CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 1, 2014
'By Shannon Perry. On August 28 th , Samsung and LG announced their latest generation of smartwatches in separate press releases. The Samsung report flaunts its Gear S, a smartwatch with a curved screen that measures a full two-inches long. Capabilities of the watch include providing notifications from social networking websites, GPS, improved S Health features, turn-by-turn directions, a touch keyboard, and 3G connectivity.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
'Data center commissioning is important to ensure a mission critical facility can support its workload as anticipated. Chris Crosby, founder and CEO of Compass Datacenters, will present on "Understanding Data Center Commissioning" at the Orlando Data Center World in October. Read More.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
'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.
Cloud Musings
SEPTEMBER 1, 2014
'In August, GovCloud Network and Tech Equity Ltd promised to deliver cloud education and training on a global basis. Today the companies are making good on that promise by announcing a Cloud Certification Best Practices Program for the European and North American markets. Building upon the Cloud Clinique database of over 7,500 cloud best practice concepts across 18 separate domains, certified cloud practitioners and trainers will now be delivering high quality cloud computing education in a affo
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CTOvision
AUGUST 30, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. The best minds in data gather at Strata + Hadoop World to learn and connect—and explore the complex issues and exciting opportunities brought to business by big data, data science, and pervasive computing. Strata + Hadoop World 2014, happening October 15-17 at the Javits Center in New York, is where data’s most influential business decision makers, strategists, architects, developers, and analysts gather to shape the future of their businesses and technologies.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
'The agency has been testing a novel cooling technology for its massive data centers, dunking servers in tanks of dielectric coolant fluid similar to mineral oil. Read More.
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Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 30, 2014
'I while back I talked to VMware’s Martin Casado about their Goldilocks Zone concept within the VMware hypervisor. The ability to implement security concepts such as micro-segmentation with your virtual infrastructure is a great example of this Goldilocks concept.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
'By Bob Gourley. Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), posted an announcement on the White House blog today naming Megan Smith as U.S. CTO (succeeding Todd Park) and Alexander Macgilliray as Deputy CTO.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014
'Apple''s iCloud service incurred a very public breach, giving cloud in general a black eye. The breach is a reminder that end users often assume cloud services are secure by default. Read More.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
'Welcome to Technology Short Take #44, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, ideas, and thoughts about various data center-related technologies. Enjoy! Networking. One of the original problems with the VXLAN IETF specification was that it (deliberately) didn’t include any control plane information; as a result, the process of mapping MAC addresses to VTEPs (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoints) wasn’t defined, and the early implementations relied on multicast to handle
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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.
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 31, 2014
'I’ve been giving containers a second thought at least from a concept perspective. One of my more faithful readers Lennie, has been pushing containers for the past year or so. I wrote about how containers will probably never catch on.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
'By Katie Kennedy. On August 27, LogRhythm hosted a panel focused on “Tapping Global Threat Intelligence to Secure Enterprise Networks” at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in Crystal City. The panel participants included Sameer Bhalotra , COO of Impermium and former Senior Director for Cybersecurity at the White House; Bob Gourley , Partner at Cognitio; Todd G.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
'DCIM systems are central to so many processes in the data center and beyond that integration is essential, writes Dhesi Ananchaperumal of CA Technologies. However, it can also be incredibly daunting. Read More.
Storage IO Blog
AUGUST 31, 2014
'Welcome to the August 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization, software defined and data infrastructure topics. This past week I along with around 22,000 others attended VMworld 2014 in San Francisco. For those of you in Europe, VMworld Barcelona is October 14-16 2014 with registration and more information found here.
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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.
Virtualized Greek
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
'VMworld 2014 was the evolutionary announcements that I expected. Three major announcements that included: Hyper-converged Alliance OpenStack Appliance Docker Partnership .
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
'By Shannon Perry. Over the Labor Day weekend, a heap of sensitive pictures of celebrities found their way onto online forums 4chan and Reddit , and the leak has since made headlines across the country. The Washington Post , The New York Times , and The Wall Street Journal have dedicated front-page links to the story, in a press wave that will contribute to the public’s increasing exposure to cybersecurity concepts and the growing importance of information security.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014
'Many new analytical uses require more powerful algorithms and computational approaches than what’s possible in Hadoop or relational databases, writes Marilyn Matz of Paradigm4. Data scientists increasingly need to leverage all of their organization’s data sources in novel ways, using tools and.
A Screw's Loose
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
'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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Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 1, 2014
When IT speaks the business language, credibility increases. Nowadays, IT has permeated into every corner of business and weave into every core capability of the business. IT is the business. If we were to extend this to "IT Business Management for the Business," it would help emphasize that IT is not a business in its own right, rather a business whose purpose is to enable the core business or drive business growth.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
'By Robert Doswell. It’s now common practice to perform a variety of banking tasks from home. Individuals also can arrange insurance with one click. Health records can be viewed securely from any device in the world with a web connection. A multitude of variations of this type of self-service continue to be introduced within organizations and efficiencies and cost savings are the most significant drivers for doing so.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
'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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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 1, 2014
The Knowledge Management culture needs to fit with the overall organizational culture. Today’s digital workforce has to learn, de-learn and re-learn all the time, as on one hand, information is only a few clicks away; on the other hand, the knowledge life cycle is significantly shortened, hence, knowledge management becomes a strategic imperative for business information management and talent management as well.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
'The list of corporations affected by data breaches in 2014 continues to lengthen. UPS announced a breach a few weeks ago; eBay announced a breach in the Spring, and we still have not heard the last of the breach that affected Target at the end of last year. Brian Krebs’s cybersecurity blog KrebsonSecurity, which broke the story of the data breach at the California Department of Motor Vehicles in March, identified Home Depot as the latest corporate victi.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
'A Facebook data center contributes millions to the local economy and creates thousands of jobs. Read More.
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Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
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.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
'By Shannon Perry. On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information see our recap here.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
'The public sector is rapidly learning that if data resides right where it’s used - in the core processing unit where the application runs - several benefits arise, writes Chris Steel of Software AG Government Solutions. Here are 10 reasons why federal agencies are embracing in-memory computing.
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