Wed.May 27, 2015

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Liquid Web Names Former Cbeyond Head CEO, Receives Investment from Madison Dearborn Partners

Data Center Knowledge

Liquid Web has not disclosed the financial details of the investment but says the Chicago-based private equity firm has provided a “substantial investment” in the company. Read More.

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7 common mistakes in Go (2015)

SPF13

Given at GopherFest 2015. This is an updated version of the talk I gave in NYC Nov 14 at GothamGo. “We need to think about failure differently. Most people think mistakes are a necessary evil. Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil, they aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new and as such should be seen as valuable. “ - Ed Catmull.

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The Role of Database-as-a-Service in Future Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

With OpenStack's introduction of Trove, its Database-as-a Service (DBaaS) component, the automated deployment and management of relational or non-relational databases simplifies often complex administrative tasks such as configuration, patching, backups, restores, and monitoring. Read More.

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The Science and Art of Business Leadership

Cloud Musings

Business leadership is both science and art. The scientific aspects revolve around finance, organization, products and service. Artistic aspects include relationships, market trajectories and business strategies. While many focus on the science through books and training, the art of business is best learned from real practitioners. That is why I jumped at the chance to meet Dimension Data ’s Steve Nola during the company’s analyst event, Perspectives 2015, in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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HP Acquires ConteXtream To Bolster NFV

Data Center Knowledge

ConteXtream’s open SDN controller platform complements HP’s NFV expertise, as HP looks to get CSPs up and running with NFV Read More.

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The AWS Pop-up Loft opens in New York City

All Things Distributed

Over a year ago the AWS team opened a "pop-up loft" in San Francisco at 925 Market Street. The goal of opening the loft was to give developers an opportunity to get in-person support and education on AWS, to network, get some work done, or just hang out with peers. It became a great success; every time when I visit the loft there is a great buzz with people getting advice from our solution architects, getting training or attending talks and demos.

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The Science and Art of Business Leadership

Cloud Musings

Business leadership is both science and art. The scientific aspects revolve around finance, organization, products and service. Artistic aspects include relationships, market trajectories and business strategies. While many focus on the science through books and training, the art of business is best learned from real practitioners. That is why I jumped at the chance to meet Dimension Data ’s Steve Nola during the company’s analyst event, Perspectives 2015, in Prague, Czech Republic.

Cloud 70
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Sony Acquires Facebook-Born Startup That Repurposes Blu-Rays for Cold Storage

Data Center Knowledge

Startup wants to give supposedly outdated technology a new life in the data center Read More.

Storage 172
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Digital Master Tuning #92: Is it Possible to Evaluate Performance based purely on Objective Data?

Future of CIO

The more meaningful and important the thing you want to assess, the harder it is to measure objectively. You measure things for a PURPOSE. That purpose drives your metrics. You can measure anything, but often not directly, but about measuring INDICATORS, that may or may not be relevant to why you are measuring. KPIs are indicators, not the performance itself.

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CloudBolt Brings Self-Service Capabilities to IT Management Platform

Data Center Knowledge

Enables users to select from variety of IT management tools for wide range of environments Read More.

Tools 163
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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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How to Design Organizations to Maintain Viability

Future of CIO

If the organization understands itself in relation to its context, it should be able to determine whether it requires changing something to become viable. Digital organizations are a complex ecosystem with the blurring line between functions, organizations and geographic locations. How to design organizations to maintain viability and deliver tactical actions for strategic effect, given weak, noisy and evolving feedback signals due to systemic adaptive complexity in its environment?

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Instart Logic Updates Software-Defined Application Delivery Platform

Data Center Knowledge

Startup says performance enhancements improve speed, security, scalability Read More.