Wed.Aug 27, 2014

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The 2014 FedCyber Event will be 5 November 2014: Register now to ensure your seat

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. FedCyber is an annual cybersecurity event hosted by Matt Devost and Bob Gourley that brings together several hundred attendees to advance the dialogue on critical enterprise and federal government challenges. This event us unique in the DC ecosystem. We are focused on enabling people who make a difference in things cyber. We serve the community of practitioners who really get things done.

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The Home Data Center: Man Cave for the Internet Age

Data Center Knowledge

'In the ultimate manifestation of the "server hugger" who wants to be close to their equipment, hobbyists and IT professionals have set up data centers in their home, creating server rooms in garages, basements and home offices. Read More.

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We Love It When Mission Focused Providers Like Cloudera and Pentaho Work Together

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Cloudera and Pentaho work well together and I’ve seen that first-hand in the marketplace. One very interesting way they are working together is through a deep integration of the two capabilities in ways that can deliver fast analysis to users. Pentaho can provide analytical tools that take advantage of the holdings and power of the enterprise data hub (EDH).

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Verizon Makes $40 Million Investment In Solar Energy

Data Center Knowledge

'Verizon is adding another 10.2 megawatts of solar energy. The $40 million investment follows an earlier clean energy investment of $100 million. 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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Correlation between a Gaming Attack and Aircraft Bomb Scare

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Attacks made on Sony’s PlayStation Network coincided with a bomb scare on an American Airlines jet carrying John Smedley, the president of Sony Online Entertainment. The same Twitter account that claimed responsibility for the online attacks repeated the warning that the flight carrying John Smedley was carrying explosives. Sony’s PlayStation Network was forced offline for much of Sunday by a cyber-attack in what appears to be a campaign against several online gaming ser

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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Putting Your Plan in Place

Data Center Knowledge

'One in 3 companies have declared a disaster in the past five years, writes Ray Emirzian of docSTAR. So if you think it can’t happen to you, think again. Where would your business be without electricity? Read More.

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CIOs Need To Start To Create The New Face Of IT

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to prepare for the day that traditional IT comes to the end of the line Image Credit. The era of IT as we’ve come to know it is coming to an end. The IT department functions that have gotten us this far are now coming to an end. Keeping the company’s email systems up and running, implementing an big ERP project, and securing the corporate network from the bad guys is no longer what the company needs us to do for them.

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Weekend Earthquake A Disaster Recovery Reminder

Data Center Knowledge

'The 6.1 magnitude earthquake southwest of Napa over the weekend worst the area has seen since 1989. Read More.

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Design Thinking: A Useful Myth

Future of CIO

The design does need more recognition as thinking and problem-solving process. maybe even a strategic differentiator. Before it acquired a name, design thinking started as a rare activity that exceptional individuals did, it wasn't documented as a way of thinking, and it was completely mysterious to most others. Today, rather than being a mythological trend, the invention and popularization of the term "design thinking" reflect the emergence of an accessible thought framework, a holistic, flexib

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Intel and HyTrust Partner for Chip-to-Cloud Security for Virtualized Workloads

Data Center Knowledge

'Cloud Security Automation company HyTrust has partnered with Intel to help secure applications and data in virtualized data centers, with a new feature called HyTrust Boundary Controls. 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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The baton is passing

Nutanix

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

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CenturyLink Opens Second Toronto Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'CenturyLink continues to expand its Canadian footprint, adding a 100,000 square foot, Tier III Design and Construction Certified Toronto data center. Read More.

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Is the Commodity Data Center Around the Corner?

Data Center Knowledge

'As you incorporate more virtual and software-defined technologies, is the commodity data center suddenly around your corner? Read More.

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Data Center Jobs: ViaWest

Data Center Knowledge

'At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from ViaWest, which is seeking a Data Center Engineer in Aurora, Colorado. 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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Time Warner Suffers Widespread Outage

Data Center Knowledge

'Time Warner Cable suffered a widespread outage early Wednesday morning. Read More.

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