Mon.Aug 25, 2014

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Embrace DBaaS to Speed Up Mobile App Development

CTOvision

'By Chip Childers. As enterprises work to rapidly embrace the mobile revolution, both for their workforce and to engage more deeply with their customers, the pressure is on for IT to support the tools needed by their application developers. Mobile application developers are working with a massive variety of technologies and platforms, but one trend that stands out is the rapid adoption of NoSQL database engines and the use of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platforms and services to run them.

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Advanced Analytics for Better Business Results

Data Center Knowledge

'Many IT veterans know that predictive analytics predate Big Data by several decades, writes Dave Wagner of TeamQuest. What is evolving, however, is an understanding that the two technologies work well together. Read More.

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Cyber Response Solutions: A taxonomy of response, recovery, restoration and remediation tools

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working collaboratively across a broad range of stakeholders, released a Cybersecurity Framework in February 2014. This framework, based on the functions of Protect, Detect and Response, has been adopted as a common model for actions for highly performing cyber security operations.

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Skanska Named Contractor For Facebook Data Center Project

Data Center Knowledge

'Skanska Sweden lands a massive contracting gig for Facebook''s new data center in Sweden. Read More.

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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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Bring More Analysis to Your Data: learn key architecture lessons learned over breakfast in Tysons Corner VA

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. To register see: [link]. Cloudera Breakfast Series – Washington, D.C. Leading organizations are changing the way they think about data with an enterprise data hub and driving everyday decisions and actions, from fraud prevention to insider threat analysis to exploratory analytics, with new information and new insights. Transform your organization with an enterprise data hub and make your data a core asset in meeting your agency mission.

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VMware Adds Object Storage, Mobile Capabilities To vCloud Air

Data Center Knowledge

'VMware adds an Object Storage and mobile cloud solutions to its hybrid Infrastructure-as-a-Service vCloud Air. Read More.

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Five Ways to Optimize Your Hybrid Cloud Platform

Data Center Knowledge

'Are you expanding your cloud? How well is your hybrid cloud performing? Read More.

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VMworld 2014: Major announcements VMware gets it disruption back

Virtualized Greek

'VMware made what I felt are 3 major announcements at VMworld 2014 - EVO – Hyper-Converged It took 30 minutes for VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger to get to this announcement. He spent a lot of time prepping.

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Desalination Plant and Data Center: Not as Odd a Couple as May Seem

Data Center Knowledge

'Data center piece completes the puzzle for solving a water crisis in a California county. Read More.

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How do Businesses Perceive CIOs

Future of CIO

Competence, vision, communication, and enthusiasm for the business are superior. Contemporary CIOs wear multiple hats and play different roles in the information-abundant organizations today. So should a CIO have the ability to understand the mechanics of what they are the chief of - their information flows and processes, the knowledge representation effort, and key additions from there.

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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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DDoS Attack Takes PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network Offline

Data Center Knowledge

'The PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network are now back online after a DDoS attack over the weekend. Read More.

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Dr. Dave Warner at the 2014 Analyst Forum: Dots are Stupid

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information.

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Hosting and Cloud Conference Launches First European Event

Data Center Knowledge

'Registration now open for ResellerClub Presents HostingCon Europe. Read More.

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The Credit Card of all Credit Cards

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Is your wallet ever expanding due to the amount of credit cards you have? There is a new card that your wallet will thank you for. This new card by Coin is a credit card that houses all of your credit cards in one device. This card, that was expected to be debuted this summer, has been delayed till spring of 2015: Coin, the makers of an electronic device that stores credit and debit card info, issued an apology to customers on Saturday after mishandling the announcement of a p

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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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Dell Updates Foglight Virtualization Management Software

Data Center Knowledge

'Dell''s Foglight adds capabilities around change control and single pane of glass view into virtual infrastructure. Read More.

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SecDef Says World is Exploding All Over: Some thoughts for technologists

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. We have to assume all our readers, being the savvy connected people you are, are tracking the many concerning global events that appear to be happening with much more frequency. Humanity has a history of violence and some have postulated that what we are seeing now is just do to better coverage of events. Personally I don’t buy that.

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