Wed.May 20, 2015

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CTOvision Interviews RADM Paul Becker, Director for Intelligence, Joint Chiefs of Staff, On The Cyber Threat

CTOvision

We recently had the opportunity to interview the Director for Intelligence (J2) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, RADM Paul Becker, USN. RADM Becker has served in this position since September 2013. The Joint Staff J2 is a position requiring a constant awareness of the day-to-day threats to the nation. Becker had the perfect background for this position, having served in a similar capacity at the United States Pacific Command, the combatant commander with the largest area of responsibility in the U

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Pattern Driven Enterprise Cloud Transformation – An Innovative Approach to Hybrid Cloud Adoption

Data Center Knowledge

In order to meet the demands of cloud, analytics and mobile and social strategies (CAMS), organizations are creating new business initiatives Many of them have embraced Software Defined Environments and the use of patterns to enable the faster adoption of cloud. Read More.

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Bright Computing Announces Partnership with NTS Africa

CTOvision

Today, Bright Computing signed a partnership agreement with NTS Africa. Bright Computing is the leader in high performance infrastructure management solutions for cloud, big data and high-performance computing. NTS Africa is a company that provides clients with advanced technology and integrated IT solutions. Through this partnership Bright Computing and NTS Africa plan to drive adoption of infrastructure management solutions in West Africa.

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Equinix Using Bloom Biogas Fuel Cells At Silicon Valley Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

Equinix is deploying 1 megawatt worth of biogas fuel cells at its SV5 facility, as part of its goal of reaching 100 percent renewable energy across its footprint 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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Cloud is about startups and that’s not enough

Virtualized Greek

Former Netflix Architect Adrian Cockcraft and Speaking In Tech host Greg Knierieman had an interesting exchange on Twitter. Adrian compared Netflix’ $100M investment in House of Cards to Zynga’s $100 outlay in a data center.@adrianco If you are going.

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Storage Virtualization, Hyperscale, and the Abstraction of Data

Data Center Knowledge

Our capability to control information and data center resources continues to break new ground. Now, we have data abstraction and new levels of hyperscale to make an even more efficient data center platform. Read More.

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The Uptime Institute’s New Efficient IT Stamp of Approval

Data Center Knowledge

Primarily known for its data center Tier Certification program, the Uptime Institute new Stamp of Approval measures and approves overall IT Efficiency from both an organizational and facility standpoint Read More.

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Building a Fully Automated Ubuntu Installation Process

Scott Lowe

Recently on Twitter, I mentioned that I had managed to successfully create a fully automated process for installing Ubuntu Server 14.04.2, along with a method for bootstrapping Ansible. In this post, I’m going to describe the installation process I built and the components that went into making it work. I’ll discuss the Ansible bootstrap process in a separate post.

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Report: Facebook Data Center Potentially Coming To Ireland

Data Center Knowledge

The social media giant is hiring data center engineers and reportedly filing initial documentation for a $220 million data center in Meath, Ireland. Read More.

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CIO as a Strategist: How to Do Strategy Management Right

Future of CIO

At the end of the day, the organization must be centered on its customers. IT strategy is an integral component of business strategy. The objective of IT strategy is not just to be aligned with business strategy, rather, IT strategy is an integral part of Business Strategy. CIOs as an IT leader and a business strategist, how to create a good strategy, and more importantly, how to implement it, and demonstrate business value in order to build solid IT reputation and improve IT maturity?

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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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Peak 10 Expands In North Carolina With Raleigh Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

Since acquisition by GI Partners in May 2014, Peak 10 has been on an expansion tear. The new Raleigh data center brings total footprint in the market to 100,000 square feet Read More.

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MuleSoft Nets Huge $128 Million Investment For API-led Connectivity

Data Center Knowledge

MuleSoft, an API-led connectivity platform software provider announced it has secured an enormous $128 million financing round, led by Salesforce Ventures. Read More.

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Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software Play Springpath Names New CEO

Data Center Knowledge

Industry vet Terry Cunningham has come out of retirement to help lead Springpath's software-defined hyperconvergence charge. Read More.

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SingleHop Acquires Datagram

Data Center Knowledge

In its second acquisition in two months, SingleHop acquires Datagram to expand data center services and extend into new markets. Read More.

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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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DataHero Raises $6.1m For Self-Service Cloud BI

Data Center Knowledge

DataHero's Cloud BI aims to make Business Intelligence accessible and tuned for a world increasingly using cloud services.

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