Mon.May 02, 2016

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Women in Cybersecurity: Reducing the Gender Gap Part III

CTOvision

Katie Kennedy. This is the third post in a three part blog post on the Women in Cybersecurity Conference that took place March 31st through April 2nd in Dallas, Texas. The first keynote for the final day of the Women in Cybersecurity conference was Shelley Westman. Westman had a long road that ultimately led her to where she is today, Vice President of Operations and Strategic Integration Initiatives at IBM Security.

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Why Google Wants to Rethink Data Center Storage

Data Center Knowledge

Taking a closer look at the fundamental redesign of storage Google is proposing, from system to the physical disk itself Read More.

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Tech News Roundup May 2

CTOvision

Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosyste. Technology Ticker. Why is the technology industry so afraid of tax? - Sydney Morning Herald. 'Sense Of Urgency' In Forming Next Government - 98FM. Tad Czyzewski Named Executive Director of The Choral Arts Society of Washington. Schumer urges federal investigation into billboard tracking - WGRZ.com.

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Top 10 Data Center Stories of the Month: April

Data Center Knowledge

Here are the most popular stories that ran on Data Center Knowledge in April 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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New standards may bring run-flat tech to hard drives in Microsoft Azure and data centers

Tech Republic Data Center

If car tires can keep going when they're damaged, then why not hard disks? Industry standards committees are working on this concept. Microsoft and others are starting to plan for its implementation.

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Virtustream Debuts Enterprise Storage Cloud at EMC World

Data Center Knowledge

Platform aimed at large enterprises and public sector organizations that need web-scale object storage and cloud storage for on-premise solutions Read More.

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Cold Storage Comes to Microsoft Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

Catching up to peers, Azure offers lower storage costs in return for lower availability Read More.

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How to share files easily and quickly with Send Anywhere

Tech Republic Cloud

There's a new way to share files, and Jack Wallen thinks it could easily become your must-have file sharing tool. Send Anywhere is simple, fast, and ready to serve.

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Michael Dell Unveils New Name for Combined Dell and EMC

Data Center Knowledge

New brand will cover all existing Dell and EMC brands Read More.

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5 major data center announcements from day one of EMC World 2016

Tech Republic Data Center

At the 2016 EMC World conference, EMC made a slew of announcements on new data center tech it was introducing. Here's a recap.

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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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Top 50 Oracle SQL Blogs for 2016

Database Star

As someone who works with and blogs about Oracle, I like to read other Oracle blogs. I also noticed it was hard to find a good list of the top Oracle SQL blogs. So, I decided to make my own list. Top Oracle SQL Blogs I had found more than 50 Oracle SQL blogs, but wanted […].

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EMCworld 2016 Getting Started on Dell EMC

Storage IO Blog

Today’s EMCworld theme is modernize the data center which means a mix of hardware, software and services announcements spanning physical, virtual, cloud among others (e.g. how do you want your servers, storage and data infrastructure wrapped). While the themes are still EMC as the Dell acquisition has yet to be completed, however there is a Dell presence, including Michael Dell here in person (more on Dell later).

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How Far Away Are We from Inventing True A.I.?

Dataconomy

The famous inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil has made some very bold predictions about the pace at which human technology is advancing toward the ultimate threshold. That threshold is known as “The Singularity.” That epithet is a metaphor borrowed from physics terminology to express the point at which information. The post How Far Away Are We from Inventing True A.I.?

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CIOs: Match security plans to your company's 'risk appetite'

ComputerWorld IT Management

This report from the CIO Executive Council (CEC), based on a webcast featuring Scott Angelo, CIO at K&L Gates, and Mike Plantinga, CIO at CIBC Mellon, explores CIO-level strategies for dealing with cybersecurity threats – before and after a data breach.

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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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Running a Balanced IT Portfolio

Future of CIO

Portfolio management is about doing right things. To reinvent IT management and maximize IT value, IT needs to become the strategic partner of the business, and it’s important to map and translate business strategy into technology projects, fundamentally every IT project should be business initiatives. Because IT is a key enabler of business capabilities underpinned by IT-glued business processes.

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Oracle pays $532 million to snatch up another cloud service provider

Computerworld Vertical IT

Hard on the heels of a similar purchase last week, Oracle has announced it will pay $532 million to buy Opower, a provider of cloud services to the utilities industry. Once a die-hard cloud holdout , Oracle has been making up for lost time by buying a foothold in specific industries through acquisitions such as this one. Last week's Textura buy gave it a leg up in engineering and construction.

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Matching the UI to the User

Sean Daniel

I recently found an article called " Why I love ugly, messy interfaces - and you probably do too " by Jonas Downey , a designer at BaseCamp. I opened this up because I vehemently disagree. All user interfaces should be as beautiful as possible. In today's age, it's unacceptable to punt those P3 "fit and finish" bugs and ship something that looks ugly.

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10 hardware breakthroughs that could revolutionize IT strategy

Tech Republic

Advances in technology are driving the need for hardware innovations--such as better VR gear, new chip architecture, and on-the-job wearables.

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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.