Tue.May 26, 2015

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Thwarting the Risk of Malicious Attacks on Medical Devices

CTOvision

Wearers and users of medical devices may not be aware of their risk of having their device hacked. The software used to operate medical devices is vulnerable to malicious attacks. According to one recent report in particular, the attacks might: impede or alter a device’s function, leak sensitive data, or otherwise cause the device to depart from its specified behavior.

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Next-Generation Cloud and the Power of the Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

With more reliance on the data center, find out how consolidation, going greener, and new ways to network are creating a more powerful cloud architecture Read More.

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7012 Regs and Cyber insurance on collision course with small business

CTOvision

Editor's note: This post first appeared at MKHamiltonAssociates.com and is republished here with the permission of the author. - bg. Part One: What are the “7012” regulations? Defense Acquisition Regulation Supplement 252.204-7012. In November 2013, the US Department of Defense issued final rules to its defense acquisition regulations. Defense Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) section 252.204-7012 now requires contractors to safeguard information that is deemed Unclassified, but controll

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Hadoop and Big Data Storage: The Challenge of Overcoming the Science Project

Data Center Knowledge

Enabling the 'science' of big data appears to be one of the biggest challenges for IT enterprises. In order for projects of this nature to evolve into viable, efficient solutions, it will take as much rethinking from vendors as it will from the companies deploying these solutions. The gap between.

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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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Discount Code For The June 25-27 O’Reilly Solid Conference

CTOvision

The O’Reilly Solid Conference. The O’Reilly Solid Conference is returning to San Francisco’s waterfront June 23 - 25. Solid is unique: a mash-up of MIT and Disneyland for the IoT that combines deep, intelligent conversations about vital issues like security, business models, and standards; along with discussions with demos of some of the coolest devices and technologies that exist—or are imagined—today.

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Innovation needs process change

Eric D. Brown

Jeffrey Philips currently wrote a nice piece titled “ Innovate your processes before innovating your products ” over on his excellent Innovate on Purpose blog. In that article, Jeffrey argues that before a company can innovate its products/services, it must innovate its processes if it hopes to build a sustainable edge via innovation over its competition.

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TT 16: The death of software-defined

Virtualized Greek

In a little over a year, I believe we will see the term Software-Defined disappear. Hear my thoughts on what will happen to software-defined solutions by looking at Cisco’s ACI. In a little over a year, I believe we will see the term Software-Defined disappear. Hear my thoughts on what will happen to software-defined solutions by looking at Cisco's ACI.

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Firefighters Put Out Fire at Future Apple Data Center in Arizona

Data Center Knowledge

Investigators suspect incident was caused by problem with solar panels Read More.

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VMware vCloud Air Server StorageIOlab Test Drive with videos

Storage IO Blog

VMware vCloud Air provides a platform similar to those just mentioned among others for your applications and their underlying resource needs (compute, memory, storage, networking) to be fulfilled. In addition, it should not be a surprise that VMware vCloud Air shares many common themes, philosophies and user experiences with the traditional on-premise based VMware solutions you may be familiar with.

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VMware Doubles Size of EVO:RAIL Clusters

Data Center Knowledge

Vendor positioning EVO:RAIL as building blocks of software-defined data centers Read More.

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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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Do you think IT is well Positioned to be the Innovation Nerve Center of the Organization?

Future of CIO

As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization’s expectation from IT through an innovation lenses. The traditional role of CIOs is to manage information, IT systems, and cost, now with information is permeating into every corner of business and digital technologies are more often the cause of innovation disruption, IT has itself transformed to create a new competitive advantage, new products, and new services.

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Ciena Intros Data Center Interconnect for Web Scale

Data Center Knowledge

Claims more capacity per rack than other products on the market Read More.

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Bootstrapping Servers into Ansible

Scott Lowe

As part of a lab rebuild I’ve been doing over the last few weeks (funny how hardware failures can lead to a lab rebuild), I’ve been expanding the use of Ansible for configuration automation. In this post, I’m going to share the process I’ve created for bootstrapping newly-built servers into Ansible. I developed this Ansible bootstrapping process to work in conjunction with the fully automated Ubuntu installation method that I described in an earlier post.

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Equinix Expanding Two Hong Kong Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Plans to invest $40M to add room for 1,200 cabinets total 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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Rubrik and Converged Data Management

Scott Lowe

Rubrik today announced a new Series B investment (of $41 million) and introduced their r300 Series Hybrid Cloud Appliance, powered by what they’re touting as a “Converged Data Management” platform. Wow—that’s a mouthful, isn’t it? It sounds a bit like buzzword bingo, but after having spent a bit of time talking to Rubrik last week, there are some interesting (in my opinion) things going on here.

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Critical Thinking vs. Creative Thinking in Workplace

Future of CIO

Critical thinking narrows and creative thinking expands, they must work in tandem for problem-solving and decision making. Both critical thinking and creative thinking are vital in a workplace. These skills hand in hand help drive the growth of an organization and its employees as well as enable effectiveness (doing the right things or framing the right questions) efficiency (doing things right) and agility (ability to adapt to the changes) in solving problems and making decisions.

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