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Implementing IGMP Membership Reports

IT Toolbox

Because the standard specifies that the report for each host group should be delayed a random time, igmp_settimers calls function hgrand to compute a delay.

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Taiwanese Firms to Sell Latest NVIDIA AI Hardware to Cloud Giants

Data Center Knowledge

Chipmaker partners with top Asian design manufacturers on Volta cloud servers Read More.

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The electronic lasagna

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I am sure you have heard of the orange tabby cat (by the way, orange tabby cats are generally female, male ones are rare) called Garfield. This fat cat just loves his lasagna and let's face it. Who doesn't? There is something about those layers of alternating minced meat and pasta just dripping with melted cheese and tomato based sauce that makes your mouth drool.

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CBRE: Top European Data Center Markets Booming, Led by London

Data Center Knowledge

Leasing momentum started in record-setting 2016 continues into this year Read More.

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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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How long will your job last?

IT Toolbox

There is one thing which has been consistent with the rise of technology and that is that technology is created to make our jobs easier. Not only make things easier but also replace them. It started out simply enough. Dangerous jobs were done by technology to save human lives. Household gadgets were created to make house work easier and quicker.

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Data Nirvana – How to develop a data-driven culture

Dataconomy

As the creation and consumption of data continues to grow among businesses of all sizes, so does the challenge of analyzing and turning that data into actionable insights. According to IBM, 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years, at 2.5. The post Data Nirvana – How to develop a data-driven culture appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Meet ADP's 'business anthropologist,' putting human thought behind chatbots

ComputerWorld IT Management

Martha Bird has one of the more unusual positions in the technology space: She's a business anthropologist. Bird, who ran a family farm in New Hampshire before earning an anthropology Ph.D., has developed her craft over 15-plus years at a variety of organizations — a nonprofit, a telecommunications company and an e-commerce firm. Her niche is helping global brands optimize their systems to meet the needs of users across multiple markets.

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What do you like to do on your day off?

IT Toolbox

Here in the US, today is Memorial Day, a national holiday to recognize those American soldiers who fought and died for our country and the freedoms we enjoy. Most businesses are closed, and people have the day off. The day is about half gone, and I'm sitting at my desk blogging. Go figure! But I've been able to sleep in (which was nice!

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May 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructures Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

Over the past several months I have mentioned a new book that is due out this summer and which means its getting close to announcement time. The new book is titled Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, and Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft (CRC PRess/Taylor Francis/Auerbach) that you can learn more about here (with additional details being added soon).

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IoT, the ants of the future?

IT Toolbox

The ideal conditions for a picnic also seem to be the ideal conditions for ants to selflessly share your food with them. There doesn't seem to be a way to get away from them. Even in my sixth-floor apartment, the little buggers have the nerve to sprout wings and fly themselves in. So do a lot of other bugs and creepy crawlies.

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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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Three Aspects of IT Led Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

IT is impacting every business unit and is becoming the driver of business change and digital transformation. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing businesses, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. To stay competitive, companies must go beyond just experimenting with some digital technologies and commit to transforming themselves into a fully digital business powerhouse.

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The Cloud Architect role (ii)

IT Toolbox

In The Evolving Role of a Cloud Architect Gunnar Menzel, Vice President & Chief Architect @ Cloud Infra, Cap Gemini Global states that "a cloud architect is responsible for making sure a cloud solution is structurally sound and fit for purpose ".

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IDG Contributor Network: Self-checkout: What shoppers want to do is rarely what they end up doing

ComputerWorld IT Management

One of the first things retail executives learn is that shopper surveys are horrible indicators of what shoppers will do in stores. Asked if they would make purchases at a breached retailer, they’ll routinely say no. But quarterly earnings betray the truth that being breached has just about zero influence on revenue. ( Blame zero liability , but that’s a column for another day.

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What's Involved in Designing a Mobile App

IT Toolbox

Everybody these days has a mobile device, and a mobile app can sometimes be more of a lucrative opportunity than a website. The problem is, it isn’t always easy to know where to start with where to even begin. But don’t worry, this handy article has you covered. Know Just What You Want Your App to Do.

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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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Old is the new New

ComputerWorld IT Management

This pilot fish's team is responsible for the latest round of PC upgrades, replacing the company's oldest PCs with newer models. And, naturally, it's not going to be as simple as that. "I get a call from a manager who found out about the new PCs, and insists he needs one," says fish. "I do some research and determine that the manager's PC is faster than the ones that we're replacing.

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3 Consumer Tech Products That Are Changing the World

IT Toolbox

We are already using devices that were practically unimaginable only 15 years ago. Additionally, each of them are changing the world as we know it.

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Cybersecurity and the Manchester bombing

IT Toolbox

Governments around the world now have even more impetus to demand backdoors into encryption systems