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How OPM Could Have Avoided the Data Breach

CTOvision

Recently, a data breach at the Office of Personnel Management ( OPM ) demonstrated once again the vulnerability of data and how even when an organization has seemingly deployed the right tools, security holes can be exploited to gain access to highly sensitive information. OPM is the federal organization responsible for maintaining and protecting the federal records for all federal employees and contractors.

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Defining Best Practices around Data Center Growth Strategies

Data Center Knowledge

Your business is growing; and so is your data center. Find out the best practices around data center growth and how to directly align your ecosystem with your business. Read More.

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Is Social Media Right For Your Small Business?

Cloud Musings

Everyone from pre-teens to granddads, does social media today. With Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and many newer ways to stay in the know popping up every day, picking the right platform can be a difficult task. While the personal value of this modern convenience seems obvious to most, the task of proving the channel’s worth to a business can be very challenging.

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Modernizing and Standardizing Data Centers with Converged Infrastructure and Modular Systems

Data Center Knowledge

To modernize and upgrade data center operations to meet the high demand of today’s data-laden world, businesses can look to leverage converged IT infrastructure and the prefabricated physical infrastructure modules to support it. 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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A Fix for Ubuntu Apparently Caching Network Configuration

Scott Lowe

I’ve been wrestling with an Ubuntu network configuration issue over the last couple of weeks (off and on between working on other projects), and today I finally found a fix for the problem. The issue was that Ubuntu wouldn’t pick up changes to network interfaces. The fix is so simple I’m almost embarrassed to talk about it (it seems like something that I should have known), but I’m posting it here in case others run into the same issue.

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Amazon to Build Cloud Data Centers in India

Data Center Knowledge

AWS chief Andy Jassy expects India to become one of Amazon's largest cloud regions Read More.

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Net Data Centers Selling New Jersey, Virginia Data Centers to Exit Bankruptcy

Data Center Knowledge

Successful sale likely to be good news for bankrupt firm's wholesale data center landlords Read More.

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Do the Rules Stifle innovation

Future of CIO

Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance. Innovation is to transform the novel idea and achieve its business value. It is a business discipline which can be managed. In many organizations, perhaps there is an innovation department specifically setting the rules to take charge of innovation. The paradox is that all creative activities are subversive in questioning the status quo.

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Enterprises Say Cloud Providers Don’t Understand Their Needs: Report

Data Center Knowledge

Lack of transparency hurting enterprise cloud customers, and ultimately cloud providers as well Read More.

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An Anti-Digital Mind: A Bureaucratic Thinking

Future of CIO

Bureaucratic thinking generates negative energy which stops organizations from moving forward. The word "bureaucracy" is often seen in pejorative circumstances. Though, its roots being: bureau(fr) = desk and kratos(gr) = rules/ power, it can embrace different meaning: According to dictionary.com, bureaucratic is “a system of administration based upon organization into bureaus, division of labor, a hierarchy of authority, etc, designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.

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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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Emerson to Spin Off Data Center Infrastructure Business

Data Center Knowledge

Hopes more agility will improve slumping data center and telco gear sales Read More.

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Digital Strategy Tuning: How to Make Good Business ‘Assumptions’

Future of CIO

"Assumptions" should be thought of as qualified projections rather than the best guess. Running a business is a thorny journey, with a lot of uncertainty, complexity, and velocity on the way, what are basic business ‘assumptions’ mostly flawed or invalid when preparing business strategic planning? And how can organizational leaders make a continuous adjustment to ensure the business is “doing the right things” before doing things right, framing the right questions before answering them right?

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Cisco Acquires Enterprise Security Firm OpenDNS

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud-based security services provider valued at $635 million Read More.

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Can Police BodyCam Video be Public while protecting Privacy?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray launches bodycam Workshop. You have a serious car accident. The police arrive and investigate. They issue a citation and write a report. The officers are wearing body-worn video cameras and their cars have dashcam video. At the end of the event the officer gives you a code. The next day you go online to the police department’s website, key in the code and all the materials regarding the collision are available to you – the videos, with a written transcript, the offi

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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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Uber Buys Microsoft Data Center, Map Imaging Operation

Data Center Knowledge

Microsoft says deal one of many steps taken to focus on core strategy Read More.

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Justifying the Cost of DCIM

Data Center Knowledge

There are quantifiable and “priceless” benefits to DCIM, but the degree varies Read More.

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