Fri.Jul 25, 2014

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Technologists: Time to dig into the State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs Tech Meltdown

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Stories are starting to make it into the tech media about what appears to be a massive melt-down of one of the nation’s most important IT systems. This system is not be as widely known as healthcare.gov, but it should be, because it is every bit as important. The system is the IT behind the critical missions of the Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.

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IBM Brings Government Cloud to California State

Data Center Knowledge

'CalCloud provides California state government entities and departments with secure cloud resources, including compute, storage, network and disaster recovery services Read More.

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MSI Error 1325: is not a valid short file name

Mick's IT Blog

'This error in my case was being caused because the MSI was being executed through SCCM. The MSI file had to be executed locally and not from a network source. It would install with no issues if you double-clicked on the MSI. It only happened when SCCM tried to install it. During my troubleshooting, I tried a few different alternatives: I use a PowerShell script to install the package.

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Equinix Buys Rest of Brazil Data Center Provider ALOG

Data Center Knowledge

'Spends $225M on the remaining half of the provider with four data centers in Rio and São Paulo. 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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How Going Web-Scale is Opening up New Opportunities

Nutanix

Protected Trust is a service provider that offers a variety of services ranging from secure email and collaborations to secure private cloud offerings.

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Teradata Builds Hadoop Strength With Revelytix and Hadapt Acquisitions

Data Center Knowledge

'Two startup acquisitions bring Hadoop talent and intellectual property to data warehousing giant. Read More.

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QTS Reports Strong Sales Momentum in Upcoming Dallas Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'The company has pre-sold 26,000 square feet of space in the facility it has yet to bring online. Read More.

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Foto Friday – Old Cameras

Eric D. Brown

'I pulled this one from the archives. My first attempt at Light Painting. We set up some old cameras and did some light painting with an LED light. Played around with Lightroom Levels to get the “grunge’ look. Captured with Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 24-105L on a Gitzo tripod. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my Zenfolio portfolio (where you can buy images).

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Vantage: Changing Along With the Wholesale Market

Data Center Knowledge

'From selling deals less than 1MW to offering remote hands, Vantage has become much more than a typical data center landlord. Read More.

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The Importance of Compatibility: Microsoft Shifting to Single Operating System

CTOvision

'We love technology trends at CTO Vision. Trends like user empowerment, the convergence of the cyber and physical worlds, enhanced cloud computing, advances in managing big data, and a persistent environment of cyber insecurity shape the present and future of technology in complex and consequential ways. One little discussed trend is the tendency of today’s tech companies to develop products that function better with each other than without – in other w.

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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 DCIM Improves Planning and Cuts Operational Costs

Data Center Knowledge

'Your data center is important - find out how DCIM directly improves planning and helps cut operational costs. Read More.

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Friday Funny Caption Contest: Chicken Coop

Data Center Knowledge

'Let''s hear it for the weekend and our brand new Friday Funny - submit your best caption for this week''s cartoon! Read More.

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Chinese Search Giant Baidu Buys Pre-fab Modular Data Center from Schneider

Data Center Knowledge

'Vendor deploys two weather-proof all-included modules as Baidu M1 data center Read More.