Wed.Oct 22, 2014

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Technology News and Hot Topics

CTOvision

'Here is some of the technology news we are tracking from across the tech community: Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015. Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. We deliver the technology-related insight necessary for our clients to make the right decisions, every day.

Big Data 272
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How New Types of DDoS Affect the Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'As more infrastructure moves to the cloud, DDoS attacks are taking new shape and call for new types of security tools Read More.

Cloud 243
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LUX: a Real-Time Predictive Analytics Solution

CTOvision

'What if you decided to take a holiday in the sun on a luxurious cruise liner only to discover that your shipmate could have Ebola? Determining who may have come in contact with the potential victim is tricky. LUX, an analytics tool, has the ability to track individuals and ships to aid in minimizing the spread of the often-fatal virus. LUX is a scalable, real-time predictive analytics solution created by ICG.

CTO 258
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Drowning in Data, Starved for Information

Eric D. Brown

'In his 1982 book Megatrends, John Naisbitt wrote “We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.” While written over 30 years ago, that line is as very true today…but I might change it a bit to match the current state of affairs. Today, we are drowning in data and starved for information. Every organization has a great deal of data and more data is being collected every day.

Data 203
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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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Crosby: Weak Commissioning Poses Risks to Reliability, Safety

Data Center Knowledge

'Data Center World: The industry isn''t serious enough about testing performance and safety of new facilities, says Compass CEO Read More.

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What A CIO Needs To Know About Throwing A Proper Retreat

The Accidental Successful CIO

'If you are going to throw a retreat, then do it well Image Credit. Every CIO is looking to solve the same puzzle: what do they have to do in order to get the most productivity out of their IT department? It turns out that sometimes the solution to this puzzle is to temporarily forget the importance of information technology and take the IT department out of the company and go on a retreat.

Education 157

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VMware Cisco EMC VCE Zen and now server storage I/O convergence

Storage IO Blog

'In case you have not heard, the joint initiative (JV) founded in the fall of 2009 between Intel VMware Cisco and EMC called VCE had a change of ownership today. For those not familiar or who need a recap, VCE was created to create converged server, storage I/O networking hardware and software solutions combing technologies from its investors resulting in solutions called vBlocks.

Vmware 84
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Telx Adds Hybrid Cloud Option to Cloud Exchange

Data Center Knowledge

'Exchange’s existing three private and public cloud providers on the platform now also offer hybrid cloud Read More.

Cloud 191
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Multi-Machine Vagrant with YAML

Scott Lowe

'In this post, I’ll describe a technique I found for simplifying the use of multi-machine Vagrantfiles by extracting configuration data into a separate YAML file. This technique is by no means something that I invented or created, so I can’t take any credit whatsoever; this is an idea I first saw here. I wanted to share it here in the hopes that it might prove useful to a larger audience.

Linux 65
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DCIM Vendor Power Assure Dissolved

Data Center Knowledge

'Forward-looking data center software startup said to have failed to raise enough cash to go on 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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The CIO’s Profession, Perception and Progression

Future of CIO

It is in the tipping point that top performing companies see IT as an asset, capital, and source of competitive advantage. Compared to other CXOs, CIO role is considerably new with less than three decades history, however, due to the changing nature of technology, omnipresence of technology and abundance of information, the IT leadership role continues to be reimagined, refined, refreshed, and reenergized, here are three Ps of CIOs: Profession, Perception, and Progression.

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IIX Buys Allegro to Automate its Global Network Peering Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'Gains network automation platform and 30-plus additional network PoPs in the UK Read More.

Network 195
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Nutanix Simplicity reaches Microsoft System Center

Nutanix

We recently wrote a set of blogs about our integration with Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V and the Microsoft ecosystem. The first post detailed our integration with Hyper-V and the strategic value of our partnership with Microsoft.

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SingleHop Launches VMware-based Virtual Private Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'SingleHop announces the launch of its new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) infrastructure service. 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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Data Integration for the Mobile Age

Data Center Knowledge

'Until recently, a single data storage location was sufficient, writes Frank Huerta of TransLattice. However, due to the distributed nature of users today and increasing data location regulations, the traditional method of storing data no longer meets business needs. Read More.

Mobile 202