Tue.Aug 12, 2014

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Big Data, Small World: Kirk Borne at TEDxGeorgeMasonU

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The video at this link and embedded below shows Kirk Borne at TEDx GeorgeMason. From the YouTube description: Dr. Kirk Borne is a Multidisciplinary Data Scientist and an Astrophysicist. He is Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science in the George Mason University School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences (SPACS).

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IBM Opens SoftLayer Data Center in Toronto, Canada

Data Center Knowledge

'First SoftLayer data center in Canada, the facility to improve service for the company''s Canadian customers as well as customers outside of the country serving the Toronto market. Read More.

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Pew Report: Robotics, A.I., and Jobs

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. Scientists, programmers, and engineers work ceaselessly to develop improvements in robotics and artificial intelligence, which constitute some of the most impressive technological feats ever accomplished. Impressive personal assistants like Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana can interpret voice commands, provide useful information, and even tell jokes, while incredible supercomputers like IBM’s Watson can make hypotheses and literally learn.

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Redefining System Architecture with Data at the Core

Data Center Knowledge

'To meet the new demands of business, IT can no longer count on the tried and true, writes Momchil Michailov of Sanbolic. What todays IT teams need is a modern system architecture that has data at its core. 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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Cloud-Hosted Cloud Management via Platform9

Scott Lowe

'A new startup emerged from stealth today, a company called Platform9. Platform9 was launched by former VMware veterans with the goal of making it easy for companies to consume their existing infrastructure in an agile, cloud-like fashion. Platform9 seeks to accomplish this by offering a cloud management platform that is itself provided as a cloud-based service—hence the name of this post, “cloud-hosted cloud management.” It’s an interesting approach, and it certainly hel

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Google and Others Building $300M Trans-Pacific Submarine Cable

Data Center Knowledge

'FASTER cable system will extend from U.S. west coast hubs to two locations in Japan. Read More.

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LiquidWeb Among Companies Affected by Major Outage Across US Network Providers

Data Center Knowledge

'Web host suffers outages caused by widespread availability issues that impacted major network providers, including Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner and Verizon. Read More.

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Cisco???s Midyear Security Report Warns of Lower-Profile Threats

Data Center Knowledge

'While celebrity-status attacks like Heartbleed make headlines, attacks exploiting things like bad code or outdated software are on the rise. Read More.

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New US Digital Services Team Brings Private Sector Expertise to Government Tech Projects

Data Center Knowledge

'New team will work with other government agencies to upgrade technology infrastructure and make government websites more user-friendly. Read More.

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CenturyLink Thinks ???Dockerized??? Multi-Container Apps Shouldn???t Be a Pain in the Rear

Data Center Knowledge

'Builds and open sources Panamax, a container management platform for mere mortals. 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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Intel???s 14 nm Broadwell Chips Will Run Two Times Cooler than Current Gen

Data Center Knowledge

'Company expects to start shipping Broadwell-based Intel Core M parts in time for holidays. Read More.

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Rackspace Builds Up DevOps Services Portfolio

Data Center Knowledge

'Adds Windows support, canned DevOps stacks, advisory services. Read More.

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