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Manage Those Keys

CTOvision

An unavoidable fact of life is that data breaches can and will occur. The jury is still out on when and to what extent we will be able to reverse this situation. However, in the meantime, to avoid appearing on the “wall of shame” of major breaches that expose confidential information, you had better make sure that all the data you use, store and transmit, is encrypted.

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VMware and Rackspace Release OpenStack Cloud Architecture

Data Center Knowledge

This article originally appeared at The WHIR VMware and Rackspace announced a new interoperable OpenStack cloud architecture this week at VMworld 2015 to help customers spin up OpenStack clouds without the complexity, particularly those associated with hybrid or multi-cloud environments. According.

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Three-Part Vodcast for the Latest Updates and Enhancements of Version 7.1 of Bright Cluster Manager

CTOvision

In this three-part vodcast , Ian Lumb, Product Marketing Manager, discusses Version 7.1 of Bright Cluster Manager for HPC. In part one, Lumb walks the viewers through the most significant improvement in version 7.1. The new improvements add to the completeness and robustness of the product. The improvements help users deploy, use and maintain HPC clusters on the ground or in the cloud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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FireHost Rebrands to Armor, Sharpening Cybersecurity Focus

Data Center Knowledge

This article originally appeared at The WHIR FireHost has rebranded to Armor, reflecting a shifting focus to security and compliance solutions, rather than cloud hosting, according to an announcement on Monday. As part of the announcement, Armor is extending its FireHost Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

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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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Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog for the Day 1 general session at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco. For many people, VMworld started yesterday with the Welcome Receptio in the Solutions Exchange, but today marks the official kick-off to the event. I’ll have to end this liveblog shortly before the general session ends in order to make it to some customer meetings. The keynote kicks off with a short video about the VMware Cloud Academy, where both “legacy” and “cloud-native” apps can enjoy the Unified Hybrid Cloud

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Some Terminated HP Employees Offered Jobs at Ciber

Data Center Knowledge

Employees hate to hear the dreaded “restructure” word coming from a CEO because it’s almost always synonymous with layoffs. By now, those at Hewlett-Packard must really despise it. HP’s current effort to breathe life into its Enterprise Systems (ES) business has already.

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Lithium-ion Battery Prices Expected to Plunge 60 Percent by 2020

Data Center Knowledge

With Lithium-ion battery prices expected to plunge by 60 percent, small- and mid-sized data centers might be more apt to switch technologies. Read More.

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Is Culture the Pathway to the Changes

Future of CIO

The vivid metaphors for describing culture include the layers of an onion or the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg. Culture is perhaps one of the most invisible, mysterious, but critical success factors for business strategy execution. Who does create the corporate culture? Is it the top leadership team who unilaterally in a willful act establishes a particular corporate culture?

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Top 10 Data Center Stories of the Month: August 2015

Data Center Knowledge

Here are some of August's most read stories on Data Center Knowledge Read More.

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Nutanix and Citrix Workspace Cloud

Nutanix

On Aug 12th, we announced a new phase of our ongoing partnership with Citrix. The goal was to offer our joint customers better value and an enhanced experience through tight integration of Citrix’s entire product portfolio with Nutanix Acropolis.

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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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VCE Unveils Hyperconverged Rack Configured as VMware SDDC

Data Center Knowledge

VCE unveiled an implementation of the VCE VxRack System that comes preconfigured with VMware EVO SDDC software at VMworld today. Read More.

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Two Factor Failure: With complexity comes new vulnerabilities

CTOvision

One of the most significant capabilities in the enterprise defensive arsenal is multi-factor authentication. There is no such thing as a single silver bullet that will mitigate all risks, but in today's world if you do not have multi factor authentication in place you are almost negligent in your defense. Multi-factor defense helps solve many weaknesses of password authentication.

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Welcome to the Hybrid Age

Data Center Knowledge

The need to store some data on-premises and other off-premises has resulted in a natural progression into the hybrid age. Read More.

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Aligned Data Centers Applies Cloud Pricing Model to Colocation

Data Center Knowledge

Says it will charge customers only for power they use 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.