Fri.Apr 11, 2014

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Tech Titans To Visit At Geoint: Here is my take on the must-see firms on the expo floor

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. This is a follow on to our post on planning your time at the Geoint Symposium. With this post I want to make some technology recommendations that may be helpful to you as you plan out your time at the Geoint Symposium 14-17 Apr. There are so many great firms on the expo floor you cannot possibly spend time with all of them. You really need to approach the floor with a strategy.

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Datapod Deployment Delivers Density for Government Client

Data Center Knowledge

'Datapod has recently completed a modular data center deployment for an Australian Federal Government Department in Australia, where the customer required densities of 15kW to 30kW per rack. Read More.

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NGA joins GitHub, offers code to help disaster response

CTOvision

'By Michael Johnson. We read this press release with pleasure and have deep respect for the incredibly hard work required to achieve the kinds of success demonstrated here. It is not easy to get things like this done in government. From: the NGA pless release at [link]. NGA joins GitHub, offers code to help disaster response. April 11, 2014. SPRINGFIELD, Va. – The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency this week joined GitHub, a popular social network that allows programmers to collabora

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Friday Funny: “Checking It Twice” Cartoon

Data Center Knowledge

'Well, folks, it''s finally Friday. And we on the East Coast of the States are celebrating spring''s arrival. Let''s take a moment from our happy dance, and have our cartoon contest. 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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Spies Want Your Money: Look at this pinhole camera used to steal credit card numbers

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Threats to our information are not only from malware or brute force hacks or social engineering. Criminals are motivated to look for every advantage. Sometimes we read about very sophisticated attacks against hardware that require advanced engineering. But attacks don’t really have to be sophisticated to be successful. Two relatively easy to execute attacks were recently highlighted by the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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Apigee Launches Predictive Big Data Analytics Platform

Data Center Knowledge

'Enabling enterprises to apply sophisticated analytics on fine-grained data and then proactively act on those insights, Apigee launched a major new version of its Insights big data analytics platform Read More.

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The Opportunities and Challenges of Long-term Data and Large-Scale Analytics

Data Center Knowledge

'The secret to realizing the opportunities of petabyte-scale storage, and to overcoming its challenges, is to evolve from storing all data in the same way to storing different kinds of data in different ways, writes Jeff Flowers of SageCloud. Read More.

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SDN will lead the way for Network as a Service (NaaS)

Virtualized Greek

'There are plenty of service providers out that will provide VPN based network as a service. But, as I’ve stated on this blog in the past, it’s just a stop gap for end to end network as a server. As strategies such as network overlays, as pursued by VMware mature and are accepted, the industry […].

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AppDirect Raises $35 Million, IBM Acquires Silverpop

Data Center Knowledge

'Cloud services brokerage company AppDirect raises $35 million to continue its rapid growth in the market, IBM adds to its enterprise marketing portfolio by acquiring Silverpop, and Amazon Web Services launches the next generation of EC2 Memory-optimized instances. Read More.

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Now That You Are Headed To Geoint, What Should You Do There?

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Are you the kind of person that thinks long range planning means anything that is more than 24 hours out? If so, don’t feel lonely! Especially when it comes to events like the Geoint Symposium 14-17 Apr. You know it is going to be a great event and you don’t need to put too much effort into it to get great value from attending, so odds are you have not fully planned things out yet.

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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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ViaWest Opens Doors at Minnesota Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'Colocation and managed services provider ViaWest broke out the giant scissors this week as it opened the doors on its newest data center in the Minneapolis market in Chaska, Minnesota. Read More.

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Foto Friday – Red-Headed House Finch

Eric D. Brown

'Captured this red-headed house finch in our backyard last week. Captured through a glass door with a Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my Zenfolio portfolio (where you can buy images). If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by visiting Adorama (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.

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