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Fed Tech Roundup July 24

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The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. How to apply threat intelligence feeds to remediate threats. Hortonworks Named to 2015 CRN Emerging Vendors List; Mitch Ferguson Comments. Federal Lab Explodes, Police Say Evidence Points to a Meth Lab | Mediaite - Mediaite.

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DCIM Meets ITSM to Close the Gap Between IT and Facilities

Data Center Knowledge

Convergence between the two is on the rise, some experts saying DCIM will become a subset of ITSM software category Read More.

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Business Performance Measurement: How to Take a Holistic Approach

Future of CIO

A holistic approach is based on simple principles, and align the strategic level of measure with operational level metrics. As Drucker wisely pointed out, “you can only manage what you measure.” The purpose of defining performance metrics is to monitor the business progress and performance. But there are two levels of performance measurement: at the strategic level, organizations concern about the long-term business result, business capability building, customer satisfaction and employee engagem

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Equinix Buys Land to Expand in Tight Silicon Valley Data Center Market

Data Center Knowledge

With skyrocketing real estate prices, land in the Valley is a much bigger factor for data center builds than elsewhere 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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What are your biggest Challenges with Holacracy at the Moment?

Future of CIO

One of the goals behind Holacracy is about improving employee engagement to encourage purpose discovery, autonomy, and mastery. “Holacracy is a new way of running an organization that removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across clear roles, which can then be executed autonomously.” ( www.holacracy.org ). However, organizations have been using the pyramidal organizational structure for so long (since the industrial revolution), there’s no overnight shift for either mindset

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French Surveillance Law Implicates Internet Service Providers, Web Hosts

Data Center Knowledge

Law requires ISPs to install black boxes to analyze users’ metadata, alert authorities of possible terrorist activity Read More.

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Dell Rolls Out Low-Cost Data Center SSDs

Data Center Knowledge

Mainstream Read-Intensive solid state drive solutions priced as low as $1.66 per gigabyte Read More.

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What Role Does A CIO Play When Companies Merge?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Combining two companies is a difficult task and the CIO plays a critical role Image Credit: Tony Webster. The person with CIO job faces many different challenges during their career. One of the biggest is one that is completely out of their control – when their company decides to merge with another company. When companies decide to merge, the senior management often make many promises to the press and shareholders of how much more efficient the combined companies are going to be.

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Putting Teeth in Data Center Lease Agreements

Data Center Knowledge

How to negotiate with your data center provider from a position of strength? Read More.

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Comcast Connects Businesses to Underground Data Center Storage

Data Center Knowledge

Teams up with Perpetual Storage on super-secure data storage services 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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Friday Funny: Data Center White Boarding

Data Center Knowledge

Sometimes white boarding can become a little crazy…. Read More.

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Weekly DCIM News Roundup: July 24

Data Center Knowledge

New releases out, ITSM and JIRA integrations, emerging-vendor recognition Read More.

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