Fri.Sep 12, 2014

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5 Facts about Datacenters Every Administrator Should Know

CTOvision

'By Natalie Lehrer. Being knowledgeable about datacenter basics will help you solidify your technical career. Datacenters large and small operate on a certain set of principles that can be easily adhered to in order to make the most of your time. Any downtime is unacceptable in many business leaders’ eyes therefore building out or leasing reliable datacenter infrastructure is the key to being successful in your technical endeavors.

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Schneider to Move U.S. Headquarters to Massachusetts

Data Center Knowledge

'French giant opens doors to new Andover R&D center, which will also serve as the new North American headquarters Read More.

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Trusted Cyber Collaboration Workshop: A gathering of the leaders in secure collaboration and cyber security 24-26 Sep in DC

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The 2014 Trusted Cyber Collaboration Workshop is being held 24-26 Sep in DC. This gathering, facilitated by the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Participation (TSCP) pulls together leaders in real secure information exchange, including information exchange across and between enterprises. More from: [link]. Join the Leaders in Secure Collaboration.

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Friday Funny: Pick the Best Caption for Data Center Cleaning

Data Center Knowledge

'Friday afternoon is upon us again and fall is in the air! Let’s roll into another weekend of fun with our Data Center Knowledge Caption Contest. Several great submissions came in for last week’s cartoon – now all we need is a winner! Help us out by scrolling down to… Read More.

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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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The Principles to Define KPIs

Future of CIO

Defining the KPIs to measuring corporate performance is both art and science. The well-defined measures and KPIs are important factors to map strategy & execution and manage performance effectively. However, s electing KPIs is the main challenge in establishing a performance management framework, what are the main principles to define KPIs? Consistency : It is vital that there is a shared consistent understanding of what is meant by the KPI; how the performance rating thresholds are assigned

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StackStorm, Mirantis to Meld DevOps-Style IT Automation With OpenStack

Data Center Knowledge

'Already an active OpenStack contributor, automation start-up StackStorm teams up with one of the most popular open source cloud software distribution firms. Read More.

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Ditching Windows Server 2003 is Necessary if Not Easy

Data Center Knowledge

'Insight warns of key things to consider for migration of the 23.8 million instances of the old server operating system. Read More.

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Foto Friday – Flamingo Giving Me the Evil Eye

Eric D. Brown

'I captured this flamingo at the Tulsa Zoo. It didn’t s eem like she liked having her photo taken. Captured with Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my Zenfolio portfolio (where you can buy images). If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by visiting Adorama (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.

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Google Hooks Startups With $100K Worth of Free Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'Offers credit to early-stage firms backed by major VCs, incubators, accelerators Read More.

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A Quick Introduction to Vagrant

Scott Lowe

'This post will provide a quick introduction to a tool called Vagrant. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock—or, more likely, been too busy doing real work in your data center to pay attention—you’ve probably heard of Vagrant. Maybe, like me, you had some ideas about what Vagrant is (or isn’t) and what it does (or doesn’t) do.

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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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Atlassian’s Stash Data Centers Brings Enterprise-Grade Git to Compute Clusters

Data Center Knowledge

'Company claims to have solved Stash scalability issues. Running on a cluster, it can scale from one to thousands of developers. Read More.

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Seagate Gets Into Cloud Hardware Solutions Business

Data Center Knowledge

'After a series of vendor acquisitions, the company says it will build cloud solutions for OEMs. Read More.

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US Postal Service Cloud Hodge-Podge Creates Unnecessary Security Risks: Audit

Data Center Knowledge

'Audit finds USPS cloud contracts not compliant with the agency''s security standards. Read More.

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