Mon.Oct 13, 2014

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Strata Hadoop World 2014: Watch Live Streaming Here

CTOvision

'If you could not make it to Strata-Hadoop World 2014 in NYC you can still watch streaming video of the keynotes. To do that visit our Hadoop World video streaming page here: https://ctovision.com/strata-hadoop-world-2014-watch-live-streaming-here/. Be sure to bookmark it! Here is the schedule of keynotes: Thursday Keynote Welcome. 8:45am–8:55am Thursday, 10/16/2014.

Big Data 276
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EMC Buys OpenStack Cloud Builder Cloudscaling

Data Center Knowledge

'As provider of enterprise clouds that integrate with big public IaaS clouds, Cloudscaling is a direct competitor to VMware Read More.

Cloud 245
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Some Graphical Context on Passwords: Are their days numbered?

CTOvision

'The graphic below from Ping Identity provides some interesting context on passwords in cyber security. The use of passwords as a first line of defense is a faulty security posture. Statistics prove that relying on our ability to create unique, but easy to remember passwords for 10, 20 or even more applications is too difficult. Further, imposing password standards actually encourages insecure user behavior and results in frustrated users and gaping security holes.

CTO 272
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Data Center Trends Featured at Orlando Data Center World

Data Center Knowledge

'Keeping up with the ever-evolving technology and facilities trends in the data center industry can sometimes be challenging. To that end, data center managers and staff attend industry conferences to gain critical knowledge. This year, Data Center Knowledge is helping with that effort, by curating.

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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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Pew Report: Gigabit Connectivity & Vivid Telepresence

CTOvision

'On 9 October 2014, Pew Research Center published a report , “Killer Apps in the Gigabit Age”, to share conclusions from a study that surveyed hundreds of information technology experts in order to identify and understand the implications of higher gigabit connectivity in our future. Participants responded to the question, “Will there be new, distinctive, and uniquely compelling technology applications that capitalize upon significant increases in bandwidth in the US between now and 2025?

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Key Components of Data Center Optimization

Data Center Knowledge

'IT infrastructure makes up a large part of a company’s cost and the biggest chunk can be traced to the data center, writes Prashant Baweja of Infosys Ltd. With increasing cost, effort and focus need to be on optimizing the data center. Read More.

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Salesforce Gets Into Cloud Business Intelligence Market

Data Center Knowledge

'Rolls out Wave, a business intelligence service designed for mere mortals Read More.

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DoD Cyber Force Organization: Like the Paul Simon Song, Still Crazy After All These Years

CTOvision

'DoD continues to struggle to put their Cyber Force organization and governance in place. Paul Simon nailed it! Still Crazy… after all these years…. Last week we talked about all the money and effort Army is going through to stand up their new Cyber Army. This week, Navy announced the initial operational capability (IOC) of their new Information Dominance Forces (NAVIDFOR) Command in Suffolk, VA.

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Why Convergence?

Eric D. Brown

'“This post is brought to you by End-to-End Solutions for IT Pros and Dell.”. When I talk to clients about the technology and systems challenges being faced within their organization, I tend to hear a wide variety of responses. Challenges within the data center seem to exist in just about every client discussion. These challenges revolve around a myriad of issues but most can be categorized into areas like efficiency, energy usage, management, agility and utilization.

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The New Nanny Pepper 

CTOvision

'Chasing children around can be tough for human nannies, a Japanese technology company has addressed the problem with their new robot nanny Pepper. SoftBank, the technology megacorporation, has created Pepper, the first robot that can read human emotions. The robot is designed to ‘learn’ by recognising positive emotions and adjusting its behaviour autonomously in response.

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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 to Shut Down a Legacy Service without Losing Customers

Data Center Knowledge

'In the context of a competitive fight over market share, it was an understandable strategic decision by EMC to shut down its Atmos cloud storage service back in 2010. Read More.

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The Cyber Threat and the Role of Cyber Intelligence in Defending Your Organization

CTOvision

'The Cyber Threat is a booklet published to succinctly articulate the nature of the cyber threat in ways designed to help business leaders come to terms with the nature of this phenomenon. The book is available on Amazon (and is free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers). The book provides a high level overview of cyber threats to business interests, discusses the important lessons history can teach us regarding the threat, and then provides actionable suggestions on ways to enhance your organizat

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Seagate Leads $15M Series B for Hybrid Storage Startup Reduxio

Data Center Knowledge

'Israeli vendor''s system combines disk and SSD and features patent-pending compression, deduplication and automatic tiering technology Read More.

Storage 197
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The Starting Point to Design Business Model

Future of CIO

The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture, and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation. The business model design is one of the critical types of innovation that enable business growth and compete for the future. However, most of such effort fails to achieve the expected result. The good start is halfway to succeed, what’s the starting point to design business model?

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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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QTS Brings Mega Data Center in Dallas-Fort Worth Online

Data Center Knowledge

'Expands its model of buying large properties on the cheap and retrofitting them into mega data centers to DFW market Read More.

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Serendipity vs. Innovation

Future of CIO

Serendipity is perhaps like a seed, it will sprout up, just at this moment, you don’t know what it grows to be. Serendipity has been voted as one of the most popular words in the English language. It is also one of the hardest to translate. Conversationally, it is used as tantamount to luck, providence or chance. What’s the correlation between serendipity and innovation, are all innovations serendipitous, or serendipity puzzle can be debunked through thinking innovatively?

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Explaining the Community Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'Beyond private, public and hybrid cloud, there is now a fourth model Read More.

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Learning NSX, Part 16: Routing to Multiple External VLANs

Scott Lowe

'This is part 16 of the Learning NSX series, in which I will show you how to configure VMware NSX to route to multiple external VLANs. This configuration will allow you to have logical routers that could be uplinked to any of the external VLANs, providing additional flexibility for consumers of NSX logical networks. Naturally, this post builds on all the previous entries in this series, so I encourage you to visit the Learning NVP/NSX page for links to previous posts.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Startup Zoomdata Raises $17M to Push Real-Time “Sharpening” Approach to Big Data

Data Center Knowledge

'Accel leads Series B for firm with patented technology that updates visualizations in real time as it crunches numbers Read More.

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SDN Startup Fiber Mountain Emerges from Stealth

Data Center Knowledge

'Pitches software-controlled any-to-any-port fiber optic connectivity across all data center devices Read More.