Sat.Mar 07, 2015 - Fri.Mar 13, 2015

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Pioneering Tech Blog GigaOm Abruptly Shuts Down

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Here is more on the GigaOm Shutdown: Om Malik provided the most important insight to read on his personal blog , reporting that: Gigaom is winding down and its assets are now controlled by the company’s lenders. It is not how you want the story of a company you founded to end. Every founder starts on a path — hopeful and optimistic, full of desire to build something that helps change the world for the better, reshape an industry and hopefully become independent, both metaphorica

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How Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) Impact Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'The Data Center World Global Conference and Expo will include many topical sessions, which will cover issues and new technologies that data center managers and operators face, including how big data and the Internet of Things are impacting data centers. Read More.

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How To Write Meaningful Agile User Stories

Social, Agile and Transformation

'Many teams struggle with defining "good" Agile Stories. Newly formed agile teams sometimes struggle with the basics, "What is a story?" and can be challenged understanding the difference between a story, group of stories, epics or tasks. A mature team can easily overwhelm a Story with implementation details and acceptance criteria to the point where the value of the story to the User can get.

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A Primary Goal of an Agile Data Center – Portability

Eric D. Brown

'If you ask one hundred people (or companies) what it means to have an agile data center , you’ll most likely get a large number of diverse answers. While you’ll most likely hear different answers from different people, I think many of those answers would fall into line with what I wrote in “ The Right Services in the Right Way.” In that article, I wrote that having an agile data center means that organizations are capable of “delivering the right services at the right time in the right way to t

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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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2015 Cyberthreat Defense Report Reveals Cyberattacks Rising and Confidence Sinking

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. CyberEdge Group surveyed more than 800 security decision makers and practitioners seeking a 360 degree view of threats, defenses and planned investments. Their bottom line up front: IT security spending is increasing, but confidence is falling. Most respondents signaled they expect to be breached in the next 12 months. Before diving into the details of the results we should mention that conclusions from opinion surveys like this are always somewhat generic.

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Conducting Your “Power Due Diligence” When Acquiring Existing Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'The due diligence needed to acquire existing information technology assets involves a lot of factors, writes Mark Townsend of GE Critical Power. Data center power is part of that due diligence, and goes far beyond assessing the age of the backup generator or power protection and distribution.

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What is the Cloud…Really?

Eric D. Brown

'I read a lot of blogs and articles talking about the cloud. Many of these articles try to go really deep into the technology stack found within the cloud while others try to keep the discussions at a very high level. While reading some of these articles, I realized that there is rarely a basic question asked of readers. I never see anyone take a step back and address one of the basic questions that I always hear from many clients.

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Threema, the Seriously Secure Messaging Application: Check It Out!

CTOvision

'By May Gourley. If you’ve ever been worried that the messages you are sending your friends and co-workers via the normal texting applications were not secure enough and you felt unsafe giving out personal information, then Threema might be the application for you to use. What is Threema? Threema is a mobile messaging app that puts security first. With true end-to-end encryption, you can rest assured that only you and the intended recipient can read your messages.

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Defining the Modern Cloud Architect: a Look at Today’s Business

Data Center Knowledge

'Today, it''s important to look at one of the most critical components behind the delivery of a cloud solution: the cloud architect. Read More.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

'Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

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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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Disaster Recovery and the Agile Data Center

Eric D. Brown

'If there was one time that a data center and an IT group absolutely need to be agile, it would be the time immediately after a disaster strikes. Disaster recovery planning is a challenge for every organization. The challenge doesn’t come from understanding the ‘what’ of disaster recovery; everyone knows what should be done to appropriately protect for disasters.

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Planet OS: A platform for real-world sensor data integration

CTOvision

'By Michael Johnson. Planet OS is a platform for real-world sensor data integration for ocean, land, air and space sensors. Planet OS has developed a powerful suite specifically focused on indexing sensor and machine data that combines data mining, integration, search and discovery, and data exchange. The data types can be virtually anything from overhead imagery, to sonar data, to unattended sensors, to marine weather sensors.

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Google Cloud Becomes Attractive Option for Businesses

Data Center Knowledge

'Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the industry’s dominant cloud vendor, writes Yaniv Mor of Xplenty. But as the space matures we continue to see increased competition from major players. Read More.

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Bangladesh: A country transforms with IT

Cloud Musings

'Born out of a nine-month war of liberation in 1971, Bangladesh is a parliamentary democracy and a predominately Muslim country. After years of being a center for textile manufacturing, the country of 180 million is now on a mission to become a regional information technology powerhouse. Paralleling this focus, in February 2015 the government approved the National Information and Communication Technology policy, which seeks to establish clarity and accountability through the expansion of informa

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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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Join me at SXSW 2015

All Things Distributed

'Every year I enjoy travelling to the South-by-South-West (SXSW) festival as it is ons of the biggest event with many Amazon customers present. Thousand of AWS customers and partners will be in Austin for SXSW Interactive and given the free flowing networking it is a very important feedback opportunity for us. But also many Amazon customers will be there for the Film and the Music festival, and I always enjoy getting feedback from those Amazon consumers and producers that are attending these fes

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Living Life with your Apple Smartwatch

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Fi nally, after years of anticipation, the Apple Watch has arrived. It was revealed at today''s Apple''s event. What can it do? For one it can tell time (it does so many other things you might actually overlook that point). Since Apple''s goal with this watch is for wearers to stay connected to others and the world it has several communication capabilities built it.

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Virtualization and Security: Overcoming the Risks

Data Center Knowledge

'With any growing technology, security can be a major stumbling block to greater adoption, writes Michael Thompson of SolarWinds. And as is usually the case, the security concerns surrounding virtualization are not unfounded. Read More.

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CSCC Cloud Privacy Summit - Reston, VA March 26th

Cloud Musings

'Please join the Cloud Standards Customer Council in Reston, Virginia on Thursday, March 26th for the Cloud Privacy Summit. This all day symposium will stimulate lively, interactive discussion and deliver prescriptive guidance and recommendations. Registration is open to the public. Privacy is gaining in importance across the globe, often involving laws and regulations, relating to the acquisition, storage, and use of personally identifiable information (PII).

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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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[Video] Storage Field Day 7 Review

Virtualized Greek

'A quick 3 1/2 minute review of Storage Field Day 7 (SFD7). Being my 2nd Tech Field Day event, I’m hoping to soak as much content out as possible. You can review all of my by following my SFD7 tag.

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Special for GigaOm Research Members Only: 90 Day Free Access Trial To CTOvision Pro

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. By now you must have heard the very bad news about GigaOm and their financial troubles. We feel for the many good people working for GigaOm, many of which we had the chance to serve with over the years. We also feel for the many companies that leveraged GigaOm research to help fuel their strategic plans and operational decisions. GigaOm will be missed.

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SAP Company Fieldglass Opens Three European Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Cites data privacy concerns in Europe, chooses ServerCentral as provider in U.K., Germany, and Netherlands Read More.

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ResearchKit & Apple – What they can teach the Enterprise

A Screw's Loose

'I was probably 16 or 17 when we realized that my Grandmother had issues. She had hit another defenseless parking meter. It was just standing there minding its own business when boom, out of nowhere it was knocked down for the count. Now this was the age of the classic boats, you know, the Oldsmobile [.].

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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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Transporter – Storage Field Day 7 Preview

Virtualized Greek

'Officially my last preview before Storage Field Day 7 is Transporter. Transporter is a private cloud file sharing service. Maybe the most obvious use case for shadow IT is file sharing. Services such as Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.

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SignalFX: Monitoring platform for modern applications

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. CTOvision is initiating coverage of the startup firm SignalFX. SignalFX is a monitoring platform designed for modern enterprise applications. Their capability provides metrics, streaming analytics and analytics around interactions and services. And they do this at enterprise speed and scale. They have proven to be able to process 10s of billions of metrics daily.

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Latest Facebook Server Based on Intel’s New Xeon SoC

Data Center Knowledge

'Intel aims for growing ARM SoC server market, launches line of SoCs leveraging Xeon''s clout Read More.

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Top vblog voting V2.015 (Its IT award season, cast your votes)

Storage IO Blog

'Eric has run for several years now an annual top VMware, Virtualization, Storage and related blogs voting now taking place until March 16th 2015 (click on the image below). You will find a nice mix of new school, old school and a few current or future school theme blogs represented with some being more VMware specific. However there are also many blogs at the vpad site that have a cloud, virtual, server, storage, networking, software defined, development and other related themes.

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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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Springpath – Storage Field Day 7 Preview

Virtualized Greek

'Maybe the last vendor in our previews for Storage Field Day 7 is Springpath. Springpath is a hyper-converged (Server SAN) play that’s focused on delivering a data platform for all enterprise data. Since Spring Path was kinda enough to query.

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New White Paper, “The Public Sector Improves Security and Efficiency with Hadoop”, Available in Research Library

CTOvision

'By Charles Hall. Interested in using Hadoop in the federal space? A white paper has been added to the CTOVision Research Library which showcases several use cases for improving security and efficiency for government agencies using Hadoop. Use Cases are grouped together into two main themes: IT Efficiency and Good Government practices. IT Efficiency covers offloading ETL to free up data warehouse capacity; improving storage efficiency using Hadoop as an archive; and combining High Performance C

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How Microsoft Got Rid of the Big Data Center UPS

Data Center Knowledge

'Software and cloud giant claims big savings as result of local energy storage directly in server chassis Read More.

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Choosing CoreOS over Project Atomic

Scott Lowe

'Upon hearing the news that Red Hat had released the Atomic Host variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux , I decided that it would be a good idea for me to take a look at the CentOS flavor of the Atomic Host variant. In case you’re unfamiliar, the Atomic Host variant is the result of Project Atomic , which aimed to provide a container-optimized flavor of RHEL/CentOS/Fedora.

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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.