy Software Gets a Second Life on Wall Street. They reported on a wave of companies with ties to the intelligence community "winning over" the world of finance.

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Switch Joins Obama’s Business Climate Pledge, Plans 100MW Solar Project in Nevada

Data Center Knowledge

Commits to powering data centers with 100 percent renewable energy Read More.

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Legacy Thinking versus Agile Thinking

Social, Agile and Transformation

Today, I am intrigued and bothered by "legacy thinking". Legacy thinking, is when leaders in an organization, stakeholders on an initiative, or managers of resources or funding believe that they can invest once and largely get it right the first time.

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Data Ownership within an Organization

Eric D. Brown

Recently, I was having a conversation with an IT VP about data management, data access, reporting and analytical approaches to the data stored within the organization. The conversation was a long and frustrating one. I started working with this company to help them open up access to all their data repositories to allow people within the company to access and analyze the data without having to go to a data analyst to ask for a report or data set.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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CIOs Need To Know How To Build Bridges

The Accidental Successful CIO

You’ll need a bridge to move from providing a service to being a partnerbr /> Image Credit: JOHN LLOYD. So here’s a question for you: based on the importance of information technology, what is IT’s role in your company? If you are like most people with the CIO job, your answer will consist of you listing a number of different things that the IT department does for the company: keeps its servers up, installs new applications, protects the network, etc.

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“Cloud First” Lesson’s Learned from ViON

Cloud Musings

In 2011, then United States CIO Vivek Kundra released the US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy [1]. In the executive summary he pointed to cloud computing as a key component of the US Federal Government’s information technology modernization efforts: “Cloud computing has the potential to play a major part in addressing these inefficiencies and improving government service delivery.

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Five Critical Layers of Next-Gen Data Center Automation and Orchestration

Data Center Knowledge

As more users utilize content delivered directly from cloud resources, the data center will need to be able to handle the influx of new demand Read More.

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How to Get an Agile Product Owner to Pay for Technical Debt

Social, Agile and Transformation

It's the most common question I get when discussing agile development as a CIO with a team of developers that are enthusiastic about maturing their practice. How do you get the Product Owner to prioritize fixing technical debt above new features, enhancements, special requests for customers, and improvements to internal tools? How do you get business stakeholders interested in seeing.

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Today’s Data Challenge is Yesterday’s Data Challenge

Eric D. Brown

If you spend any amount of time reading or talking about big data, you’ll often find that one of the challenges facing an organizations use of big data today is the same as problem that these organizations faced just a few years ago: using the data to actually do something. Before the popularity of big data, most large organizations were focused on building their ‘knowledge warehouse’ to store data.

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Why Moving To The Cloud Might Be A Bad Idea For A CIO

The Accidental Successful CIO

Moving to the cloud is not always the right decision Image Credit: Melinda Swinford. If you’ve taken the time to read any of the IT trade rags in the past year or so, you’ve seen a story that tells you how wonderful “the cloud” is and how it has become a key part of the importance of information technology. In fact, if you’ve read enough of these articles, you may be thinking that you are a bit behind the times – your company should be moving more of its application

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Looking for Security Peak Performance?

Cloud Musings

You can find it at Dell Peak Performance 2015 !!! I'll be there at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas attending as a social media representative with a full access pass and an invitation to meet and interview Dell executives and security technology leaders. The event is packaged across three focused tracks: Security Foundation: This track is designed for professionals including business owners, partner executives and sales professionals that are new to the Dell SonicWALL solution or who are

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Microlearning – Training Your Employees More Effectively

CTOvision

An important thing in every company is employee training if the organization is to continue reaping from its important resource—employees. Nonetheless, employees are always busy with all kinds of duties and clearly always on the move. In such a case, microlearning comes in handy to give each of them easy to learn programs that fit within their daily chores better than most traditional training methods.

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Pollution in China Makes Free Cooling Difficult for Baidu

Data Center Knowledge

Air quality drives innovation in data center cooling at Chinese internet giant Read More.

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5 Things To Do When Your Career Hits Rock Bottom

Social, Agile and Transformation

Last year at this time I hit rock bottom in my career. For those of you that know me, you know why and for others it's not important to hash out the past. I learned from the experience. So for those of you that are in a bad situation at work, in your role, or in your career I'm able to offer some advice. Keep in mind, it's taken me a year to be able to write about it.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

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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Windows Updates Reporting Tool

Mick's IT Blog

My firm uses MDT to build all of our computers. The windows updates are setup as packages so they can be applied to the OS before it is laid down on the PC. MDT will then download any new updates and apply them to the PC after the OS has been laid down. In order to keep track of new updates needing to be integrated as a package, I have written the following PowerShell script that will generate a CSV file listing all of the updates installed during the build and in the exact order they were insta

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What Google’s CIO Can Teach Us About Becoming Better CIOs

The Accidental Successful CIO

Google’s CIO has some great ideas on how we can become better Image Credit: Robert Scoble. This CIO job never came with any instructions. Now that we have the CIO job, we are expected to know what to do, when to do it, and who to involve in doing it. I can only speak for myself, but I sure would like to have the opportunity to talk with someone who really knew what they were doing.

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The Cybersecurity Sprint: Are we safe yet?

Cloud Musings

UPDATE: NBC News reports U.S. officials have disclosed a hack of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system, which took place on July 25. Recent unauthorized access to a U.S. government database led to the compromise of information on at least 21.5 million individuals. This massive background investigation data breach also compromised usernames, passwords, mental health records and financial information.

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Staying Ahead of Cyber Attacks

CTOvision

Picking up a newspaper and turning on the TV, one is instantly confronted with news of yet another cyber hack. With cyber attacks headlining the news, millions of people are concerned with whether their personal information has been breached. These attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated and targeted, and are affecting both government and commercial sectors.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

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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Evaluating Ongoing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for UPS Systems

Data Center Knowledge

The Total Cost of Ownership with respect to power systems needs to be calculated over the long-term and at different points in their life cycle. Read More.

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Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB: World-class Performance, Availability, and Scale for New Workloads

All Things Distributed

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships. Relationships are a fundamental aspect of both the physical and virtual worlds.

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Missing Bitlocker Recovery Keys Reporting Tool

Mick's IT Blog

In a perfect environment, GPO forces the bitlocker recovery keys into AD. This doesn't always function correctly. Sometimes a system is bitlockered offline and the key isn't there. Other times, a system might be decrypted and they forget to re-encrypt it. This script is written to generate a report on all systems that have not reported a bitlocker recovery key to AD.

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What’s The Right Way For CIOs To Think About The Cloud?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Now that cloud computing has arrived, what should a CIO do? Image Credit: Pam Broviak. As the person with the CIO job, you now live in a world that is filled with lots and lots of real-time data. It comes from your customers, your manufacturing, your partners, and, of course, your company’s web site. Having access to this much data via the arrival of cloud computing is great news.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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What Really Makes an Entrepreneur Successful?

The Investing Edge

Google that question and you’ll have all the advice you could ever want or need. One list of 25 items includes “grab attention,” “be accessible,” and “get involved.” [1] Another list advises would-be entrepreneurs to be “highly self-motivated” and “exhibit strong leadership qualities.” [2] A third suggests the need for a “strong inner drive” and “being excited by work.” [3] A fourth: passion, risk-taking and self-belief. [4].

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Cognitio Corp’s Roger Hockenberry Selected to Present On Innovation Strategies at 2015 DoDIIS Conference

CTOvision

Cognitio's CEO Roger Hockenberry i s widely known in the technology community as a thought leading CTO with a proven ability to innovate in service to enterprise objectives. Roger brings a unique background with proven past performance in everything he does. He has helped transform startups into powerhouse firms (including Netscape, the firm that changed the world by making the web browser a workable reality), helped design and accelerate the technologies in Sun Microsystems through their perio

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Vapor IO and Bloom Energy Partner on Gas-Powered High-Density Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Integration of Vapor Chamber with Bloom fuel cells aims to create low-carbon data center solution Read More.

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Supermicro CSE-M14TQC Use your media bay to add 12 Gbps SAS SSD drives to your server

Storage IO Blog

Do you have a computer server, workstation or mini-tower PC that needs to have more 2.5" form factor hard disk drive (HDD), solid state device (SSD) or hybrid flash drives added yet no expansion space? Do you also want or need the HDD or SSD drive expansion slots to be hot swappable, 6 Gbps SATA3 along with up to 12 Gbps SAS devices? Do you have an available 5.25" media bay slot (e.g. where you can add an optional CD or DVD drive) or can you remove your existing CD or DVD drive using USB for sof

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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SCCM Client Installer

Mick's IT Blog

This PowerShell script will uninstall previous versions of SCCM client, run the CCMClean to make sure all instances of the client are gone off of the machine, and finally install the SCCM client. The script will not complete until the installation of the SCCM client is completed. I used this when upgrading from 2007 to 2012 and also have this integrated into the build.

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Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog for the Day 1 general session at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco. For many people, VMworld started yesterday with the Welcome Receptio in the Solutions Exchange, but today marks the official kick-off to the event. I’ll have to end this liveblog shortly before the general session ends in order to make it to some customer meetings. The keynote kicks off with a short video about the VMware Cloud Academy, where both “legacy” and “cloud-native” apps can enjoy the Unified Hybrid Cloud

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Congrats to Blue Coat – PerspecSys buy is wise choice

The Investing Edge

Congratulations to enterprise security industry leader Blue Coat Systems on their acquisition of PerspecSys. Our portfolio company PerspecSys , an early leader in the rapidly emerging cloud data protection market, was recently acquired by security gateway leader Blue Coat Systems. This was a very savvy move by Blue Coat and it positions them well in the cloud gateway/cloud access security broker (CASB) market which is projected to grow rapidly by numerous industry analysts.

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Cloud Computing: What do Government Executives Need to be Thinking about to Make a Successful Journey to the Cloud?

CTOvision

In 2011 the US Federal Government issued a Cloud First policy mandating that agencies take full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. Cloud computing is a design style that allows for efficient use of compute, storage, and memory in order to decrease cycle time for mission delivery and promises to change the way that agencies deliver services to citizens for the next twenty years.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.