CTOvision

AUGUST 11, 2015

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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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 17, 2015

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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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 5, 2015

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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Eric D. Brown

AUGUST 6, 2015

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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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 19, 2015

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 Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

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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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 25, 2015

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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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 16, 2015

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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Eric D. Brown

AUGUST 4, 2015

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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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 5, 2015

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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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 18, 2015

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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CTOvision

AUGUST 12, 2015

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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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 26, 2015

As online video replaces cable TV and cloud services replace software licenses and hardware boxes, the makeup of the internet changes too Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 25, 2015

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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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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Mick's IT Blog

AUGUST 10, 2015

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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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 26, 2015

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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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

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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CTOvision

AUGUST 5, 2015

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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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 19, 2015

In addition to bulking up its government business, the deal added major managed hosting capabilities and made QTS an international player Read More.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

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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Mick's IT Blog

AUGUST 25, 2015

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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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 12, 2015

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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The Investing Edge

AUGUST 4, 2015

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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CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2015

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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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 25, 2015

The digitization of the modern business has created a new type of reliance around cloud computing. Here's what you can do to optimize your data center. Read More.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 14, 2015

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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Future of CIO

AUGUST 17, 2015

Change Management = the human side of change! Change for all of us is inevitable, some of us get it quicker than others. So the challenge for organizations is to recognize who their people are and where these talented professionals can contribute to the business success and feel valued along the way. From change management perspective, what's the psychology behind the change?

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Database Star

AUGUST 5, 2015

In this article, I’ll explain what formatting SQL is, and how to find the SQL Developer Format SQL options. What Is SQL Formatting? SQL formatting is the process of neatly arranging your code to make it more readable. When you write SQL, the format of the code is not relevant to the database. By this, I mean that the SQL statement will execute if the syntax is correct and the formatting is terrible.

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The Investing Edge

AUGUST 19, 2015

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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CTOvision

AUGUST 17, 2015

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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