Sat.Jul 12, 2014 - Fri.Jul 18, 2014

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Net Threats: Deteriorating Trust in Governments and Corporations

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. Reflecting the increasing attention paid to information security by many Americans, Pew Research recently conducted a large study, “ Net Threats ”, to identify important trends among technology experts’ opinions and predictions regarding the future of digital security. The study targeted thousands of Internet experts to measure their thoughts and concerns about the future of the Internet.

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Bitcoin Infrastructure May Grow by $600M in Second Half of 2014

Data Center Knowledge

'Bitcoin mining operations are expected to spend at least $600 million to deploy infrastructure in the second half of 2014 to process transactions using the fast-growing cryptocurrency. Read More.

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Breakthrough Innovation: From Senseless Sensors to the Internet of Things and Everything

Social, Agile and Transformation

'It''s hard to escape the media hype on the Internet of Things, the Internet of Everything, or the Industrial Internet. Whether its valuation on the size of the industry ($7.1 trillion by 2020 according to IDC), estimates on the number of sensors(50 billion by 2020 according to Cisco), or futurists predicting the disruption and opportunities coming from IoT technologies that connect the physical.

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Perhaps The IT Help Desk No Longer Needed?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Just like suspenders, the IT help desk may have gone out of fashion Image Credit. Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past two years, one of the biggest crazes to sweep through the world of IT has been the BYOD trend: “Bring Your Own Device” (to work).The thinking is that workers have been purchasing and using such sophisticated electronic devices in their personal lives and because of the importance of information technology it no longer really made sense for

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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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Net Threats: Internet Openness in Danger

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. Reflecting the increasing attention paid to information security by many Americans, Pew Research recently conducted a large study, “ Net Threats ”, to identify important trends among technology experts’ opinions and predictions regarding the future of digital security. The study targeted thousands of Internet experts to measure their thoughts and concerns about the future of the Internet.

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Report: Rackspace Leads Europe’s Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting Market

Data Center Knowledge

'Less than one week before Rackspace announced new services for managing customers’ application stacks running in its infrastructure cloud, Gartner published a report identifying the Windcrest, Texas-based company as leader in the European cloud-enabled managed hosting market. Rackspace has been.

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GovCloud Media Network Feature: Army IT Playlist

Cloud Musings

'The GovCloud Media Network features agency specific video playlist for registered members. Please enjoy this feature on the Army IT. Please visit the new GovCloud Network Media Library for more video content. For membership information please send request to info@govcloudnetwork.com. Video Platform Video Management Video Solutions Video Player ? Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.

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Analyst Forum Will Be Held 30 July in Reston VA

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. On 30 July 2014 in Reston Virginia some of the greatest minds in analytics for business outcomes and mission impact will be gathering at the Hyatt Regency Reston. This event, the Analytics 2014 Forum, is being pulled together by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation ( USGIF ) and our team at Analyst One. We are collaborating to provide a full venue of interactive sessions designed to extract and share lessons learned.

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Apple Data Center Energy Use Grows but Remains 100 Percent Renewable

Data Center Knowledge

'Fiscal 2013 was the first year the company’s data center energy consumption surpassed energy consumption of its corporate facilities Read More.

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Links for July 13 2014

Eric D. Brown

'Innovators overcome the can’ts. Quote : Merely recognizing the can’ts and addressing them in advance can help, but that’s not enough. Doubt and prior experience always creep back in, so even if you can stymie the can’ts early on, you’ll need to constantly fight the same battles throughout an innovation activity. Because while the innovation team may be on board to resist the can’ts, often others that they need data, information or assistance from haven̵

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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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Anatomy of an Exit: Reflecting on StrikeIron’s Success

The Investing Edge

'Ascent portfolio company StrikeIron was acquired by Informatica last month in what was a rewarding and positive outcome for all. Having worked closely with the company over the past seven years, I’d like to share my perspective on what the company accomplished over that period, and why it became an attractive target for acquisition. Based outside Durham, NC, StrikeIron had an early vision for how data would be shared via web services and incorporated into live web applications.

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Apple and IBM Announce Partnership

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. In a move that blurs the line between consumer gadgets and enterprise technology, Apple and IBM announced on July 15 th a partnership to transform enterprise mobility. The collaboration intends to develop new business applications that bring IBM’s big data capabilities, security services, and device management to Apple’s popular iPhones and iPads.

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CenturyLink’s Minnesota Data Center Gets Uptime Tier III Certification

Data Center Knowledge

'Designed and built by Compass, the facility is first in the state to receive Tier III certification for both design and constructed facility Read More.

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Fix for Strange Issue Booting KVM Guests

Scott Lowe

'This issue describes a fix I found for an issue I had when booting KVM guest domains on the Ubuntu/KVM hypervisors in my home lab. I’d been struggling with this issue for quite some time now, but only recently found what I believe to be the final fix for the problem. First, allow me to provide a bit of background. Some time ago—I’d say around August 2012, when I left the vSpecialist team at EMC to join an OpenStack-focused team in another part of EMC—I moved my home lab

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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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Nutanix Foundation Demo Video: From Bare-metal to Production in Minutes

Nutanix

The Nutanix Foundation is a tool that allow administrators to completely bootstrap, deploy and configure a bare-metal Nutanix cluster from start-to-end with minimal interaction in matter of minutes.

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Mellanox Technologies: Providing End-To-End InfiniBand and Ethernet Interconnect Solutions

CTOvision

'Mellanox (NASDAQ: MLNX) provides end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for datacenter environments. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase datacenter efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applicatons and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application.

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Avere Nabs $20M to Grow Hybrid Cloud Storage Solutions

Data Center Knowledge

'Led by Western Digital Capital, Series D round will help accelerate sales and marketing efforts as the company expands push into the enterprise market Read More.

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Examining the Needs of a Policy Solution

Scott Lowe

'In April of this year, we started a series of articles at Network Heresy on the topic of policy in the data center. The first of these articles, which I mentioned in this post , focused on the problem of policy in the data center. This was a great introduction to the need for policy and the challenges with the current ways of addressing policy in the data center.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Foto Friday – Nuthatch

Eric D. Brown

'Captured this Nuthatch on our deck feeder. Captured with Canon 1D Mark IV and Sigma 500 mm 4.5 DG 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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Persistent Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) is HARD because… well…. It’s HARD!!!

CTOvision

'There are some pretty discouraging reports floating around about the Army’s Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS-A). Significantly over budget and past deadline, this ISR system appears to be floundering. While all the Congressmen lash out against this waste of precious DoD funding, it’s important to think clearly about why this is so hard. It is also important to understand what is working and how the mission is being supported by this and related p.

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Pythian Buys Blackbird.io to Get a Piece of the DevOps Action

Data Center Knowledge

'Founder thinks DevOps is the biggest game changer that will challenge traditional outsourcing in a big way Read More.

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Learning NSX, Part 15: NSX Gateways, Gateway Services, and Logical Routers

Scott Lowe

'This is part 15 of my Learning NSX blog series, in which I will spend some time diving a bit deeper into some of the components involved in the logical routing process I described in part 14. Specifically, I’ll be taking a deeper look at gateway appliances, gateway services, and logical routers, and the relationships among these various components.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Net Threat: Nation-States and Security

CTOvision

'Reflecting the increasing attention paid to information security by many Americans, Pew Research recently conducted a large study, “Net Threats”, to identify important trends among technology experts’ opinions and predictions regarding the future of digital security. The study targeted thousands of Internet experts to measure their thoughts and concerns about the future of the Internet.

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Request Free Trial Access To CTOvision Pro Research Service

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. CTOvision Pro provides business and technology leaders with access to extended, actionable research and analysis. Subscribers receive: An additional newsletter with up-to-date context and analysis enabling the better application of emerging technologies to mission needs. Logins to our market research, technology assessments and special reports.

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CyberIQ: Empowering Cyber Analysts

CTOvision

'CyberIQ enhances the defense of the nation''s critical infrastructure by providing public and private sector Analysts with software and services needed for mitigation of cyber and physical threats and attacks. CyberIQ provides actionable threat intelligence, analytics, tools and services. For more on CyberIQ see: CyberIQ. We have added coverage of CyberIQ to our analytical reports.

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Data Center Expansion Brings CloudFlare Within 10 Miliseconds of 95 Percent of World’s Population

Data Center Knowledge

'CDN, web acceleration and DDoS protection firm doubles its footprint in Equinix data centers around the world Read More.

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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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The Role of Internet Exchanges in the Data Center Interconnect Market

Data Center Knowledge

'The Data Center Interconnect (DCI) market is experiencing explosive global growth, writes Eve Griliches of BTI Systems. And although often overlooked, Internet Exchanges are a major driving force. Read More.

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Microsoft and HP Launch Program to Get Customers Off Windows 2003

Data Center Knowledge

'Support for legacy server OS ends next year, and the two partners see helping customers refresh as a $10 billion opportunity Read More.

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etcd: the Not-so-Secret Sauce in Google’s Kubernetes and Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry

Data Center Knowledge

'Inspired by Google’s data center tech, CoreOS’ key-value store forms part of Google’s open source container management tool Read More.

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Condé Nast Parts With Delaware Data Center in Favor of Amazon’s Cloud (VIDEO)

Data Center Knowledge

'Decides operating own data center won''t make it agile enough for ongoing digital media expansion Read More.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.