Tue.May 19, 2015

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Lessons from the Synergy Forum: Cybersecurity through Information Sharing

CTOvision

On 30 April 2015 industry leaders and government practitioners gathered in Tysons Corner to discuss technology trends, innovation, and ways to enhance enterprise and mission outcomes. Technology and Emerging Concepts for Enhanced Cybersecurity , the forum’s first panel discussion, consisted of Bob Gourley, David Bray, Brian Carrier, Peter Fonash, and Dean Hall, who collectively identified many of the growing opportunities and challenges in the cyber arena.

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How DDoS has evolved into new threats against a data center

Data Center Knowledge

The largest reported attack in 2014 was 400Gbps. With more focus on the data center, the kinds of threat vectors are evolving as well. Find out what you can do to better secure your environment. Read More.

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Army Intelligence Industry Day 29 July 2015

CTOvision

On July 29, 2015, AFCEA Intelligence and the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, U.S. Army, will co-sponsor a special, one day classified event tailored for members of industry focused on U.S. Army Intelligence. The event will be held at Engility Heritage Conference Center, Chantilly, VA. The agenda will explore science and technology priorities for Army Intelligence that come at a time of transition as the Army faces diverse, emerging challenges.

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The Evolution of the Data Center: Shifting from the “Model T”

Data Center Knowledge

Sureel Choksi is President and Chief Executive Officer at Vantage Data Centers. Follow Sureel on Twitter: @sureelc. The evolution of the data center is under acceleration. The standard builds and designs of ten, fifteen years ago are rapidly giving way to more flexible models that can match an.

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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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Transforming Technology Organizations By Investing in Culture and Practices

Social, Agile and Transformation

Should IT only be a services organization to the Business? Should it only provide a services catalog around incidents and requests and a PMO to oversee projects when required? Will perfecting service levels and project execution be good enough for the Business to compete when innovation and data driven practices are so critical for competitiveness? Will IT be able to consider optimal solutions.

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Report: Amazon’s Massive $1.1bn Ohio Data Center Project Swaps Townships

Data Center Knowledge

Several townships in Ohio have been vying for a $1.1bn Amazon data center project. Reported to be split across three townships, Orange Township has been notified that Amazon's application has been formally withdrawn Read More.

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KEMP Unveils Faster Application Delivery Controller

Data Center Knowledge

KEMP Technologies launched an application delivery controller that can provide up to 30Gbps of application throughput and 30,000 SSL transactions per second, meant for larger data center environments Read More.

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How to Improve the Success Rate of Strategy Execution

Future of CIO

The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the ''timely execution.'' If strategy making is more important, perhaps strategy execution is more difficult. If the strategy is deciding what to do, then execution is all about making it happen via engaged, competent and committed managers and employees. A recent executive survey indicated that execution excellence was the number one challenge facing corporate leaders globally, but more than two third of organizations struggle to implement

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Two Big Steps Towards OpenStack Interoperability

Data Center Knowledge

Identity Federation provides an authentication system while DefCore is defining what it means to be an OpenStack cloud. Combined, they will federate OpenStack clouds worldwide. Read More.

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How to Improve UX Maturity

Future of CIO

UX strategy is about "the big picture. Being customer-centric is the strategic goal for many forward-looking organizations, UX/CX (User/Customer Experience) plays more significant role today. However, many of business leaders still do not understand the strategic impact and brand effect it can bring to the organization’s long term success. Hence, UX professionals (strategist, designers, architect, etc) have had to take the time to explain and demonstrate the value that UX can bring, and the true

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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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MapR Hadoop Distribution Now Shipping With Apache Drill

Data Center Knowledge

Apache Drill allows self-service SQL analytics without requiring pre-defined schema definitions, meaning better real time insights without having to prepare the data Read More.

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What’s your Perception about Quality Education

Future of CIO

If life is like a journey, then education is just like the transportation tools; it's the means to end, not the end itself. Like many other important things, people have mixed or even “extreme thinking” about education. In some conservative or primitive cultures, children couldn’t get the opportunity to receive the elementary education; in other “ivory-tower ”driven culture, though, it seems having the formal advanced education or pursuing elite education becomes the very destination of life… So

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Maxta Updates Hyper-Converged Platform

Data Center Knowledge

Looking to make it simpler to manage hyper-converged, Maxta introduced a set of management tools as well as support for OpenStack Kilo. Read More.

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GE Launches Digital Wind Farm with Cloud Infrastructure to Boost Production by 20 Percent

Data Center Knowledge

The GE Digital Wind Farm uses cloud technology to boost energy production by up to 20 percent. 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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IBM Extends OpenStack Reach

Data Center Knowledge

IBM OpenStack support now includes an implementation running in beta on the IBM SoftLayer cloud as a service Read More.

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