Mon.Sep 15, 2014

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2014 Analyst Forum: Lessons Learned From The National Security Community

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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Lobbied by Google, Apple, Duke Pumps $500M Into Renewable Energy in N. Carolina

Data Center Knowledge

'In its largest renewables investment ever, utility commits to building three solar farms, signs five large solar power purchase agreements. Read More.

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Cloud Services Brokerage: Adding Trust and Oversight to Complex Cloud Deals

Cloud Musings

'According to the Gartner IT Glossary, "Cloud services brokerage (CSB) is an IT role and business model in which a company or other entity adds value to one or more (public or private) cloud services on behalf of one or more consumers of that service via three primary roles including aggregation, integration and customization brokerage". The value of these brokerage services are fueling a major debate in industry and this month in BriefingsDirect, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor So

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Disaster Recovery: Strong People Bring Stronger Results

Data Center Knowledge

'Seventy percent of data center outages are directly attributed to human error, writes Charles Browning of vXchnge. Focusing on the people behind the maintenance, power and communication in your data center can help lessen the risk of downtime. 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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How Do You Deal With Blind Spots?

Future of CIO

Be humble to learn; be hungry for the insight, be skillful to frame the right questions and behold to the metrics. Senior business leaders have a significant responsibility to steer their organization in the right direction, however, what’re their management blind spots result in decreasing business productivity and lowering organizational maturity and how to deal with these blind spots more effectively?

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Vantage Pitches ‘OCP-Ready’ Colocation Space

Data Center Knowledge

'Data center provider joins Facebook''s Open Compute project, hoping to convince mid-size enterprises they will benefit from OCP hardware. Read More.

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Cloud Cost Management Startup Cloudyn Raises $4M

Data Center Knowledge

'Serving predominantly AWS customers, with some Google and OpenStack cloud customers, the startup claims 400-percent annual revenue gains. Read More.

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Data Center Jobs: Data Foundry, Inc.

Data Center Knowledge

'At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from Data Foundry, Inc, which is seeking a Facilities Technician - Night Shift in Austin, Texas. Read More.

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Piston’s New TCO Calculator Shows the True Price of an OpenStack Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'In conjunction with the release of Piston OpenStack 3.5, Piston has introduced the Piston OpenStack TCO Calculator. Read More.

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Dimension Data Intros Managed Services Across Global Footprint

Data Center Knowledge

'New services a step toward previously stated goal to quadruple data center business. 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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Basho Advances NoSQL Riak Enterprise 2.0 With Search, Advanced Data Types

Data Center Knowledge

'Latest release also features security enhancements, simplified configuration management Read More.

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UPDATED: Facebook, Google and Others Partner to Make Open Source Easier

Data Center Knowledge

'Launch TODO program to address issues tech companies face when using open source Read More.