Thu.Nov 20, 2014

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Controlling Big Data and the Cloud – A Look at Object Storage and HP

Data Center Knowledge

'Learn how HP ProLiant servers create a comprehensive and cost-effective object storage solution to address an organization’s next-generation scale-out storage and business needs. Read More.

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Note to Self – Don’t say “Data Driven” Anymore

Eric D. Brown

'Jim Harris just wrote a nice piece titled “ It’s not about being Data Driven ” over on his wonderful Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality Blog. If you don’t have Jim’s blog on your radar, you should…he does great work over there. In this recent post, Jim writes about the difference between being ‘data-driven’ and using data to make better decisions.

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Photo Tour: New Facebook Data Center in Iowa

Data Center Knowledge

'Social network shares photos of its latest and greatest data center, and it''s beautiful Read More.

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A Digital High-Performing Mind

Future of CIO

A high-performing digital mind can think logically, but outside of the box as well; do the right things and do things right. At industrial age, the performance is mainly evaluated via quantitative result, can you just take the order to do things right? However, digital means change, customer centricity, options and beyond. The workplace of the new digital era simply won't accommodate a lot of your former beliefs about how your job and organizations ought to work.

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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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Six Crucial Attributes of a High-Performance In-Memory Architecture

Data Center Knowledge

'The move from disk-based to memory-based data architectures requires a robust in-memory data management architecture, writes Fabien Sanglier of Software AG Government Solutions. Here are six crucial attributes to address when evaluating in-memory data management solutions. Read More.

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Are we in a Knowledge Economy, Creativity Economy or still in the economy of scarcity

Future of CIO

Knowledge and creativity are the two faces of same coin innovation. Digital is the age of Big Data, information is the abstracted data, and knowledge is the abstracted information. Are we moving to the knowledge economy from the economy of scarcity? Digital is also the era of options, and options are built through creativity, so are we really witnessing a SHIFT from the 'knowledge economy' to a 'creativity economy' as well, or are we simply talking about the role that creativity plays in the cre

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Managing Mobile Business Insecurities

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Today is the age of the smartphones. Hundreds of millions of individuals own smartphones and use them for everyday tasks. More and more companies are moving towards an adoption of a BYOD (bring your own device) strategy. But with the escalation of smartphones, there is a proportionate security risk rise. Some critically important statistics on this new age of the smartphone have been captured in an info graphic by Ping Identity.

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Verizon Launches Marketplace as One-Stop Cloud Shop for Enterprises

Data Center Knowledge

'Verizon announces its globally available Cloud Marketplace. Will provide one-stop shop for enterprises on Verizon Cloud. Read More.

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China Ramps Up Censorship as it Hosts World Internet Conference

Data Center Knowledge

'China will take down its firewall in just one city for three days while it hosts the World Internet Conference. Read More.

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Microsoft Says Config. Change Caused Azure Outage

Data Center Knowledge

'Standard protocol for applying changes was not followed 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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Latisys Signs First Tenant for Chicago Data Center Expansion

Data Center Knowledge

'Social science research organization NORC consolidates two on-prem data centers into Latisys facility Read More.

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Rackspace Chairman Buys $2.5M of Company Stock

Data Center Knowledge

'Files plans to buy that much again, citing confidence in company’s future Read More.

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Dept. of Energy Gives AMD $32M Grant to Push Exascale Computing Forward

Data Center Knowledge

'Chipmaker receives third government supercomputing grant to fund APU, memory research Read More.

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Facebook’s Open Source Virtual Machine HHVM Stabilized

Data Center Knowledge

'By running PHP and HHVM on single server, PHP takes over when HHVM needs to reset 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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IBM Rolls Out Dedicated Version of Bluemix PaaS

Data Center Knowledge

'PaaS that sports Watson APIs and IoT capabilities now available as a single-tenant service, hosted on SoftLayer Read More.

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