Fri.Apr 29, 2016

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Big Data is Here and Getting Bigger

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Katie Kennedy. As a supercomputer maker, Cray has been delivering the massive analytic processing power required by scientists and engineers for the last 40 years. Today, they've harnessed those decades of know-how in their data analytics and data discovery solutions. Urika ® -GD Graph Discovery Appliance. Addresses the most complex problems in advanced analytics — interactive data discovery with graphs.

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IoT Past and Present: The History of IoT, and Where It’s Headed Today

Data Center Knowledge

The history of the modern Internet of Things (IoT) dates back to the 1990s, yet IoT has evolved hugely since then, thanks especially to the cloud Read More.

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Arizona State University Adopts Hortonworks Data Platform to Shed Light on the Genetic Links to Cancer

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Katie Kennedy. Recently announced, Arizona State University (ASU) is using Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP™) to further cancer research. With HDP, ASU researchers have the tools they need to store, process, and query more data at a faster pace, allowing researchers to ask better questions and uncover new links between genetics and cancer. ASU has put an emphasis on innovative approaches to research such as with its Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (CASI).

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CoreSite Shares Spike as Cloud Data Center Leasing Accelerates

Data Center Knowledge

REITs under pressure to deliver lots of capacity in top markets for hyperscale cloud giants 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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Tech News Roundup April 29

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Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Startup Spotlight: Fig Loans offers alternative to payday loans with more long-term benefits. Windows users get Facebook, Instagram, Messenger updates for latest Microsoft OS. Amazon’s cloud computing cash cow: AWS, now a $10B business, fuels record quarter for company.

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IT Innovators: Keeping Medical Data Secure and Business Moving Forward by Increasing Efficiencies

Data Center Knowledge

Find out the techniques and philosophy one company is employing to maximize its productivity and save money, without compromising its risk posture Read More.

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FBI to Build Data Center in Idaho

Data Center Knowledge

Facility will likely become one of bureau’s three core enterprise data centers Read More.

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Survey: Are mobile devices a security risk at your company?

Tech Republic Security

Mobile devices offer powerful productivity, but there is also the risk of security breaches. Tech Pro Research's survey looks at the best practices for securing these devices.

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Big Cloud Provider Pre-Leases Digital’s Entire First Japan Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

Competition among top cloud providers fuels boom for data center companies Read More.

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Installing Ansible 2.x in a Python Virtualenv on OS X

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’m going to walk you through the steps to install Ansible 2.x into a Python virtual environment (virtualenv) on OS X. There’s nothing terribly hard or unusual about this process, but I wanted to document it here for folks who might be new to the process (or who might be interested in why using this approach could be beneficial). I’m stumbled into this process because I had been using Ansible 1.9.x and wanted to upgrade to Ansible 2.x so that I could use some of the new OpenStack -

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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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Server StorageIO April 2016 Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

April is a busy time of the year, both at work and in the industry, as well as at home. Needless to say that there is a lot going on as you will see in this April 2016 edition of the Server StorageIO Update newsletter. Highlights at a glance include: OpenStack Mitaka release (see other release information here) Ceph 10.2.0 aka Jewel released including CephFS for NAS file serving Micron announces new NVM flash-based SSD including NVMe, SAS and SATA Intel announces new faster Broadwell based proce

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How to Use Cohort Data to Analyze User Behavior

Dataconomy

In the world of data analysis, one tool is often left unused. While being a very powerful analytics tool, cohorts are often pushed aside due to their seemingly complex nature. With a lot to offer in the way of data analysis, let’s take a deeper (yet simplified) look into cohorts. The post How to Use Cohort Data to Analyze User Behavior appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Three “Aha Moment” of an Innovative IT

Future of CIO

IT can become a true innovation engine when it can not only grasp new business opportunities but also discover and grow more innovators to multiply creativity effect. IT must be managed in two ways; the utility side of the house where IT constantly drives costs lower; the second being business innovation which is the only way to lift IT from commoditized service to strategic partner; from the cost center to value creator; and from the reactive service provider to the proactive game changer.

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Empowering Cloud Utilization in the Federal Market

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Katie Kennedy. Bright Computing has just released a white paper on "Empowering Cloud Utilization in the Federal Market.". This white paper addresses: Cloud adoption among government and defense agencies lags behind uptake in the enterprise. In the U.S. for example, despite a federal “Cloud First” mandate, government organizations are proceeding to the cloud cautiously.

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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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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection How to Set Priority Right to Run a Digital IT Apr. 2016

Future of CIO

Debating is not for stimulating conflicts, but for brainstorming better ways to do things. Due to the changing nature of technology, IT leadership role also continues to involve & shift the focus, to move up the maturity level. More and more CIOs are requested to take more responsibility and many CIOs present the breadth of leadership competency.

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Foto Friday – Burrowing Owls playing Peak-A-Boo

Eric D. Brown

A capture of a Burrowing Owl Couple checking things out from their hole. Captured with Canon 7D Mark II and Canon 100-400 Mark II. 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 purchasing a copy for your wall and/or visiting Amazon (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.

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