Wed.Sep 10, 2014

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Apple Success Isn't About Innovation

CIO Musings

'On September 9th 2014 Apple made several major announcements in a well choreographed event in California. Consumer electronic companies all over the fruited plain were heard to say as one. Why didn''t we think of that? So, why is that? Why does Apple make such stunning products that draw us like moths to the back-porch light? There were people camping out at the Apple flagship store a week before the announcement.

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Home Depot Breach Update

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. Last week, CTOVision shared a story from KrebsonSecurity.com , reporting that Home Depot had potentially suffered a large data breach in recent months. At that time, a Home Depot representative acknowledged that the company was investigating “unusual activity” but failed to confirm that a breach had occurred. In a release dated September 8 th , The Home Depot provided an update on the breach, confirming that a breach had occurred and providing more specific information about t

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Why Your IT Fails in the Summer, Overcoming Outages

Data Center Knowledge

'Although the summer months are full of perks, high-functioning IT infrastructure isn’t always one of them, writes John Gentry of Virtual Instruments. In fact, poor performance and IT outages are most likely to occur from June to August. Read More.

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How Can CIOs Find The Data Scientists That They Need?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Where can CIOs find the data scientists that they need? Image Credit. Welcome to the era of big data. Now just exactly who is going to be working on all of that data? Now that everyone knows about the importance of information technology, it turns out that it takes a very special set of IT skills to get a large data set to tell your company the story that you want to hear.

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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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Open Compute Hardware Not Cheap Enough for Enterprises

Data Center Knowledge

'Risk-averse enterprise IT shops don’t see a compelling enough price difference to adopt OCP Read More.

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What CIOs Need To Know About Job Opportunities In The Federal Sector

The Accidental Successful CIO

'One of the responsibilities that we have as CIOs is to teach others about where they can find good jobs — jobs in IT and other fields. As kids go back to college this fall, it’s the perfect time to open their eyes to the job opportunities in the federal sector. We all know how hard it is now to find a good job after graduation, yet the federal workforce is in need of bright, young lawyers, engineers, scientists, enforcement officers, and more!

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IDF 2014 Day 2 Recap

Scott Lowe

'Following on from my IDF 2014 Day 1 recap , here’s a quick recap of day 2. Data Center Mega-Session. You can read the liveblog here if you want all the gory details. If we boil it down to the essentials, it’s actually pretty simple. First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both).

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Another QTS Exec Joins Canara

Data Center Knowledge

'CEO Tom Mertz brings fellow QTS alumnus Chris Oberkfell on board as COO of the UPS battery monitoring company. Read More.

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IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session

Scott Lowe

'This is a liveblog of the Data Center Mega-Session from day 2 of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco. Diane Bryant, SVP and GM of the Data Center Group takes the stage promptly at 9:30am to kick off the data center mega-session. Bryant starts the discussion by setting out the key drivers affecting the data center: new devices (and new volumes of devices) and new services (AWS, Netflix, Twitter, etc.).

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Amsterdam Internet Exchange Moves Into San Francisco Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'Digital Realty’s 365 Main facility to host PoP for Open-IX-compliant exchange. Read More.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap

Scott Lowe

'In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Here’s a quick recap of day 1 (I should have published this last night—sorry for not getting it out sooner). Day 1 Keynote. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. The IDF keynotes are always a bit interesting for me.

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365 Data Centers Raises $16M Series B, Closes $55M Credit Facility

Data Center Knowledge

'Plans to expand product portfolio, hints at upcoming acquisitions. Read More.

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The Rise of CIO Role

Future of CIO

As the rising leadership role, CIOs must be business strategists, change agents and champions for evolution within their organizations. Due to the changing nature of technologies, the CIO role is also continuously in hot debate, if the curse for the CIO’s demise doesn’t come true, then perhaps the opposite is the reality – Digital is the era for the rise of the CIO role.

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No “Friday Favors” for Missouri Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Governor Nixon drops ax on beefy data center tax-break bill 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.