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Four Ways Big Data is Impacting E-Commerce

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From assessing the effectiveness of your current operation and efforts to ensuring that your business has a more complete understanding of the needs of its customers or clients, data aggregation and analysis services have the potential to change the way that merchants and retailers operate in today's increasingly digital marketplace. The greater insight and understanding that may be obtained by collating and analyzing large blocks of data has the potential to be a real game changer, one that can

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The Modern Data Center: Challenges and Innovations

Data Center Knowledge

Now that virtualization and hyperscale innovations are displacing traditional enterprise systems, companies now have to chart strategies for cloud computing, including public, private or hybrid cloud. Read More.

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CIOs Need To Know How To Deal With IP Issues

The Accidental Successful CIO

It’s not always clear when there is an IP issue at stake Image Credit: E Theriot. As CIOs we tend to focus on the immediate problems that are in front of us. These include such things as growing the number of servers that the company is using, picking the right data center, and implementing yet another company wide application. However, it turns out that there is an issue that may be lurking in the background that we really should be spending some time on: IP issues.

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Cloud computing: A data-centric business model

Cloud Musings

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology : “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management.” While this definition is broadly accepted and has, in fact, been my adopted standard for years, it only describes technical aspects of cloud computing.

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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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Does Next-Generation Anti-Virus Solve the Fatal Flaws of Anti-Virus?

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The chorus of voices declaring the end of anti-virus has reached a deafening pitch. Many of us in the community, myself included, have long said that anti-virus is dead and even a senior VP at Symantec has now admitted such. When the biggest anti-virus vendors, folks who want to perpetuate anti-virus myths for financial reasons, admit anti-virus is dead, it is time to realize anti-virus is a failed approach.

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Evolving to Next-Gen Data Center: Cloud, Storage, Virtualization, Security

Data Center Knowledge

How are data center managers adjusting to cloud and the explosion of data? AFCOM survey sheds light on the impact of current trends on the data center. Read More.

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Cybersecurity through enterprise risk management

Cloud Musings

Cybersecurity is top of mind for corporations around the world. The quantity of recent data breaches and the dollar loss associated with some of them indicates either an underinvestment in cybersecurity or a failure to properly invest in people, security training or technology. While breaches are very costly to the companies concerned, they also represent major consequences for individual privacy and a business’s short-term and long-term viability.

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SINET Announces 2015 Top 16 Emerging Cybersecurity Companies

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Winners to Introduce Innovative Technologies at SINET Showcase in Washington, DC, November 3 & 4, 2015. SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--SINET, an organization focused on advancing Cybersecurity innovation through public-private collaboration, announced today the winners of its annual SINET 16 Innovator competition. The companies, which were selected from a pool of 122 applicants from around the world, represent a range of Cybersecurity solution providers who are identifying cutting-edge te

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HPC Virtualization Use Cases and Best Practices

Data Center Knowledge

The power of virtualization has now expanded into the HPC world. Find out how new virtual systems can impact your HPC environment and your business! Read More.

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Three “I”s in Digital IT

Future of CIO

Digital IT needs to focus on three “I”s Innovation, Insight, and Integration to improve agility and maturity of an organization as a whole. Nowadays, information is the lifeblood of organizations, and technology is often the innovation disruptor. Information technology should be seen by any business as a “digital transformer” and strategy enabler. It is a significant part of the business strategy, and not simply as a tool or mechanism to support business goals.

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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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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

We live in a world where massive volumes of data are generated from websites, connected devices and mobile apps. In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data. However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., Amazon Redshift, DynamoDB, Amazon EMR) whereas insights need to be deri

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iDefense IntelGraph: A next-generation threat intelligence platform to provide context around threats

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Verisign’s iDefense Security Intelligence Services is widely known in the enterprise technology community for providing actionable intelligence on cyber threats. By actionable we mean information that can be acted on either by security and IT teams or in automated ways, but actionable is the key word here. iDefense provides information that is used to prioritize actions and stop adversaries from accomplishing their objectives.

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Open Source Needs Enterprise Developers

Data Center Knowledge

With open source, managing change can be a challenge and the community often has differing opinions, but the greater the diversity and the more developers, the more likely a project will be successful. Read More.

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How Deep is Systems Thinking

Future of CIO

Systems thinking is a way of understanding complexity. Systems Thinking is the ability to navigate levels of abstraction or logic as an essential thinking skill for STers. Systemizing is the drive to analyze and explore a system, to extract underlying rules that govern the behavior of a system; and the drive to construct systems. There are two different "Systems Thinking" issues that are endlessly debated - "where do you draw the boundary" and "how do you partition the whole"?

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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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Hortonworks’ Big Data Scorecard

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Often times, the journey to data driven business transformation can not only be challenging, but also confusing. The first step towards overcoming this challenge is mapping out the journey to fully utilize the value of your company's Big Data. This begins with understanding how the maturity of your organization enables or inhibits your ability to strategically pursue Big Data programs.

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The 10 Nov 2015 FedCyber Summit and Threat Expo: Agenda Update

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The 5th Annual FedCyber Summit and Threat Expo will be held 10 Nov 2015 in Tysons Corner VA. With this post we provide a quick update on how the event is looking this year. We conclude with encouragement for you to sign up right away, we are 30 days away from the event and seats will go fast. More on the event: Every year this summit brings together thought leaders who know the cyber mission in a venue designed to enhance our collective understanding of the threat, build on existing strategies t

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Please Help Us Find And Highlight The Greatest Tech Events

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We maintain our reference to technology events as a service to the enterprise technology community. This hand-curated list contains events we believe to be of high interest to our readers (many are events we will be at ourselves). With this post I would like to ask your assistance in pointing us to events of interest. If you know of gatherings that can help technologists accomplish their jobs better please let us know and we will help spread the word.

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eSentire Appoints Bob Gourley To Advisory Board

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Editor's note: I am very proud to be associated with eSentire in this way. They are a tremendous firm providing businesses with cybersecurity capabilities they would not otherwise have, including an ability to tap into an always on team of experts. -bg. The following is from the press release at eSentire. eSentire Appoints Cybersecurity Veteran Bob Gourley to its Advisory Board.

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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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Why the U.S. National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) Matters

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The post below, by Kristin Hansen with Bright Computing, highlights IDC HPC User Forum's panel discussions on the U.S. National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). The NSCI was created by an executive order on July 29th. NSCI defines a military agency framework for furthering U.S. "economic competitiveness and scientific discovery" through orchestrated advances in high performance computing (HPC).

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Fed Tech Roundup October 8

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The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Mike Olson Strata + Hadoop World 2015 Opening Keynote. Federal officials say MOX project no longer affordable - Greenville News. Can feds share America's 'invisible infrastructure'? - FCW.com. Congress vets DHS cyber reorg plans - FCW.com.

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Fed Tech Roundup October 5

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The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Good Governance Key to Good FITARA Implementation - Nextgov. Northrop Grumman Completes Center Fuselage for First F-35 Aircraft to Be Assembled in Japan. Please Help Us Find And Highlight The Greatest Tech Events.

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SAP NS2 Solutions Summit

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Upcoming event SAP's NS2 Solutions Summit on October 29th. This 4th annual summit is focused on Human Critical: Empowering People to Drive U.S. National Security. . When : Thursday, October 29th from 8AM to 1PM. Where : Fairview Park Marriott, Falls Church, VA . The featured key note speakers include: Former President George W. Bush.

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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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Fed Tech Roundup October 7

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The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. DARPA Working on Tech That Could Help Bodies Heal Themselves - Nextgov. SAP NS2 Solutions Summit. OPM survey: Federal IT employees pessimistic - FedScoop. Congressman: OPM Hack Data Being Used to Attempt Identity Theft - Nextgov.

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Fed Tech Roundup October 9

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The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Northrop Grumman Appoints Dan Cloyd Corporate Director for Naval Aviation and ISR Programs. The FAA is testing new technology to find dangerous drone operators - The Verge. Cloud.gov goes live. The 10 Nov 2015 FedCyber Summit and Threat Expo: Agenda Update.

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Using Service Providers’ Native Cloud Management Tools

Data Center Knowledge

Here's what to look for and what to watch out for with cloud management tools offered by cloud providers themselves Read More.

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The Paradox of Network Blind Spots

Data Center Knowledge

What appears to be inexplicable complacency about unknown endpoints is more likely to be grim awareness that failure to see every port in real-time puts a greater burden on other security measures. Read More.

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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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Facebook to Build Third $200M North Carolina Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

Social network giant continues expanding capacity with new East Coast facility Read More.

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AWS Finds Way to Move a Lot of Data to Cloud Faster – by Putting it on a Shipping Truck

Data Center Knowledge

Snowball appliance and shipping service dramatically reduces large-scale data transfer speed over long distances Read More.

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Rackspace Brings Signature Fanatical Support to AWS

Data Center Knowledge

Seeing slow growth in its Infrastructure-as-a-Service business, company doubles down on what it's best known for: managed services Read More.

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What Thailand Floods Taught AWS Hardware Team about Supply Chain Management

Data Center Knowledge

Infrastructure team combines supply-chain insight with Fulfillment Center wisdom to turn supply chain management into strategic advantage 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.