CTOvision

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The FBI just posted the first official written articulation of why they believe North Korea is linked to the ongoing Sony Hack. As someone who has worked with FBI investigators in the past I have to tell you they do not go public like this unless they have evidence. It is true they have been wrong before, and it is a very American trait to be skeptical of government assessments.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 11, 2014

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'I’m sure there are many definitions of a CEO out there. Plenty of people will say the CEO should be a leader, manager, communicator and facilitator. Other’s might say that the CEO is the person most focused on strategy and the ‘future’ of the business. Investopedia defines the CEO as: The highest ranking executive in a company whose main responsibilities include developing and implementing high-level strategies, making major corporate decisions, managing the overall ope

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'In 2014, many of my posts on BigData were actually about "small" data management practices. Specifically, I hope these posts educated readers that tools of "Data Science 1.0" such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and especially Access can disrupt - even kill - efforts to make organizations become more data driven. In addition to calling out this problem which is something I have been doing for a.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2014

'Networking is all about meeting new people Image Credit: Freelancers Union. As CIO you know that despite the importance of information technology, networking is so much more than just connecting servers with cables. It turns out that it has a lot to do with meeting new people and expanding your social network. This is valuable stuff. Now the big question is how to go about doing it correctly…?

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2014

'What is ITIL & how can it benefit your organization? Learn the answers to these questions plus gain an understanding of the ITIL Service Lifecycle in this video. Download a free white paper & learn more about ITIL training at [link] ( This content is being syndicated through multiple channels. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of GovCloud Network, GovCloud Network Partners or any other corporation or organization.) ?

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'Major data breaches make it clear that data security is a serious problem, writes Patrick Quirk of Emerson Network Power. But despite the rash of breaches, there remains an industry-wide naïveté when it comes to these types of security concerns. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 23, 2014

'T he modern data center is a complex environment with many different systems and many different objectives. The data center exists to provide an organization with the networking, storage, processing and connectivity features needed to operate in the fast paced, data-driven world we live in today. Over the years, many data centers have become the dumping ground for all things technology.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'I started 2014 with several posts on the CIO / CMO relationship and where IT departments can help with digital marketing initiatives. The main touch point is around data and the technologies that enable CMOs to be more data driven. With so many technology vendors trying to tap into marketing budgets and when most of the key marketing data is is enterprise systems, SaaS products, and other data.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'You can never be too cautious when it comes to social networking Image Credit. Congratulations CIO: the world that you are operating in has become a lot more complex lately. What this means for you is that you’re going to have to determine what the new rules are for being successful in this world are and how to maximize the importance of information technology for your company.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

'We are offering a fun and educational event just about the cloud. This session will help CEOs, Directors, Managers, and Dilberts learn what the heck the cloud is all about. Don’t get left out of the conversation. Learn how your business / organization can benefit from this technology. The cloud is all around you and you need to know what it is. When: January 15, 2015 Time: 4:00 – 7:00 (ish) Location: San Diego – Specific Location TBD – trust us we’ll pick a cool place.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. On 11 Dec 2014 we will be providing a briefing on lessons extracted from our research into the new Cloudera and Intel partnership. This presentation is designed to arm architects with the information they need to efficiently modernize and deliver cost-saving, mission-supporting capabilities to their enterprise. This webinar format will enable us to dynamically present and then interact with the architects, program managers and technology executives attending.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 22, 2014

'As data center change continues at a rapid pace, important trends are rising to the fore that will help shape the industry in 2015 and beyond, writes Kevin Leahy of Dimension Data. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 9, 2014

'The 2014 CIO State of the CIO Survey has some interesting data related to the role of the CIO. One of the interesting pieces of that survey relates to the idea that CIO’s are feeling as though they are being pushed aside. Nearly 30 percent of CIO’s reportedly feel ‘sidelined in their businesses as they watch shadow IT increase.’. My instinct tells me that many of those 30 percent of CIO’s are struggling today because they haven’t taken the step forward to drive innovation within the organizatio

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 9, 2014

'For the last few years as CIO of McGraw Hill Construction, I''ve had four relatively strange items on my desk that I''ve kept around for special reasons. A few people on my staff have some understanding on why I kept them, but few have asked about them. I think everyone working in IT might have some interest in the stories behind these items as they represent different leadership principals.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'Bad things have been happening at the Singapore Stock Exchange Image Credit: Reuters. Stock exchanges are challenging businesses to run. The people who use stock exchanges, stock traders, banks, brokers, etc. move very fast. The phrase “time is money” was invented to describe these people. They have a desperate need to be able to communicate with other people in a very rapid and very reliable way.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'by Melvin Greer Managing Director Greer Institute for Leadership and Innovation According to a Greer Institute Workforce and Talent study, the 2020 workforce is both “the most educated and culturally diverse of any generation” and “notorious job-hoppers who dislike bureaucracy and distrust traditional hierarchies.” Given this, it is crucial for leaders to understand how best to motivate and engage this 2020 workforce and win the war for top talent.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'By SeanLawson. On October 27, 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a new Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that bans the use of “unmanned aircraft and remote controlled aircraft” near stadiums. The move comes in the wake of a number of reports worldwide , including within the United States , of “drone” use at sporting events. Though these incidents certainly raise legitimate safety concerns, the FAA’s response is problematic for a number of reasons.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 22, 2014

'Web-scale, containers, stream analytics, non-x86 silicon, and other big trends that will drive the industry Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 29, 2014

'I just read through “ Four Ways to Innovate Using Big Data and Analytics ” over on Forbes. It’s a good read…you should jump over and read it yourself. If you don’t have the time (or just don’t want to), I give my thoughts on these ‘four ways” below. The ‘four ways’ are: The payback on big data investments is happening quickly.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'Today, I am going to share the most simple, agile, program management tool. I''ve implemented a versions of this tool in every organization I''ve been a part of for the last ten years. It doesn''t require an expensive enterprise portfolio management tool and can be easily implemented in almost any SaaS database or workflow tool that can support lists and forms.

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Mick's IT Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2014

'This module is designed to make automating the installation of software a breeze. It also provides logging that makes it easy to check and see if there were errors during an installation. The logging has been designed so that there is an installation log file that records all steps in the installation, an application log file that the installer creates, and finally a build.log file that records if the application was successfully installed.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'2015 PREDICTION TIME!! The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Their individual effect on society and commerce will become moot as these technological capabilities merge to deliver products and services straight out of Star Trek! Rise of the "Cloud System Integrator" (a.k.a. Cloud Service Broker ) - Traditional system integrators will finally realize that their current product and labor based business model is about to go the way of the

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 23, 2014

'By Dean Wiech. Everyone has done it, used some kind of wild way to remember user names and passwords. Let’s face it, the rules for managing passwords is overwhelming. People are required to remember numerous sets of credentials for all of the systems and applications they need to access their job and personal life, but it’s often too difficult to remember them all.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'In building out a global federation of small cloud providers, OnApp is in the position to challenge the likes of AWS. That''s if it gets the technology right. Read More.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'It’s been a bit quiet around here the past week. I’ve been doing some traveling over the holidays and enjoying some time with my wife and our cameras. This morning, we went out to one of the best locations in the area for bird watching and photography. We were pretty sure we wouldn’t see much nor get any good photographs due to the very thick fog that had rolled in overnight.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'Is Docker, and for that matter containers in general full-on competition to VMware and other virtualization platforms? Docker has announced platform level features that include network virtualization and clustering. However, not every workload is suitable for containers. Containers lack much.

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Mick's IT Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

'Here is a script I have written that will replicate the permissions between two folders. Execute the script and you will be prompted for the source and destination folders. It will first parse through and set folder permissions and then parse through file permissions. You can download the script here. cls $Errors = 0 $SourceDrive = Read-Host ''Enter source folder'' $DestinationDrive = Read-Host ''Enter destination folder'' #Match capitalization with directories $TempDrive = Get-Item -Path $Sour

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2014

'By Jodi Kohut For the uninitiated, FedRAMP is the Federal Risk Authorizationand Management Program , a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. Implemented to support the Administration’s “Cloud First” policy, some have pointed to FedRAMP as a great model for commercial industry’s adoption of cloud as well.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 20, 2014

'By SeanLawson. For more than a decade we have heard constant warnings about the coming of “cyber war” and “cyber terrorism.” The prophets of cyber doom have promised that cyber attacks are just around the corner that will be on par with natural disasters or the use of weapons of mass destruction. With every new report of a cyber attack, the prophets exclaim that their visions have finally come to pass, and so it is with the most recent attack against Sony.

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