2013

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The CTOvision Disruptive IT List: Firms we believe all enterprise.

CTOvision

'The CTOvision.com Disruptive IT List is our assessment of the technology firms with the greatest potential for virtuous disruption of enterprise IT. Our goal is to provide enterprise CTOs with advanced notice of firms they should.

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Citizen Opinion - What Influences It?

CIO Musings

'I just finished a graduate degree in public leadership from Virginia State University. My research for the degree focused on the opportunity to improve citizen satisfaction with local government by leveraging the trends of social media and the internet. I conducted an online survey, receiving 153 responses from 20 states. 70% of the responses were from Virginia.

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Facebook Ops: Each Staffer Manages 20,000 Servers

Data Center Knowledge

'Each Facebook data center operations staffer can manage at least 20,000 servers, according to Delfina Eberly, Director of Data Center Operations at Facebook.

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Hugo: A fast and flexible static site generator built in GoLang

SPF13

'Hugo Website. Hugo is a static site generator written in GoLang. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data. A typical website of moderate size can be rendered in a fraction of a second.

Linux 278
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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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Fountainhead: Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the.

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the Field. Driving around silicon valley on routes 101 and 280 ("The 101" and "The 280" if youre from California) you cant help but notice this isnt like the rest of America.

Licensing 278
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A CIO Top Ten Guide to Preparing a Thanksgiving Feast

Social, Agile and Transformation

'I like to cook and I really look forward to the Thanksgiving Holiday. For the past thirteen years, I''ve enjoyed locking myself in the kitchen and perfecting the Thanksgiving feast largely from scratch everything from home made cranberry sauce to my evolving sweet potato pie/casserole recipes. But this year we''re going to family and I already miss the prep work that I always start the weekend.

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SiliconANGLE: Great Way To Bring Silicon Valley To Your Enterprise

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley If you love learning about technology this is a great time to be alive. There is so much out there worth learning. And there are so many free and open information sources. The only problem is picking your information sources. You have to prioritize or you can bury yourself in useless or even counterproductive info. With this post I want to highlight one of my favorites, SiliconANGLE.

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Penn & Teller and GoogleGlass: Legendary performers now pioneers of wearable computing

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Pasted below and at this link is an interesting Google Glass video. I captured it after Penn & Teller both gave me permission to record them while onstage. I was at their show and given the opportunity to participate as an observer to one of their most famous and amazing acts, one involving two magic bullets. Also at this link. The video underscores a few things technologists should track: - Wearable computing is not mainstream yet.

Storage 307
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Awake Yet? The list of cyber security "wake up calls" grows as.

CTOvision

'cyber-workforce.preview There are several certainties in computer security. One is that when adversaries have intent they will always find a way to get what they want. Another certainty is that leadership in government and.

Security 308
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DSB Report on Resilient Military Systems and the Cyber Threat.

CTOvision

'How does that make you feel? You know yourself what adversaries are doing when it comes to intellectual property theft. Now read on for more about what the DSB sees as the threat to military systems.

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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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My Infosec Wish for 2013: A Balanced Cyberwarfare Debate.

CTOvision

'Cybersoldiers I can already hear the chuckling. ?Cyber warfare? Balanced? And I'd like partisanship in Washington to end, a double date with Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson, and some fries with that!? Yes, my desire is.

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IBM Claims Advances In Fully Homomorphic Encryption (and I’m claiming advances in an anti-gravity device)

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley For years computer scientists have talked about the very interesting challenge regarding the desire to be able to operate over encrypted data in an advanced way called Homomorphic Encryption. This is a field that gets nuanced fast, with terms like “partially homomorphic” relevant to many existing systems that are in place, but Fully Homomorphic thought by many to be so far away to be just a dream.

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Tech Trends To Watch In May 2013 - CTOvision

CTOvision

'The following is the meat from our monthly tech trends report. You can have this delivered to your email each month by visiting our newsletter signup page. Over the last several months we continued to see foundations being.

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Deep Insights Into The Future of #Hadoop By @Cutting of @Cloudera

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Cloudera’s Doug Cutting delivered a presentation at Hadoop World that outlined key forces driving the data world forward which shed some important insights on where enterprise technology is going. This presentation is summarized and embedded below: Doug starts with a review of his models for predicting the future and this is important, since every model has strengths and weaknesses.

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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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NIH commits $24 million annually for Big Data Centers of Excellence

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley In what might be the best deployment of resources the government has made in decades, the National Institute of Health (NIH) is establishing a small number of “centers of excellence” to help researchers from throughout the nation improve their ability to ask bigger questions of data, including incredibly large datasets that have never been fully addressable before.

Big Data 288
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Northrop Grumman Creates Incredibly Capable, Fearless Killer Robot

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley No doubt you have a lot on your mind right now. But there is a video you need to stop and watch right away. This could have an impact on just about any analysis you are doing, especially if you are analyzing the net assessment of our military vs others. It may also impact assessments about the future of humanity, perhaps not in a good way, unfortunately.

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Metrics and Big Data: How to measure the value of big data for your business

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley With the herald of innovative, personal, smart and targeted marketing, ‘big data’ offers enticing and varied advantages for businesses. The ability uncover and harness data, to tackle and tame the informational chaos presented, is increasingly expected of most organisations. But how do you know how useful and profitable data will be for your business uniquely?

Big Data 283
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Federal Big Data Community Convenes 6 Feb at Apache Hadoop Forum

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley If you are an analyst or executive or architect engaged in the analysis of big data, this is a “must attend” event. We will be there engaging with the community and hope to see you there. Registration is now open for the third annual Federal Big Data Apache Hadoop Forum! Register here. Join us on Thurs., Feb. 6, as leaders from government and industry convene to share Big Data best practices.

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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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DHS CIO Spires put 'on leave', Enterprises running Java versions.

CTOvision

'Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DHS CIO Spires put 'on leave' ? ?FedScoop has learned that Department of Homeland Security's Chief Information Officer Richard Spires has been put on immediate 'on.

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Federally Focused Technology Event Calendar: A reference for.

CTOvision

'Events calendar. There are dozens of technology related events every single week. Even with recent decisions aimed at cutting back on the number of events that the government is involved with, industry, academia and even.

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NSA and 60 Minutes: If You Want To Know The Culture of NSA This May Be Your Best Source

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley If you are a national security professional we most highly recommend pausing to watch the video at this link and embedded below. It is the video of a 60 minutes examination of NSA which includes interviews of General Alexander, Rick Ledgett and several NSA analysts. It also includes first ever public footage of key NSA watchfloors and analytical workspaces.

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Ubiquity Will Convert Sears Auto Centers into Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Ubiquity Critical Environments plans to build a national chain of IT facilities by converting dozens of Sears Auto Center stores into data centers. It is partnering with Schneider Electric to build and operate mission-critical facilities in at least 23 second-tier markets around the country.

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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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First Look: Facebook’s Oregon Cold Storage Facility

Data Center Knowledge

'Facebook has began migrating data to its newly constructed cold storage facility. On Tuesday it opened the facility to reporters, providing a look at a hyperscale implementation of custom-built long-term storage.

Storage 279
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Google Has Spent $21 Billion on Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Google has invested more than $21 billion in its Internet infrastructure since the company began building its own custom data centers in 2006.

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Win a free two day pass to Strata/Hadoop World 28-30 Oct 2013 in NYC

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Thanks to the fine people at O’Reilly Media, we have been given two free passes to Strata/Hadoop World, which is being held 28/30 October in NYC. We will be giving them away to two lucky readers. We only ask that you submit your name and email using the form below. Drawing will be held 15 October. Strata Conference and Hadoop World.

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Rackspace Adding 50 Servers Per Day

Data Center Knowledge

'The growth is back at Rackspace Hosting. The cloud computing specialist added 4,762 physical servers in the second quarter of 2013, an average of 52 servers per day.

Cloud 279
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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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Activists Target Water Supply for NSA Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'An activist group is mounting an effort to force the state of Utah to shut off the water supply to the National Security Agency''s huge data center in Bluffdale, Utah.

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eBay Goes Live With its Bloom-Powered Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'eBay has debuted a new data center power design that abandons diesel generators and UPS units in favor of Bloom Energy fuel cells powered by natural gas. Executives from eBay and Bloom say the facility in South Jordan, Utah sets a radical new course for the data center industry.

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The Barge Mystery: Floating Data Centers or Google Store?

Data Center Knowledge

'Could barges stacked with containers and spotted in San Francisco and Portland, ME waterways be the Google floating data center projects? Or is it another practical joke from the Googlers? Data Center Knowledge examines the mystery.

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Major Outage for BlueHost, HostGator, HostMonster

Data Center Knowledge

'A Utah data center supporting some of the web hosting industry''s best known brands has suffered a networking outage, causing an extended service outage. The problems at a Provo, Utah facility operated by Endurance International Group, have led to downtime for customers of BlueHost, HostGator and.

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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.