Mon.Apr 25, 2016

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Build or Lease? Creating the Best Data Center Strategy

Data Center Knowledge

Here’s what infrastructure pros need to know when making the most important decisions of their career Read More.

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What users love (and hate) about 4 leading firewall solutions

Network World

While always an integral part of a company’s security procedures, firewalls are becoming even more important as more companies move to the cloud and software defined networks. A firewall is a network security system that controls and monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic, based on preset security parameters. Firewalls create a barrier between a secure internal network and a potentially less-secure outside network.

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How Channel Partners Can Provide Strategic Value with the Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud is not a destination or singular path, but a transformation that places IT and its partners squarely at the center of the enterprise as both a leader and enabler of value creation. Read More.

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Which Enterprise HDDs to use for a Content Server Platform

Storage IO Blog

This posts looks at the Servers Direct (www.serversdirect.com) converged Content Solution platforms with Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD’s). I was given the opportunity to do some hands-on testing running different application workloads with a 2U content solution platform along with various Seagate Enterprise 2.5” HDD’s handle different application workloads.

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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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Microsoft Ramps up Cloud Data Center Spend

Data Center Knowledge

Last quarter saw second-biggest increase in capital spending since 2007 Read More.

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Part 3 – Which HDD for content applicaitons – Test Configuration

Storage IO Blog

This is the third in a multi-part series (read part two here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. The focus is looking at the Servers Direct (www.serversdirect.com) converged Content Solution platforms with Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD’s). In this post the focus expands to hardware and software defining as well as configuring the test environments along with applications workloads.

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“But those skills for using data to listen deeply have proved invaluable in my career” – Interview with Looker’s Daniel Mintz

Dataconomy

Daniel Mintz is the Chief Data Evangelist at Looker. Previously, he was Head of Data & Analytics at fast-growing media startup Upworthy and before that he was Director of Analytics at political powerhouse MoveOn.org. Throughout his career, Daniel has focused on how people interact with data in their everyday lives and. The post “But those skills for using data to listen deeply have proved invaluable in my career” – Interview with Looker’s Daniel Mintz appeared first o

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IT Innovators: Cloud Enables Masons of California to More Effectively Meet Member Needs

Data Center Knowledge

Learn how the public, private and hybrid cloud is enabling IT Innovation for one organization Read More.

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IT’s Digital Portfolio

Future of CIO

The purpose to manage a healthy IT digital portfolio is to run, grow, and transform business accordingly. IT plays a significant role in the business’s digital transformation journey. To reimagine IT potential, reinvent IT management and maximize IT value, it is important to build a balanced IT digital portfolio with a set of differentiated capabilities to enable business growth and improve IT and overall organizational operational excellence.

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Juniper Unveils New Software-Defined Secure Networks Offerings

Data Center Knowledge

New containerized SRX and virtual SRX provide enhanced firewall capabilities 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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Part 7 – HDDs for Content Applicaitons – HDDs continue to evolve

Storage IO Blog

This is the seventh and final post in this multi-part series (read part six here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. The focus is looking at the Servers Direct (www.serversdirect.com) converged Content Solution platforms with Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD’s).

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Five Mental Characteristics in Systems Thinking to Shape DIgital Leadership

Future of CIO

Systems Thinking has to do with the ability to see the whole, and the relationships between parts within those whole. Systems Thinking (ST) is the ability to navigate levels of abstraction or logic as an essential thinking skill. Most folks follow the conventional way of thinking, it is what they have always been taught and learned to do. But digital leaders need to understand things and circumstances in a more holistic way or think differently in order to clear the vision and navigate the uncha

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Part 6 – Which HDD for Content Applications – General I/O Performance

Storage IO Blog

This is the sixth in a multi-part series (read part five here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. The focus is looking at the Servers Direct (www.serversdirect.com) converged Content Solution platforms with Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD’s). In this post the focus is around general I/O performance including 8KB and 128KB IOP sizes.

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Langs Building Supplies ICT Manager heads to.NEXT

Nutanix

An Interview with Matthew Day, ICT & Support Manager at Langs Building Supplies

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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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Part 5 – Which HDD to use for a Content Applications – Large and Small Files

Storage IO Blog

This is the fifth in a multi-part series (read part four here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. The focus is looking at the Servers Direct (www.serversdirect.com) converged Content Solution platforms with Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD’s). In this post the focus looks at large and small file I/O processing.

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Nutanix at Citrix Synergy 2016: Enterprise Clouds for Applications and Desktops

Nutanix

2016 has been a very busy year for the VDI solution team here at Nutanix.

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Part 4 – Which HDD for Content Applications – Database Workloads

Storage IO Blog

This is the fourth in a multi-part series (read part three here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. The focus is looking at the Servers Direct (www.serversdirect.com) converged Content Solution platforms with Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD’s). In this post the focus expands to database application workloads that were run to test various HDD’s.

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Part 2 – Which HDD for Content Applications – How and What To Test

Storage IO Blog

This is the second in a multi-part series (read part one here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. The focus is looking at the Servers Direct (www.serversdirect.com) converged Content Solution platforms with Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD’s). In this post we look at some decisions and configuration choices to make for testing content applications servers as well as project planning.

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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.