Fri.Sep 05, 2014

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Killing Bad Data Practices - Acknowledging The Problem is Half The Battle

Social, Agile and Transformation

'I posted on LinkedIn earlier this week The Big Data Challenges All Organizations Face summing some symptoms and solutions to siloed databases and ungoverned data practices. If you work on data, manage the databases, or rely on it to make decisions then you probably understand bad data issues and can relate to some of the symptoms: Do you email spreadsheets between coworkers to edit and.

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Cologix Acquires Colo5, Gains Two Florida Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Provider accelerates expansion plans in the market, adding sizable data center footprint to recently purchased meet-me-room in major Jacksonville carrier hotel. Read More.

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Balancing security and usability

A Screw's Loose

'I spend a lot of my time talking about mobility and enablement. When I’m not doing that the talk usually turns to security. So I had to pause today when someone asked me how do you balance mobility and security. I didn’t really understand the question. Why were people worrying about balancing mobility and security? [.].

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Study: Facebook Data Center in North Carolina Has Massive Economic Impact

Data Center Knowledge

'A Facebook data center contributes millions to the local economy and creates thousands of jobs. 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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How to Overcome the Inertia in Decision Making

Future of CIO

The decision-making always contains a part of the risk. Deferring decision-making is an essential aspect of human factors. One of the most important tasks for management is to make decisions, however, across the sectors, many management teams are happy to "put off making decisions till tomorrow, that is needed today." This is nothing new; in many organizations, indecision is masked as patience.

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Friday Funny Caption Contest: Data Center Cleaning

Data Center Knowledge

'It may be September but that''s not stopping Kip and Gary from attempting to spring-clean! Let''s wash down another great week with a brand new Friday Funny. Read More.

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The Bitcoin Arms Race Shifts to the Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'The Bitcoin technology arms race is shifting from the processor to the data center, with hardware vendors like GAW Miners pointing their businesses towards the cloud. Read More.

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Foto Friday – Bison on the Tall Grass Prairie

Eric D. Brown

'I captured this Bison in the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve near Pawhuska OK. Captured with Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L handheld. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my Zenfolio portfolio (where you can buy images). If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by visiting Adorama (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.

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Emerson, Dell, HP, Intel Unveil Server Management Standard

Data Center Knowledge

'Vendors say IPMI is inadequate for modern IT systems, offer Redfish as new standard Read More.

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QTS to Get Tax Break on Former Chicago Sun-Times Plant Redevelopment

Data Center Knowledge

'QTS acquired the site on the cheap and plans to spend a ton of money on turning it into a data center. 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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Cisco and Red Hat Unveil Integrated Infrastructure Solution for OpenStack

Data Center Knowledge

'The integrated infrastructure steamlines deployment and operation of OpenStack clouds Read More.

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SecureData 365 Becomes ByteGrid’s Largest Tenant in Cleveland

Data Center Knowledge

'Provider considers Cleveland an underserved and growing market Read More.

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