Wed.Apr 16, 2014

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Google Acquires Drone Maker Titan Aerospace

CTOvision

'By ShannonPerry. Young tech companies certainly do not shy away from innovation or acquisition. Two examples: this year, Facebook acquired virtual reality firm Oculus in an effort to develop new communication lines, and Google purchased DeepMind, pushing into the artificial intelligence sphere. The money involved wasn’t exactly pocket change; each acquisition cost upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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As It Expands in San Antonio, Microsoft Sees Data Centers Transforming the Power Grid

Data Center Knowledge

'Microsoft wants to use its data centers to help transform the way electricity is delivered in the United States. That process will focus on San Antonio, TX, where the company has confirmed plans to build a new $250 million data center. Read More.

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Pew Report: Increasing Technology Use among Seniors

CTOvision

'While younger generations are known to quickly adapt to technological advances, older adults and seniors have traditionally lagged behind – preferring TV to the Internet or landlines to cell phones. But the Pew Research Center published a report on April 3rd finding that seniors (adults aged 65 or older) are increasingly incorporating social networking, cell phones, tablets, and e-books into their lives.

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More Downtime for HostGator and BlueHost Customers as Router Issues Plague Utah Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'BlueHost and HostGator have been hit by another outage on Wednesday. According to HostGator, router issues in its Provo, UT, data center are to blame. It appears that the issues began around 11 am ET this morning. Read More.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Have A Very Happy Easter!

The Accidental Successful CIO

'If It's Easter, Then Spring Must Be Here! Finally! Easter has finally arrived. I hope that you are going to be able to take some time off and celebrate this special season as Spring is just around the corner and Winter is quickly becoming a distant memory! I’m going to take this week off and get some well deserved rest. However, I’ll be back next week with some great new CIO tips and techniques for you.

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Open IX News: AMS-IX Opens at Sabey, EvoSwitch and Continuum Earn Certification

Data Center Knowledge

'The first crop of Open-IX certified data centers are popping up this spring. AMS-IX has opened its doors at Intergate.Manhattan, and EvoSwitch and Continuum both achieved Open-IX certification. Read More.

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Texas Instruments Launches Internet of Things Ecosystem

Data Center Knowledge

'Texas Instruments introduces an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem for cloud providers and ARM and Sensor Platforms team to launch open source software for sensor hubs. Read More.

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Software Defined vs. Virtualized Data Center – Tech Talk 39

Virtualized Greek

'Simply virtualizing a data center doesn’t mean that it’s a software defined data center (SDDC). One of the principal goals of software defined is to support the cloud data center.

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Optimizing Power System Monitoring and Control

Data Center Knowledge

'Optimizing power system monitoring and control at a data center can go a long way to helping ensure power reliability – a universal goal of data center management. There are four prevalent sophisticated technologies that can provide key information about the status of onsite power, and Bavesh Patel.

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Podcast: The value of a college degree to your tech career

Virtualized Greek

'My post regarding the topic of the value of a college degree in tech prompted a discussion with Mark Dyson on TheVoiceOfJobSeekers.com Podcast. The Voice of JobSeeker is a blog published by Mark Anthony Dyson a professional career coach and resume writer.

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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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Fusion-io Accelerates SQL Server 2014

Data Center Knowledge

'Unlocking performance gains for MS-SQL, Fusion-io announced that the ioMemory platform has been optimized for performance with SQL Server 2014. Read More.

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What’s the First Step in Building a Great Performance Dashboard

Future of CIO

A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in the annual report. A performance dashboard is a useful tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency. But what’s the simple first step enables you to implement useful Performance Dashboards, that ‘ideally’ from day one delivers high-quality performance management information?

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Signature Acquires Glasshouse US Consulting

Data Center Knowledge

'Data center service provider Signature Technology Group (STG) has acquired the US Consulting division of GlassHouse Technologies, the companies said today. Read More.

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NOS 4.0 Cluster Health – Slices & Dices

Nutanix

It slices and it dices! Nutanix Cluster Health is a new feature that will be another great asset in maintaining availability for your Tier 1 workloads. Cluster Health allows the ability to monitor and visually see the overall health of cluster nodes, VMs and disks from a variety of different views.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Riverbed’s SteelFusion 3.0 Will Transform Branch Office IT

Data Center Knowledge

'Changing the economics of IT for remote offices Riverbed launched SteelFusion 3.0, the first branch converged infrastructure that centralizes data in the data center, delivers local performance, and offers nearly instant recovery at the branch office. Read More.

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IDC’s Analysis of Worldwide DCIM Vendors

Data Center Knowledge

'Data center visibility and control is critical. Now, find out IDC''s analysis of some major, worldwide DCIM vendors. Read More.

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