Fri.May 15, 2015

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New ISACA Guide Explores Turbulent Cybersecurity Environment For Industrial Control Systems

CTOvision

ISACA, a global professional association serving 140,000 professionals, has published a new guide about the current cybersecurity threat for industrial control systems (ICS). Titled “ Industrial Control Systems: A Primer for the Rest of Us ” the guide takes a deeper look at ICS and why security practitioners face a daunting challenge in defending an infrastructure that is often full of antiquated technology.

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Virtualization – A Look to the Future

Data Center Knowledge

The data center industry has moved way beyond simple server virtualization, and is exploring new avenues to make virtualization an even more powerful platform. Let’s take a look at some of these newer approaches to virtualization. Read More.

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Datameer and Cloudera Webinar 19 May: Finding Fraud, Waste, and Abuse through Big Data Analytics

CTOvision

At 11am EDT Carahsoft is hosting a webinar featuring Datameer and Cloudera diving into ways to find waste, fraud and abuse through big data analytics. From the webinar page: Finding Fraud, Waste, and Abuse through Big Data Analytics with Cloudera and Datameer. Cloudera and Datameer invite you to attend a complimentary webinar, hosted by Carahsoft, on how to use Apache Hadoop for Big Data discovery of fraud, waste, and abuse.

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IBM Research Unveils Silicon Photonics Chip Capable of 100Gbps

Data Center Knowledge

Making a big step forward in silicon photonics, IBM Research designed and tested a fully integrated wavelength multiplexed silicon photonics chip, which fully enables the use of pulses of light instead of electrical signals over wires to move data. 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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Answer to the same old boring vendor conference sessions

Virtualized Greek

I don’t attend many sessions at conferences like VMWorld. Mainly because it’s some lightweight messaging that I’ve heard at other conferences. Lisa Caywood (Brocade) had an interesting post on the cancer that’s vendor sponsorship at conferences. She asked for an.

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Google’s Wholesale Move To Cloud and Take On Security Makes Cloud Apps Enterprise-Friendly

Data Center Knowledge

Google is moving all of its internal apps to the cloud and changing the security in tow. Access is defined at the user and device level rather than network. Read More.

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Cost of Data Breaches and Cybercrime Will Top $2 Trillion by 2019

Data Center Knowledge

By 2019 the cost of cybercrime and data breaches will rise to $2.1 trillion dollars, according to a new study released by Juniper Research Read More.

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An Understanding Mind

Future of CIO

An understandable mind is a step closer to innovation, and two inches deeper to wisdom. Knowledge is attaining facts, information, and skills by an individual gained through experience, education or a combination of both. Knowledge and wisdom have a long history of philosophy and philosophers. From Aristotle to Descartes to Nozick have defended theories of wisdom that require a "wise person" to have knowledge of some sort.

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Commvault Extends Data Protection to the Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

Commvault trying to eliminate data center and public cloud silos that wind up making deploying a data protection strategy involving public clouds a lot more complex than it should be. Read More.

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Multi-Vendor Hybrid Cloud Solution

Nutanix

Ever since AWS took off in 2006, cloud computing has been growing in maturity and adoption. The adoption rates have steadily been increasing, and in its 2015 State of the Cloud report, RightScale found that 93% of organizations have already adopted cloud in some form – private, public or hybrid.

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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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Cirba Adds KVM Support to IT Analytics Software

Data Center Knowledge

In recognition of rising use of OpenStack, analytics and automation provider Cirba added support for Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) hypervisor on which the framework was first built. Read More.

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Packing My Bags For Prague and Dimension Data #Perspectives2015

Cloud Musings

Prague is a beautiful city! My last time was in June 2010 when Jeremy Geelan invited me to speak at CloudExpo Europe (see my blog post and video from that trip at " CloudExpo Europe 2010: Not Your Father's Prague "). And yes, that is the same Jeremy Geelan that is currently enduring the terrible earthquakes in Nepal (see my recent post on that in " Tweeps Are People Too!!

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NetCracker 10 Drives Convergence of IT and OSS

Data Center Knowledge

NetCracker upgraded its namesake management platform in bid to speed convergence of traditional IT and operational support systems Read More.

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Packing My Bags For Prague and Dimension Data #Perspectives2015

Cloud Musings

Prague is a beautiful city! My last time was in June 2010 when Jeremy Geelan invited me to speak at CloudExpo Europe (see my blog post and video from that trip at " CloudExpo Europe 2010: Not Your Father's Prague "). And yes, that is the same Jeremy Geelan that is currently enduring the terrible earthquakes in Nepal (see my recent post on that in " Tweeps Are People Too!!

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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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Friday Funny: Pick the Best Caption for Help Wanted

Data Center Knowledge

Looks like Kip and Gary may be getting some help? What should the bubble say? Read More.

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Foto Friday – Tent Rocks Slot Canyon Part 3

Eric D. Brown

Yet another photo from our trip to the Tent Rocks Slot Canyon in the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. Captured with Canon 7D Mark II with Canon 17-40L. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my 500px portfolio. If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by visiting Amazon (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.

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How to Detail Change Management Process

Future of CIO

Organizations are a huge melting pot of various personalities and diverse mindsets. Change becomes the new normal. However, in some organizations, the management team lives in an illusional world when they 'assume' that their employees will accept change in a gracious manner. Obviously, it doesn't work. How would you go about detailing a 'Change Management' Process?