Thu.Oct 16, 2014

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The Data Impact Awards: This is the “academy awards” of data solutions

CTOvision

'Editor’s note: Last night Cloudera held the 2014 Data Impact Awards. I was very proud to be a judge and honored to be a presenter. The most interesting part for me was reviewing the many impactful nominations, especially those that are directly tied to saving lives, curing disease, finding fraud, and helping the department of defense and the intelligence community support national security missions.

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Shutterfly Deploys 1,000 Cabinets at Switch SUPERNAP

Data Center Knowledge

'In one of the largest colocation deals ever, photo editing and sharing service Shutterfly Inc. is deploying 1,000 cabinets at the SUPERNAP data center campus in Las Vegas. Read More.

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Ebola Models: Prediction on the Spread of the Virus

CTOvision

'The second person in the U.S. infected with the Ebola virus was just announced. There is concern surrounding the spread of the virus throughout the United States. The second nurse reportedly flew to Ohio for the weekend, before returning to Texas with symptoms of the virus. The Ebola virus has not spread with as much intensity as previous viruses, such as measles and Spanish influenza.

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How Cloud has Changed Data Center Technology

Data Center Knowledge

'From networks to business continuity, the cloud has made fundamental changes to data center technology 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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"Cloud Musings" Joins Dell Content Provider Network

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings, a GovCloud Network Property, is proud and honored to announce that we will now be serving over 3 Million Dell Community online daily viewers. Our content will focus on Cloud Computing for Business and will continue to provide independent and vendor neutral information on how business, government and non-profit organizations can better leverage the global and parallel nature of cloud computing.

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Isolationism, Globalization and the Role of the Colocation Provider

Data Center Knowledge

'The World Wide Web is the ultimate in enabling a global community to exist outside of local borders, writes Kate Baker of Custodian Data Centre. Yet as this web of interconnections strengthens, the political world has struggled to keep up. Read More.

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Terascala and Dell Upgrade High Capacity Storage Solution for HPC

Data Center Knowledge

'Fast data company Terascala announced updates to the Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution (HSS) that improve storage management in technical computing environments. Read More.

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Docker on Windows – Write once run ……

Virtualized Greek

'Microsoft and Docker have announced the intention of creating a native version of Docker for Windows. With this comes the promise of the ability to write an application to an abstracted context such as a Docker container. That container can.

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Google Tells Users to Move Cloud VMs for Infrastructure Refresh

Data Center Knowledge

'New European GCE zone with ‘latest and greatest’ data center technology coming online at months end Read More.

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Graduated from Management Consulting – Now What!?

Virtualized Greek

'I’ve graduated from my job and learning experience as a management consultant at PwC, one of the world’s largest professional services firm. PwC is a wonderful organization. It is by far the best employer I’ve encountered from a cultural.

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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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Huawei and Accenture Partner to Offer Enterprise Private Cloud Solutions

Data Center Knowledge

'Huawei Technologies and Accenture are expanding a strategic alliance to offer cloud service in China and Southeast Asia. Read More.

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Three Insight of Digital Leadership Effectiveness

Future of CIO

Businesses don’t fail… leadership fails businesses. The history of human leadership is primarily command and control, in some form or another, and traces back to Neapolitan that gave us the Hierarchical Organizational structure. This worked just fine until the last few years where the nature of digitalization such as volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity has hit a critical stage.

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Dell and Cloudera Roll Out Spark-Powered In-Memory Processing Appliance for Big Data

Data Center Knowledge

'Cloudera Enterprise hardware-software bundle enables clusters scalable to 48 nodes Read More.

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Is it time for Business to take IT more Seriously

Future of CIO

Learning and understanding are the two-way streets! There are many great discussions on how IT leaders and staff shall learn more about business, educate themselves on the business of their company, and be intensely attentive to directly enhancing that business. Not just doing IT projects. IT is here because the business is here. However, everything has two sides, more often than not, technology turns to be a disruptive force in business transformation, IT project failure directly impacts busine

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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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Brocade Pitches Extension Switch as Replacement for WAN Optimization Appliances

Data Center Knowledge

'Improves replication performance with =data compression and disk and tape protocol acceleration Read More.

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Web-Scale Wish: A Non-Profit Datacenter Makeover

Nutanix

The right technology in the right hands has the power to change lives and organizations. This holiday season, Nutanix will gift web-scale converged infrastructure to a non-profit organization chosen by you, our community.

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Nutanix Intros All-Flash Storage Appliance for Web-Scale Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Previews upcoming metro-wide availability feature in next Nutanix Operating System release Read More.

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Quickly Archiving Mail with Outlook 2013 when using Outlook.com

Sean Daniel

'Third post in a series of posts on how to single-click (or swipe/tap) to Archive mail when using Outlook.com. The first covered how to swipe-tap to archive in iOS 8 , and the second covered on how to set up an Instant Action to mouse over and click to Archive a mail on the web client. This post covers the most famous email client of them all: Outlook.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Quickly Archiving Mail from the Outlook.com Web Client

Sean Daniel

'In a previous post , I talked about how to quickly archive email in Outlook.com from the iOS 8 mail client. Similar to what you do with GMail, but of course we all don’t do our mail on our phones, we use computers as well! In this post I’ll tell you how to configure an Instant Action to do the same thing. If you haven’t followed that post, then you are missing the pre-step to this one, which is to create a new folder called “Archive” (the name is key for iOS, not for the web client).

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