Wed.Dec 17, 2014

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Examining New Mission-Focused Capabilities Coming From The Cloudera And Intel Engineering Partnership

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The video at this link and embedded below captures the content and dialog of a webinar which examined new capabilities of Cloudera and Intel , with a focus on capabilities that provide a full stack solution to many key enterprise mission needs. The webinar included insights by Cloudera’s Senior Director of Technology Webster Mudge and Intel’s Enterprise Technology Specialist Ed Herold, plus questions from an informed audience.

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Undertaking the Challenge to Reduce the Data Center Carbon Footprint

Data Center Knowledge

'Data centers have come under intense scrutiny from environmental groups because of their significant contribution to carbon emissions, writes Brian Lavallée of Ciena. However, there are multiple strategies and tactics that organizations can adopt in order to reduce their energy consumption. Read.

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The quotable @ScottMcNealy said: Trying to run a business without awareness of the cyber threat is asking to be fired

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The book The Cyber Threat was written to provide business and government executives insight into the nature of the dynamic adversaries attacking our networks. Understanding the Cyber Threat is critical to preparing your defenses prior to attack and also instrumental in mounting a defense during attack. Reading this book will teach you things your adversaries wish you did not know and in doing so will enhance your ability to defend against cyber attack.

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IBM adds 12 Cloud Data Centers, Endorses OpenStack Throughout

Data Center Knowledge

'IBM''s hybrid cloud strategy is shaping up around openness, but will its legacy business suffer? Read More.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Your Enterprise has too many Cyber-ish People

CTOvision

'By John Scott. Cyber has been called the ultimate team sport: CIOs, CTOs, SysAdmins, Software Developers, CISOs, threat teams, red teams, testing groups, etc. etc, but really should it be? It seems more like a jobs program that moves headcount from one part of the enterprise to the expensive nerdy-side. Sitting through a number of presentations at various cyber conferences recently I’m struck that many enterprises cyber security planning comes down to having ‘the best people’

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IBM SoftLayer Joins Equinix Cloud Exchange

Data Center Knowledge

'APIs replace manual cross-connects for hybrid enterprise cloud deployments Read More.

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European Space Agency Picks Orange Business Services for Private Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'The European Space Agency (ESA) chooses France-based Orange Business Services to deploy and manage its private cloud. Read More.

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Why The Singapore Stock Exchange Problem Is The CIO’s Fault

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Bad things have been happening at the Singapore Stock Exchange Image Credit: Reuters. Stock exchanges are challenging businesses to run. The people who use stock exchanges, stock traders, banks, brokers, etc. move very fast. The phrase “time is money” was invented to describe these people. They have a desperate need to be able to communicate with other people in a very rapid and very reliable way.

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Western Digital Buys All-Flash Storage Array Maker Skyera

Data Center Knowledge

'Storage giant digging further into data center market, advancing solid state business with latest acquisition Read More.

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How the Internet of Things Can Improve Environmental Sustainability

The Investing Edge

'I’m a graduate of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell and sit on the board of Change is Simple , a non-profit devoted to educating the next generation to become thoughtful and aware of environmental issues and social responsibility. I also surf as frequently as possible, when I can find free time, literally immersing myself as often as I can in the power of nature.

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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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Host Europe Group Acquires Intergenia

Data Center Knowledge

'Oakley Capital Investments agrees to dispose of Intergenia Holding GMBH and its subsidiaries to Host Europe. Read More.

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DIY converged server software defined storage on a budget using Lenovo TS140

Storage IO Blog

'Do you need or want to do a Do It Yourself (DIY) build of a small server compute cluster, or a software defined storage cluster (e.g. scale-out), or perhaps a converged storage for VMware VSAN, Microsoft SOFS or something else? Do you need a new server, second or third server, or expand a cluster, create a lab or similar and want the ability to tailor your system without shopping or a motherboard, enclosure, power supply and so forth?

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Why HP is Investing a Lot in the OpenStack Project

Data Center Knowledge

'Company wants to have robust cloud core with plug-ins for everything Read More.

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Installing a VMware Workstation lab – Part 1 Video

Virtualized Greek

'I decided to create walk-thru’s to Johnathan Frappier’s #vDM30in30 labs. While I have no intention in doing 30 videos in 30 days Johnathan has laid out a very good framework for setting up a lab and I thought video walk-thu’s.

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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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MongoDB Acquires WiredTiger and its Open Source Storage Engine

Data Center Knowledge

'Technology expected to improve hardware efficiency of NoSQL database Read More.

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Nutanix – The First Five Years and Beyond

Nutanix

Over the last five years, we have made significant progress in our journey, thanks to our incredible ecosystem of believers – the community of employees, customers, partners, investors, analysts, and technology advocates, who have been core to our success, every step of the way.

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Arista Launches Network Automation Software for DevOps

Data Center Knowledge

'SDN firm says new software platform represents evolution of EOS Read More.

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Holistic Thinking vs. Mechanistic Thinking

Future of CIO

Mechanical thinking focuses on “what,” and holistic thinking digs into “why.” At the industrial age, the mechanical mind is a “mainstream” thinking process to solve the problems via reductionism, it may work well because the business environment does not change so dramatically, and the organization or the whole world were running in a silo. However, digital means flow, hyper-connectivity and interdependence, the holistic thinking which requires interdisciplinary knowledge and systematic approach

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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.