Wed.Sep 24, 2014

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2014 Analyst Forum: Insights for Law Enforcement from Dr. McCue  

CTOvision

'On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information.

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Evangelism is NOT Sales

SPF13

'I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is trying to better understand the role technical evangelism could play within his company. Ten minutes into our conversation he said, “so evangelism is pretty much rogue sales” Internally I cringed. I politely corrected him that the two could not be further apart.

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SkyOrbiter UAVs May Be The Next Way You Will Receive Internet Access

CTOvision

'Quarkson, a Portuguese company, plans to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to transmit Internet access “to every corner of the world”, with their program called SkyOrbiter. Where Google plans to float balloons that are internet-enabled above the earth, Quarkson’s intends to use a fleet of high-range UAVs to deliver connectivity from orbit. The SkyOrbiter fleet comprises six different low-altitude models and three high-altitude models.

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As US Government Agencies Continue Cloud Push, Revenue Opportunity for Service Providers Grows

Data Center Knowledge

'On Tuesday the Department of Defense (DoD) acting CIO Terry Halvorsen announced it will perform a database consolidation that could lead to a $10 to $20 billion dollar savings 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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5 Ways CIOs Can Make Innovation Happen In Their IT Departments

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Innovation will only happen if the CIO knows how to grow it Image Credit. “More innovation, please!” This is what CIOs have been hearing on a daily basis for the past few years. I think that we all understand why we’re being asked to help out, everyone understands the importance of information technology and they believe that this is where the innovation that will help the company out will come from.

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RagingWire Lights Up Final Phase of Ashburn Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'One third of the new phase has been leased by unnamed client, bulk of preceding phases is sold out, illustrating N. Virginia''s thirst for data center space Read More.

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Broadcom Intros StrataXGS Tomahawk Switches for Scale-Out Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Switch employs 25G Ethernet, a standard developed by Broadcom, along with Google, Microsoft, Mellanox and Arista Read More.

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Cross-Generational Mindset

Future of CIO

The cross-generational mindset shifts from hindsight to foresight; from silo to holism; and from diversity to inclusiveness. Many company workforce span three generations—Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials —each with different leadership, communication, working and learning styles. For example, Boomers are commonly defined as demonstrating a strong work loyalty and drive to win; Generation X as tending to be more flexible and resilient; and Millennials as embracing social technology and

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Data Center Jobs: Power Design Inc

Data Center Knowledge

'At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from Power Design, Inc, which is seeking a Senior Electrical Designer - Mission Critical in Florida. Read More.

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Strategy vs. Execution

Future of CIO

Execution without strategy is purposeless. Strategy without execution is useless. A business strategy is a cohesive entity of programs, projects, and policies that concentrate and fuse corporate resources to enable an organization to establish, sustain and enhance its competitiveness and capabilities for self-renewal. It's about creating tomorrow's organization out of today.

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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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Oracle Releases OpenStack for Oracle Linux Into General Availability

Data Center Knowledge

'Software enables control of Oracle Linux and Oracle Virtual Machines through OpenStack in production Read More.

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Startup Saisei Unveils Real-Time Network Performance Management Solution

Data Center Knowledge

'Software offers full network traffic visibility and policy control and can be deployed on virtual machine instances or commodity x86 hardware Read More.

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Gartner Names Schneider, Emerson, CA, Nlyte DCIM Leaders

Data Center Knowledge

'In its first stab at the DCIM market, Gartner includes 17 vendors in Magic Quadrant for DCIM Read More.

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Digital Realty Partners With Carpathia to Sell Hybrid Infrastructure Solutions

Data Center Knowledge

'Data center company continues its quest to become more than just a big landlord Read More.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Verizon Adds Direct Links to AWS for Enterprise Clients

Data Center Knowledge

'Verizon is recognizing the importance of offering access to multiple cloud options to its enterprise customers Read More.

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DataTorrent Data Stream Processing Marries Pivotal Hadoop Distro

Data Center Knowledge

'Prominent Big Data startup a big win for Pivotal’s partner program Read More.

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