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Request Your Invite to the 20 May 2014 Andreessen Horowitz Fed Forum in DC

CTOvision

'Tim Dombrowski, partner at the highly renowned VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, has just provided us with an update on their 20 May 2014 technology and government event. Tim writes that: We have a great lineup of speakers that have recently confirmed including Marc Andreessen, General Keith Alexander, Ash Carter, Adrian Fenty, Gabe Klein, Gus Hunt, Benedict Evans, Dr.

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IBM Unveils New POWER8 Systems, Built for Big Data

Data Center Knowledge

'IBM unveiled new Power Systems servers Wednesday, leveraging POWER8 processor technology and designed for a new era of big data and open innovation Read More.

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Amazon Hopeful that Fire TV will Spread

CTOvision

'Amazon released another new service – Fire TV – to further penetrate the home entertainment market. While an Amazon Prime account already provides members access to thousands of free TV episodes and movies through a web browser, Fire TV is a small black box that allows owners to watch Amazon videos on their HDTVs. With Fire TV, Amazon presents another alternative to Internet video streaming options like Apple TV, the Roku 3, and Google’s Chromecast.

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CIOs Need To Plan For The End Of A Cloud Relationship

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Even cloud relationships have to come to an end sometime – are you ready? Image Credit. Since the cloud is a new and shiny thing in the world of IT departments, we are all excited about it because it now has a lot to do with the importance of information technology. Part of having the CIO job is spending your day thinking about how you can move more of the company’s applications into the cloud.

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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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With Strong Leasing, Interxion Expands in Amsterdam, Frankfurt

Data Center Knowledge

'Strong leasing in Europe has caused Interxion (INXN) to accelerate expansion plans in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. In support, the company has also signed a new €100 senior secured credit facility. Read More.

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Expanding the Cloud: Docker Containers in Elastic Beanstalk

All Things Distributed

'We launched Elastic Beanstalk in 2011 with support for Java web applications and Tomcat 6 in one region, and we''ve seen the service grow to 6 container types (Java/Tomcat, PHP, Ruby, Python,NET, and Node.js) supported in 8 AWS regions around the world. The Elastic Beanstalk team spends a lot of time talking to AWS Developers, and in the last few months they''ve noticed a common theme in those conversations: developers tell us they''re interested in Docker , and ask if we are thinking about mak

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SDDC is a little less than Vaporware

Virtualized Greek

'I spent the day courtesy of Gestalt IT at the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) Symposium 2014 in San Jose, CA.

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Pure Storage Adds $225 Million Financing at $3 Billion Valuation

Data Center Knowledge

'Matching its all-flash enterprise storage speed, Pure Storage company growth continues to accelerate, as the company announced a $225 million Series F funding round, bringing the company to a valuation of over $3 billion. Read More.

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What are the Goals to Choose the Right KPIs

Future of CIO

Selecting the right measure and measuring it right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture. Choosing the right KPIs is crucial. The challenge is that people have their own take on KPIs. KPIs must be aligned with the corporate goals and objectives - but should also be directly relevant to the activities that businesses are attempting to manage (process execution).

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Creating Visibility into Your Cloud and Virtualized Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'As your business and IT models evolve. learn the key considerations around visibility into a cloud and virtualized data center platform. 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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AT&T Invests $500 Million in Video Streaming Joint Venture

Data Center Knowledge

'AT&T (T) has committed more than $500 million in funding to a joint venture with media holding company The Chenin Group for over-the-top (OTT) video services. Read More.

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Dell Advances Boomi Integation Platform as a Service

Data Center Knowledge

'Dell Software announced the spring 2014 release of its Boomi AtomSphere integration platform as a service (iPaaS), featuring an adaptive approach to application integration designed to accelerate customer time to value. Read More.

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