Wed.Sep 17, 2014

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Stand By For Reporting From the Intelligence and National Security Summit 18-19 Sep 2014 #Intelligence2014

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. For the next two days in DC over 1000 key leaders from the national security community will be converging in a dynamic examination of intelligence and national security issues at the Intelligence and National Security Summit. This event, a collaboration of the intelligence committee of AFCEA and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) is a first of its kind session that brings together over 70 national thought leaders from public, private and academic sectors to e

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DDoS Attacks: Why Hosting Providers Need to Take Action

Data Center Knowledge

'Enterprises rely on their providers to ensure availability and ultimately protection against DDoS attacks and cyber threats, writes Dave Larson of Corero Network Security. Here are three key steps providers should consider in order to protect their own infrastructure and that of their customers.

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Which Government, Non-Profit and NGO Have Big Data/CDH Lessons Learned To Share?

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. If you are in or know people in government, non-profits or NGO’s that have leveraged Hadoop in service to missions please nominate them for recognition as part of the 2014 Data Impact Awards presented by Cloudera. Here is more on this activity: The 2014 Data Impact award, presented by Cloudera, is a great way of helping the community learn best practices by highlighting mission-focused solutions.

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Exec: Resurrecting Healthcare.gov Meant Dealing With Bureaucracy, Incompetence, Politics

Data Center Knowledge

'Head of new U.S. Digital Services department (former Googler) recalls nightmare of trying to bring the site back up, calls on country''s web engineers to consider government work. 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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NOVA Labs Produces Video Describing Why The Internet Is So Insecure

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The video at this link and embedded below was produced by PBS’ NOVA. The video does a great job explaining some very complex topics in an easy to understand way. It is the kind of video that I recommend sharing broadly, especially with people who do not yet realize that there is no such thing as a 100% risk-free or secure computer.

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Amazon to Recycle Westin Data Center Heat in Seattle Offices

Data Center Knowledge

'City Council approves plans to use waste heat from Westin building data centers Read More.

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Deutsche Telekom Denies Allegations of NSA, GCHQ Breach

Data Center Knowledge

'Documents provided to German newspaper Der Spiegel by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden show that the NSA and GCHQ breached Deutsche Telekom and local telecommunications provider Netcologne. Read More.

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2014 Pentaho Excellence Award Winners Announced

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Paying close attention to awards for mission-focused big data solutions is a great way to learn what works in the real world. Reviewing award winners and nominees provides insights into challenges addressed and solutions that are very likely repeatable across sectors of the economy. One of the great award activities to track is the Pentaho Excellence Awards.

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The CIO Has To Know What Innovation Really Looks Like

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Knowing what you are looking for is the key to finding innovation Image Credit. As the person with the CIO job, you are probably under a lot of pressure to have your IT department be more innovative. CEOs everywhere are telling the press that in order for their company to be successful, innovation is going to have to happen within the company. This is all fine and good, I mean who doesn’t want to be more innovative?

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HP Builds Load Testing Service on Amazon Web Services Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'StormRunner is delivered via AWS, but HP has plans to extend it to its OpenStack-based Helion cloud service in the future. 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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Nutanix – High Availability and Data Protection

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Data Center Jobs: Amazon.com

Data Center Knowledge

'At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from Amazon.com, which is seeking an Electrical Design Engineer in Garden City, New York. Read More.

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How to Build an Organization of Future

Future of CIO

The future of organization has amazing digital traits such as adaptability, differentiated competency, innovation, customer-centricity, empathy, and participation. The future is already here, the digital is the age of customer-centricity; the age of empathy, the age of collaboration; the age of co-creating and the age of people, but either strategically or tactically, how to build such an organization of future?

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Azure Websites Now Scales Better

Data Center Knowledge

'A website can now scale beyond 10 virtual machines, expanding the range of use cases for the cloud hosting offering. 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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Equinix Launches Precision Time Stamping Service for Traders

Data Center Knowledge

'Precise time stamping is crucial to electronic trading because it determines winning or loosing a trade Read More.

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Yahoo Japan Deploys Brocade’s Ethernet Fabric to Support Hadoop Infrastructure

Data Center Knowledge

'Existing Spanning Tree Protocol-based network wasn''t cutting it for the company''s Hadoop needs Read More.

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Schneider Ships Its Most Powerful Perimeter Cooling Units Ever

Data Center Knowledge

'Latest Uniflair LE units feature underfloor fan modules, dual power supply option Read More.

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Ohio Offers Amazon $81M Data Center Tax Break

Data Center Knowledge

'As free land incentive awaits local decision, state officials extend generous offer Read More.

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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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Cisco Buys OpenStack Private Cloud Provider Metacloud

Data Center Knowledge

'Giant gains hosted and on-premise private OpenStack cloud business Read More.

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T5 Kicks Off Portland Data Center Campus Construction

Data Center Knowledge

'One of the two large buildings pre-leased to a single tenant Read More.