Sat.Sep 06, 2014 - Fri.Sep 12, 2014

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5 Facts about Datacenters Every Administrator Should Know

CTOvision

'By Natalie Lehrer. Being knowledgeable about datacenter basics will help you solidify your technical career. Datacenters large and small operate on a certain set of principles that can be easily adhered to in order to make the most of your time. Any downtime is unacceptable in many business leaders’ eyes therefore building out or leasing reliable datacenter infrastructure is the key to being successful in your technical endeavors.

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Apple Success Isn't About Innovation

CIO Musings

'On September 9th 2014 Apple made several major announcements in a well choreographed event in California. Consumer electronic companies all over the fruited plain were heard to say as one. Why didn''t we think of that? So, why is that? Why does Apple make such stunning products that draw us like moths to the back-porch light? There were people camping out at the Apple flagship store a week before the announcement.

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Future Data Center Trends

Data Center Knowledge

'The data center of the future is the one you don’t own, according to Hector Diaz who will moderate a panel discussion on The Future of the Data Center at Orlando Data Center World. Read More.

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5 Agile Leadership Practices Where CIOs Can Help Data Scientists

Social, Agile and Transformation

'I''ve compiled a number of posts on data landfills and other bad data practices and have made a commitment, at least on Social, Agile, and Transformation to begin providing solutions. I''ve always felt that other disciplines would benefit from well established technology practices.

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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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Federal Cyber Security Practitioners: FedCyber is 5 Nov 2014

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. FedCyber is an annual cybersecurity event hosted by Matt Devost & Bob Gourley that brings together several hundred attendees to advance the dialogue on critical enterprise and federal government challenges. The video at this link and embedded below captures a recap of the 2013 FedCyber: This year we really want to see you there.

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How Can CIOs Find The Data Scientists That They Need?

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Where can CIOs find the data scientists that they need? Image Credit. Welcome to the era of big data. Now just exactly who is going to be working on all of that data? Now that everyone knows about the importance of information technology, it turns out that it takes a very special set of IT skills to get a large data set to tell your company the story that you want to hear.

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Interactive Analytics – A Tool for Opening Up Your Data

Eric D. Brown

'To be successful working with big data, organizations really need to get their data into the hands of the people that know the data the best. In the past, this has been rather difficult to do. Back in the ‘old’ days of business intelligence and data warehouses, many organizations were trying to get their employees as far away from the data as possible.

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CDH Users: If you have done impactful things with data please share how what and why

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The 2014 Data Impact award, presented by Cloudera, is a great way of helping the community learn best practices by highlighting mission-focused solutions. This year there is a special category for government, non-profits and NGOs. For more see the text below from the Cloudera site: [link]. 2014 Data Impact Awards. Presented by Cloudera.

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What CIOs Need To Know About Job Opportunities In The Federal Sector

The Accidental Successful CIO

'One of the responsibilities that we have as CIOs is to teach others about where they can find good jobs — jobs in IT and other fields. As kids go back to college this fall, it’s the perfect time to open their eyes to the job opportunities in the federal sector. We all know how hard it is now to find a good job after graduation, yet the federal workforce is in need of bright, young lawyers, engineers, scientists, enforcement officers, and more!

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Why Your IT Fails in the Summer, Overcoming Outages

Data Center Knowledge

'Although the summer months are full of perks, high-functioning IT infrastructure isn’t always one of them, writes John Gentry of Virtual Instruments. In fact, poor performance and IT outages are most likely to occur from June to August. Read More.

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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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IDF 2014: Bare Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization

Scott Lowe

'This is a live blog of session DATS004, titled “Bare-Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.” The speaker is Nicholas Weaver (yes, that Nick Weaver, who now works at Intel). Weaver starts his presentation by talking about “how we got here”, discussing the various technological shifts that have affected the computing landscape over the years.

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Trusted Cyber Collaboration Workshop: A gathering of the leaders in secure collaboration and cyber security 24-26 Sep in DC

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The 2014 Trusted Cyber Collaboration Workshop is being held 24-26 Sep in DC. This gathering, facilitated by the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Participation (TSCP) pulls together leaders in real secure information exchange, including information exchange across and between enterprises. More from: [link]. Join the Leaders in Secure Collaboration.

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Why HP and Cisco passed on VMware EVO

Virtualized Greek

'I’ve been accused of being a conspiracy theorist, and I’m sure this post won’t do anything to dispel that perception. I’m talking VMware’s EVO platform and the missing partnership between Cisco and HP. I’m sure that there is a reason.

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Cloud Computing: Where Expectation Should Always Match Reality

Data Center Knowledge

'Every cloud is highly tailored to fit the specific needs of its customer, writes Scott Azzolina of Connectria Hosting. For this reason, data center managers and IT experts should expect a higher level of service from hosting providers. Read More.

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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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IDF 2014 Day 2 Recap

Scott Lowe

'Following on from my IDF 2014 Day 1 recap , here’s a quick recap of day 2. Data Center Mega-Session. You can read the liveblog here if you want all the gory details. If we boil it down to the essentials, it’s actually pretty simple. First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both).

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Home Depot Breach Update

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. Last week, CTOVision shared a story from KrebsonSecurity.com , reporting that Home Depot had potentially suffered a large data breach in recent months. At that time, a Home Depot representative acknowledged that the company was investigating “unusual activity” but failed to confirm that a breach had occurred. In a release dated September 8 th , The Home Depot provided an update on the breach, confirming that a breach had occurred and providing more specific information about t

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Shiny New Toy Season

A Screw's Loose

'We’re a little more than 24 hours away from Applepalooza and the rumors have hit the fan. Shiny new toy syndrome is about to kick in at work and hundreds of devices are accidentally going to fall from pockets or into toilets etc in the next few days in hopes of getting one of these [.].

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Facebook’s Open Compute Servers Still Tough Sell for Corporate IT Shops

Data Center Knowledge

'Vendors claim enterprise interest in OCP hardware is rising, but most OCP revenue still comes from web-scale clients. Read More.

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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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IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session

Scott Lowe

'This is a liveblog of the Data Center Mega-Session from day 2 of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco. Diane Bryant, SVP and GM of the Data Center Group takes the stage promptly at 9:30am to kick off the data center mega-session. Bryant starts the discussion by setting out the key drivers affecting the data center: new devices (and new volumes of devices) and new services (AWS, Netflix, Twitter, etc.).

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Another Wave of Protest for Net Neutrality

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. Open Internet advocates have hatched another plan to engage millions of Internet users over the issue of Net Neutrality. In order to raise awareness of the debate, those passionate about the issue have already initiated Kickstarter campaigns , performed comedic routines , and have introduced open competitions to rebrand the term Net Neutrality.

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The Rise of CIO Role

Future of CIO

As the rising leadership role, CIOs must be business strategists, change agents and champions for evolution within their organizations. Due to the changing nature of technologies, the CIO role is also continuously in hot debate, if the curse for the CIO’s demise doesn’t come true, then perhaps the opposite is the reality – Digital is the era for the rise of the CIO role.

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Safely Avoid Overcooling Your Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'Keeping a data center running optimally isn''t always an easy task. Check out this eBook on how to safely avoid overcooling your data center. Read More.

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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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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap

Scott Lowe

'In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Here’s a quick recap of day 1 (I should have published this last night—sorry for not getting it out sooner). Day 1 Keynote. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. The IDF keynotes are always a bit interesting for me.

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CyberIQ Launches Cyber Threat Analytics 2.0

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Editor’s note: I am very proud to be an advisor to CyberIQ and wanted to share the press release below with you.-bg. From: [link]. CyberIQ Services, Inc., a provider of cyber threats management software and services, today announced the launch of Cyber Threat Analytics v2.0. “This release highlights CyberIQ Services commitment to helping organizations turn threat intelligence into action in order to anticipate and mitigate attacks,” said Charles Johnson, CEO of Cybe

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The Principles to Define KPIs

Future of CIO

Defining the KPIs to measuring corporate performance is both art and science. The well-defined measures and KPIs are important factors to map strategy & execution and manage performance effectively. However, s electing KPIs is the main challenge in establishing a performance management framework, what are the main principles to define KPIs? Consistency : It is vital that there is a shared consistent understanding of what is meant by the KPI; how the performance rating thresholds are assigned

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Hey, You, Get Off My Cloud!

Data Center Knowledge

'Gartner says public cloud providers have plenty of security for most workloads, writes Chris Nolan of 2nd Watch. So does your business really need more? 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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Data-at-Rest Encryption Solutions: How It Works – Nutanix

Nutanix

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

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How Much Would You Sell Your Online Browsing Habits For?

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Would you be willing to give up your online privacy for $100 a month? A company located in San Diego, Luth Research, wants to track your online habits and sell them to the highest bidder. Luth Research will not go through your private messages or your personal social networking sites, nor will it collect any data you send through a secure private network.

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Event Driven Process vs. Goal Driven Process

Future of CIO

Event-driven is from start to end and Goal driven is from end to start. Event-driven processes are processes that are defined in terms of a series of triggers, whereas goal-driven processes are defined in terms of specific milestones and outcomes (goals). It is a viewpoint that differentiates the structured business processes and ad hoc (unstructured) case management processes commonly associated with knowledge workers.

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Microsoft Buys Into US-Brazil Submarine Cable by Seaborn

Data Center Knowledge

'Becomes ‘foundational customer’ with capacity purchase on future intercontinental link 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.