Sat.Nov 01, 2014 - Fri.Nov 07, 2014

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Second Factor Authentication With Security Keys

CTOvision

'With the movement of our personal and business critical data to the ‘cloud’, and directed attacks on that data, many of us make use of stronger security through use two-factor authentication. I know everyone reading this has two-factor turned on for iCloud, Google Services, and DropBox! But using this two-factors can be a pain. Depending on which service, you use Google Authenticator, have a code sent via SMS, get a plain old phone call, the RSA key fob, or rely on email and then type your six

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Microsoft Opens Zero-Carbon Methane-Powered Data Center In Wyoming

Data Center Knowledge

'The well-known project converts waste to energy and uses fuel cells. A "cable-cutting" ceremony was held to celebrate the data center independent of the power grid. Read More.

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Agile Data Scientist, A Disciplined Hiker or Reckless Hunter?

Social, Agile and Transformation

'In my last post, I provided some guidance on why and how agile data practices can lead to better Business and IT collaboration. Agile aligns priorities, focuses multidisciplinary teams to hit goals, and enables teams to self organize and figure out individual responsibilities. As the team succeeds, management can then map our roles, responsibilities, and other governance considerations.

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3 Tips For CIOs To Become Better Negotiators

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Negotiating is how CIOs can get what they want Image Credit. It’s interesting to realize just how important the skill of negotiating is to CIOs. Sure, we all know about the importance of information technology , but when you think about it, we spend a great deal of our time negotiating no matter if it is with vendors , other departments, or even members of our IT team.

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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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Pew: Cyber Attacks Likely to Increase

CTOvision

'The blurring lines between physical and cyber systems, coverage of data monitoring from the Edward Snowden revelations, and the deluge of cyber attacks in 2014 have resulted in new levels of American interest in cybersecurity. A few examples of this attention are the speculations around the implementation of Stuxnet, the government’s creation of Cyber Command, and the media’s coverage of the many thefts of information from digital databases and the cloud.

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Fire at Bitcoin Mine Destroys Equipment

Data Center Knowledge

'A fire in a warehouse-style facility in Thailand has destroyed hundreds of bitcoin mining rigs, whose value may run into the millions of dollars, according to accounts on foreign press and social networks. Read More.

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Bipolar About Cloud?

Cloud Musings

'By Kevin L. Jackson (Thank you to my readers for correcting me on my misuse of Schizophrenia) This week Dell released its first Global Technology Adoption Index (GTAI). This survey of more than 2,000 global organizations took a close look at how organizations are truly using security, cloud, mobility and big data to drive success. While the data collected from this effort should put to rest any doubts about the value of cloud computing, it also calls into question our collective mental state.

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The Threat Brief: Providing daily context on threats to your mission

CTOvision

'The newly revised formats and enhanced reporting of our daily ThreatBrief have caused readership to take off. We really appreciate and are amazed at the response. There are threats to your business and mission needs. Tracking them can give you insights that drive your decisions. This is the operating thesis behind ThreatBrief. Our goal is to make this product your most anticipated read of the day.

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Immersion Cooling Comes to the Hosting Market

Data Center Knowledge

'Submerging servers in fluid has proven effective tool in cooling high-density server configurations. CH3 Data is making immersion cooling available to the broader hosting market. Read More.

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Mobile Connectivity and Your Business

Eric D. Brown

'I’d like you to do a little experiment with me. I’ve got a little thought experiment that I’d like to run past you. Imagine being a small business owner today. Maybe some of you are small business owners so it’ll be very easy to imagine. Now, imagine that you are looking to expand your business. You have a few employees and a great group of clients but you think there’s more opportunity for you out there in your field.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Don't Miss These Startup Activities at AWS re:Invent!

All Things Distributed

'I’m excited to be heading to Las Vegas in less than two weeks for our annual re:Invent conference. One of the highlights for me is being able to host an extensive lineup of startup-focused events which take place at re:Invent on Thursday, November 13. Here’s a quick peak at the startup experience this year: Third Annual Startup Launches. I’m excited to host this event where five AWS-powered startups will make a significant, never-before-shared launch announcement on stage.

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U.S.-Japan Rebalancing

CTOvision

'The United States and Japan just released their Interim Report on the Revision of the Guidelines for U.S. – Japan Defense Cooperation. (Available here: [link] Anyone who works U.S.-Japan interoperability issues (from policy to technology) will be interested in the language contained in the report, which is basically an action item from the last U.S. – Japan Security Consultative Committee (SCC) (aka: 2+.

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Cisco: Data Center Traffic Will Triple by 2018

Data Center Knowledge

'Cloud growth and more Internet penetration will bring 8.6 zettabytes of traffic annually by 2018, according to the latest Cloud Index. Read More.

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Technology Short Take #46

Scott Lowe

'Welcome to Technology Short Take #46. That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. As always, there is no rhyme or reason to my collection; this is just a glimpse into what I’ve seen over the past few weeks.

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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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StorageIO Out and About Update – VMworld 2014

Storage IO Blog

'Here is a quick video montage or mash-up if you prefer that Cory Peden (aka the Server and StorageIO Intern @Studentof_IT) put together using some video that recorded while at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco. In this YouTube video we take a quick tour around the expo hall to see who as well as what we run into while out and about.

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Cyber Attacks Likely to Increase (Part 2)

CTOvision

'The blurring lines between physical and cyber systems, accusations of data monitoring from Snowden revelations, and the the deluge of cyber attacks in 2014 have resulted in new levels of American interest in cybersecurity and digitalization. A few examples of this attention are the speculations around the implementation of Stuxnet, the government’s creation of Cyber Command, and the media’s coverage of the many thefts of information from the cloud and digital databases.

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The Laws of Technology: Driving Demand in the Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'Data centers have an insatiable appetite for space, power and bandwidth. But why does demand seem to grow and grow rather than level off? Bob Landstrom of Interxion answers this question using the five laws that drive demand for data center services. Read More.

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Setting up the Tools for Contributing to OpenStack Documentation

Scott Lowe

'For non-programmers, making a meaningful contribution to an open source project can be difficult; this is as true for OpenStack as for other open source projects. Documentation is a way to contribute, but in the case of OpenStack there is a non-trivial setup required in order to be able to contribute to the OpenStack documentation. In this post, I’m going to share how to set up the tools to contribute to OpenStack documentation in the hopes that it will help others get past the “bar

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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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Seagate 1200 12Gbs Enterprise SAS SSD StorgeIO lab review

Storage IO Blog

'Back to the Seagate 1200 12Gbs Enterprise SAS SSD which is covered in this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective thought leadership white paper. The focus of the white paper is to look at how the Seagate 1200 Enterprise class SSD’s and 12Gbps SAS address current and next generation tiered storage for virtual, cloud, traditional Little and Big Data infrastructure environments.

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What does it take to Succeed in UX?

Future of CIO

Learn to balance the requirements against the technical possibilities and the time and resources available. Digital is the age of customer empathy, hence, UX (User Experience) or CX (Customer Experience) is no longer the project for a specific team, but become both a strategic level topic at the round table and the tactical topic at the front desk. More specifically, what does it take to succeed in UX?

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Bitcoin Mining Data Centers Flock to Central Washington for Cheap Hydropower

Data Center Knowledge

'Region emerges as vibrant part of the global mining network as operators follow in the footsteps of the cloud industry. Read More. Bitcoin Quincy, Wash.

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FirstNet comes to the “Other” Washington

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'Washington’s Initial Consultation with FirstNet. The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) came to the “other Washington” on October 16, 2014, and officially launched the design process for FirstNet in Washington. We taught FirstNet a few lessons about the public safety needs in Washington State. And we learned a bit about how FirstNet will design a network to serve responders in Washington. “Consultation” “Consultation” has a special meaning in FirstNet

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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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Part II: Seagate 1200 12Gbs Enterprise SAS SSD StorgeIO lab review

Storage IO Blog

'The earlier proof-points focused on SSD as a target or storage device. In the following proof-points, the Seagate Enterprise 1200 SSD is used as a shared read cache (write-through). Using a write-through cache enables a given amount of SSD to give a performance benefit to other local and networked storage devices.

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The Enterprise’s Digital Fitness

Future of CIO

Enterprise digital fitness starts with the purpose, shaped by the strategy and built through practices. Digital is the age of change, there are abundance of information and emergent digital technologies such as SMAC (Social, Mobile, Business Analytics, and Cloud) around, but it doesn’t mean organizations will become a high mature digital business automatically; many organizations have got the symptom of “data obesity,” "information misleading" or “technology addiction.

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Google Brings Containers to its Cloud With Hosted Kubernetes

Data Center Knowledge

'Google made several major announcements during its Google Cloud Platform Live event, including hosted Kubernetes and a direct connection option to its cloud. Read More.

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The Perfect Partnership: A Q&A with Dell and Nutanix

Nutanix

Today at Dell World, Dell and Nutanix announced the general availability of the Dell XC Series Web-scale Converged Appliances. The new appliances are the only solution on the market that integrates a Tier 1 Dell hardware platform with the simplicity and scalability of Nutanix web-scale technology.

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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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Big Data Integration Workshop on Dec 2 in Vienna, VA

CTOvision

'This workshop is for real developers only. It will sell out soon. Please check it out now and if you need to be there register immediately. If you know someone else who should be there tell them to do the same. From: [link]. Big Data Integration Workshop. Tue, Dec 2 — English — Vienna, VA (22 spaces remaining). Big data represents a major shift in the technology landscape.

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CAPEX to OPEX, A Strategic Talk between CIO & CFO

Future of CIO

CIOs and CFOs have to work closely to keep companies competitive and modern. Digital is the age of change, technology life cycle becomes shorter every year and CAPEX doesn't allow most of IT organization to keep modern and competitive, how shall CIOs argue to CFOs to move from CAPEX to OPEX your IT budget? Start the conversation as a way of providing the CFO budgeting flexibility.

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Shippable Raises $8M to Help Enterprises Use Docker Containers

Data Center Knowledge

'Shippable believes it has found its niche in the burgeoning world of Docker containers by marrying app containerizaion with continuous delivery methodology. Read More.

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Adaptive vs. Inline/Always-on Deduplication

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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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.