FOR THE CTO, CIO & CISO
ANALYTICS: Big Data or Big Confusion? An Argument for Simplifying Your Business Intelligence. Every year, IBM interviews thousands of C-suite executives from across the globe to learn what they’re focused on and what’s helping them succeed. If you’re looking for insights into enterprise comings and goings, this series of reports is essential reading. Read more [BUSINESS2COMMUNITY.COM]
STRATEGY: How Mobile, Social Tech Elevate Enterprise Collaboration. Collaboration in the enterprise comes in many forms, but no trends have shaped the market more than social media and mobile technology. The ongoing convergence of smartphones, always-on connectivity and ubiquitous social media lifts collaboration to new heights. Read more
[CIO.COM]
SURVEY: Executives Report Pay Increases, Say Incentives Are Good Retention Tool. More than 60% of executives who receive long-term incentives believe the incentives motivate them to remain at their current company, according to a new global survey. Read more
[CGMA.ORG]
EXECUTIVE ROLE: 7 CEOs Share Why CISOs Need To Be Involved In The Boardroom. It should be expected that the CISO be a part of boardroom discussions—both so that the board and the rest of the executive management team knows where things stand from a risk perspective, and so that the CISO is part of the conversation as it relates to business goals. Read more
[FORBES.COM]
DATABASES
MS SQL: Importance of Statistics and How It Works in SQL Server. SQL Server Query Optimizer uses statistics to estimate the distribution of values in one or more columns of a table or index views, and the number of rows (called cardinality) to create a high-quality query execution plan. Often statistics are created on a single column but it’s not uncommon to create statistics on multiple columns. Read more
[DATABASEJOURNAL.COM]
ORACLE: Goes For Heart Of The Data Center With Low-Cost, High-Performance Converged Systems. Oracle Corp. is going after the core of the data center with the latest generation of its Engineered Systems, offering much higher performance at what it says is half the price of comparable systems from industry leader VCE Co. LLC. Read more
[SILICONANGLE.COM]
FEDERAL IT
CLOUD COMPUTING: Goodrich: ‘FedRAMP High’ Baseline Coming Soon. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Director Matthew Goodrich said Jan. 22 that a draft baseline for cloud computing systems that require FISMA high-impact level security is nearly ready for public comment. Read more
[FCW.COM]
CONGRESS: New Federal Policies Are Cause For Contractor Optimism. The 114th Congress is underway, and we’re beginning to see signs of change for major policy items, a few of which will have a direct and largely favorable impact on the federal IT community. Read more
[WASHINGTONTECHNOLOGY.COM]
DISASTER RESPONSE: Dell’s Federal Team Takes On Ebola With Tech. Dell has heaped praise on its federal government unit after the team managed to coordinate a bundle of technology to send to parts of West Africa affected by Ebola. The technology giant worked with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Foundation – which is an independent body aiming to connect the CDC with the private sector – to quickly deploy “much-needed” technology in the form of 100 notebooks during the peak of the outbreak. Read more
[CHANNELNOMICS.COM]
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