Wed.Jan 28, 2015

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How and Where to Find and Download R

CTOvision

'By May Gourley. This is a second in a series of posts about the program R. In my last post (see: R is a Language and Environment for Statistical Computing and Graphics ) , I explained what R was. For those who are interested in starting a project in R, the steps to download a copy of your own are quick and easy: Simply go to www.r-project.org. . To download R, click on the link labeled CRAN on the left side, under the words "Download, Packages".

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Does your Disaster Recovery Plan Include the Cloud?

Eric D. Brown

'In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster. This has generally worked well for those companies that have planned and tested their DR systems and plans appropriately. In recent years organizations have been looking for more robust solutions for disaster recovery than storing their data in separate data centers.

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Update on Invincea: Another year of breakthrough growth

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Editor''s note: I''ve previously mentioned how proud I am to be associated with Invincea as an advisor. The press release below underscores some of why I am so excited to be on their team. --bg. From: [link]. Invincea Announces Breakthrough Growth in 2014. Added 400 New Enterprise Customers to Total 1.8M Users Secured Worldwide; Secured Core IP Through Patent Awards; Leadership in Advanced Threat Protection Endpoint Security Market.

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Seven Questions to Ask Service Providers Before Signing Your Next Contract

Data Center Knowledge

'Selecting the best service provider for regularly scheduled preventative maintenance is important for the health of your data center, writes Bhavesh Patel of ASCO. Here are seven questions to ask service providers prior to signing your next contract. 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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Register Here For 20% Discount Code for San Jose Strata Hadoop World

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The Feb 17-20 Strata Hadoop World in San Jose has an incredible line up of speakers and hot topics. Attending is a great way to track the latest in the community, learn (and share) lessons learned and find the most capable technologies ready for enterprise use. If you register at this link and use the discount code CTOV you will receive a 20% discount: [link].

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IBM Confirms Departure of SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby

Data Center Knowledge

'IBM acquired SoftLayer in 2013 for $2 billion, Crosby stayed on for about 19 months after the acquisition. Read More.

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Emerson Deploys 1.1MW Modular Data Center for T-Systems

Data Center Knowledge

'Tier III certified Barcelona facility consists of 38 modules Read More.

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Why Comments Aren't Available Yet

Scott Lowe

'A number of readers have asked—via e-mail, of course, given the subject of this post—why comments aren’t available yet on the new site. I’d like to take a quick moment to explain the current situation. First and foremost, it’s not because I don’t want feedback from readers. I would love to continue to have the outstanding feedback from readers that I’ve had over the last 9 years of this site.

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Report: Bitcoin Mining Firm CoinTerra Files for Bankruptcy

Data Center Knowledge

'Court documents point to $10M to 450M owed to investors Read More.

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CIO as Chief Innovation Officer

Future of CIO

Digital CIOs have the appropriate balance of technical, business/management, creativity, domain, and interpersonal skills. Nowadays information is the lifeblood, and the emergent technology is more often the business disruptor. And due to the changing nature of information & technology, IT is always in the changing environment creating unexpected situations and requiring quick and appropriate responses based on the conditions.

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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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Newly Identified Linux Vulnerability Gives Full Access to Servers

Data Center Knowledge

'GHOST bug affects all major distributions; provides open door without credentials Read More.

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How to Improve Leadership Qualities

Future of CIO

Sum up the high quality leader - b eing great in Attitude, Aptitude and Altitude. Business and the world becomes over-complex and hyperconnected, leadership effectiveness and qualities needs to be assessed within the context of the organization, not as a stand-alone program. Day by day should be assessed via mind shift - how do they think; positive influence - how do they lead, competence - how do they cultivate capabilities, performance - how do they make continuous delivery, potential - how do

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RF Code Sells 3M RFID Tags for Data Center Management

Data Center Knowledge

'Tags help keep track of data center assets and measure environmental conditions Read More.

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5 Trends In Outsourcing That CIOs Need To Know About

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Outsourcing rules are changing and you need to be aware of these changes Image Credit: Mark Hillary. Back in the golden days of outsourcing, CIOs could just pick up the phone, get in contact with the head of their outsourcing contractor in India or China, and scale their team up or down as conditions required. However, times have changed and now that everyone is starting to understand the importance of information technology, the world of outsourcing is getting more complicated.

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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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etcd Plugin Coming to Mesosphere’s Data Center OS

Data Center Knowledge

'CoreOS announces first stable release of open source cluster management software Read More.

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Docker Reorgs Open Source Project’s Structure

Data Center Knowledge

'Hykes to share responsibilities with two others Read More.