Tue.Apr 15, 2014

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Servers as Radiators: Can a Data Center Heat Stockholm?

Data Center Knowledge

'Sweden''s Bahnhof are known for creating offbeat data center designs, including a subterranean bunker designed to look like the lair of a James Bond villain.Now the company is talking about recycling the heat generated from the data center to heat surrounding housing. Read More.

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How To Question Developers and Learn What is Really Going On

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Anyone who''s ever worked with me knows that I love spending time with developers. I will ask simple questions, "What are you working on?", "Can I see the code?", "Who is also working on this requirement and what are they doing?", and my favorite question, "How will your work help customers?". This is far more than just getting in touch with the staff and understanding what''s going on.

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DCK Survey: What’s Your Cooling Profile?

Data Center Knowledge

'Cooling has become even more important as the data hall becomes more and more crowded with high-density servers and equipment. What cooling solution do you use? We are asking Data Center Knowledge readers to complete a short survey on cooling. Read More.

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EMC and VMware are disrupting Server SAN

Virtualized Greek

'The Server SAN market is pretty new but VMware and EMC have already started disrupting the market. Both VMware and EMC have entered the competition of hyper-converged infrastructures or more specifically the Server SAN market with purely software plays. VMware with an impressive solution called VSAN (not vSAN) built around their vSphere hypervisor solution.

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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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Google Out of Space at 111 8th, Eyes More Manhattan Real Estate

Data Center Knowledge

'Just three years after buying one of the largest buildings in Manhattan, Google is apparently running out of office space at 111 8th Avenue and is once again scouting Manhattan real estate. Read More.

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Which is the best way to demonstrate Multidimensional IT value

Future of CIO

In order to demonstrate IT value, organizations need to first know wherein lies the IT value Many IT organizations are at the crossroad, some high-performing IT organizations have built a solid value proposition and moved up its maturity to become the game changer and business catalyst for their companies. However, the majority of IT organizations get stuck in the lower-level of maturity and struggle to prove their unique value, for helping the business gain competitive advantage.

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Nutanix OS 4.0 Brings Web-scale Infrastructure to the Enterprise

Nutanix

It’s an exciting day for Nutanix, one that marks a significant milestone in the company’s journey to disrupt the traditional enterprise IT market. Today, we announced the fourth major release of the Nutanix Operating System, the intelligent software powering the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform.

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Virtualization Security: The Goldilocks Zone

Data Center Knowledge

'Security is, at its core, an architectural issue, one that may be solvable through the technology at the very center of IT transformation: virtualization, writes Tom Korn of VMware. Read More.

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Westland, Evolve Team on 12 Megawatt Expansion of Houston Bunker

Data Center Knowledge

'The Westland Bunker and Evolve Data Center Solutions are teaming to build a second data center for the Westland Campus, an ultra-secure data center campus outside of Houston. Read More.

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Big Data News: MapR Partners With Databricks

Data Center Knowledge

'MapR adds Apache Spark technology to its distribution, TIBCO advances its ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks integration solution, and Cloudera adds resources to its Cloudera Connect Partner Program to provide deeper levels of engagement. 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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Chef Announces Sales and Ecosystem Growth at #ChefConf

Data Center Knowledge

'Chef, a leading provider in the mega-scale IT automation sector, which is holding #ChefConf in San Francisco this week, is growing its sales and expanding both its platform and ecosystem. Read More.

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Top 5 Data Center and IT Lessons Learned from the Cloud Giants

Data Center Knowledge

'Take advantage of others'' lessons learned. Find out the top 5 data center lessons learned from the largest cloud giants. Read More.