Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'eBay has debuted a new data center power design that abandons diesel generators and UPS units in favor of Bloom Energy fuel cells powered by natural gas. Executives from eBay and Bloom say the facility in South Jordan, Utah sets a radical new course for the data center industry.
The Accidental Successful CIO
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
'CIOs need to find a way to keep their balance once they become CIO Image Credit. Becoming a CIO is a difficult thing to do. It turns out that staying CIO once you reach this lofty position is also very hard to do. Recent market studies have revealed that the average length of time that a CIO holds on to his or her office is 5 years and four months!
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Eric D. Brown
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
'About a year ago, I heard the following two lines from well-respected IT professionals. The first comment: 1.) Big data is the future. And the second:: 2.) Big data is hype. These comments were uttered by people I truly respect. These two professionals have been around IT for more than 20 years each and have been involved in some very big projects.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
'Advanced Human Technologies is, among other things, a publisher. To complement our existing ventures and publications , we have been building the platform and capabilities to generate more web publications and soon, more books and reports. The general theme of our publications is the future, or in some cases what we need to do today to be successful in the future.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'Google has purchased a massive former Gatorade plant in Pryor, Oklahoma for potential use as a data center, and has also bought 240 megawatts of wind power to support its Oklahoma operations.
The Investing Edge
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
'At Ascent, we have been focused on the growth of data analytics – or as we called it back in 2008, the ”Explosion of Data” – for close to a decade. In the early days we backed companies such as ZoomInfo , Cymfony ( acq. by TNS ) and Bizo that comb the web, collecting data to build professional profiles or understand customer sentiment on products. More recently we have seen a revolution on the infrastructure side bringing new technologies and databases to market that greatly accelerate the spee
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Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
'Last week I was in Amsterdam for the International User Community Meeting of SimCorp, a leading provider of software for the investment management industry. I gave the keynote on the Future of Investment Management and ran a half-day Executive Master Class on Creating the Successful Organisation of the Future. Prior to founding Advanced Human Technologies most of my working career had been in financial markets with Merrill Lynch and capital markets with Thomson Financial, with my final role as
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'The Dalles, Oregon has become the latest member of the Billion Dollar Data Center Club. Google said today that it will spend $600 million to expand its data center campus on the banks of the Columbia River in The Dalles, bringing the giant company''s investment in the small town to $1.2 billion.
Mick's IT Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
'This is the Microsoft Project Professional template for deploying Microsoft Office 2013. It has been edited from the 2010 template to accommodate the new features of 2013. This is a general template that will most likely need to be modified for different companies. You can download the template from here.
Virtualized Greek
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
'NSX needs more than the ability to be innovative in managing networks and “just” adding value similar to how x86 virtualization has done for the server team. One of the key moments of VMworld was when the VMware COO called VMWorld the largest gathering of Network Administrators. There are more virtual ports than physical and virtualization administrators administer most of those virtual ports.
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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.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
'When I was recently visiting Switzerland to deliver a keynote on the future of work my colleague Gerd Leonhard and I recorded a series of video conversations that are featured in his Meeting of the Minds series. Following our conversations on the implications of Big Data and the future of privacy , here is our dialogue on the future of Switzerland.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
'Net Access has broken ground on a significant expansion to its New Jersey data center operations. The Parsippany II facility, which opened in 2010, will more than double its size to add space for another 1,500 cabinets of gear.
Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
Change is always there; improvement can only be there if people accept change. Change is the only constant, indeed, even change itself changes, but more than two-thirds of organizational change management effort fails, what’s the change all about, why is change so hard, is change equal to improvement? Not every change is an improvement, but every improvement is definitely a change.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
'The answer is “no” … and “yes” FirstNet is the First Responder Network Authority. FirstNet was created by Congress in February, 2012, and authorized to spend up to $7 billion to build a nationwide public safety wireless network. A Board of 15 members was appointed in August, 2012, to begin the work. In April, 2013, one board member, Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald raised concerns about lack of transparency in the work of the Board.
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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?
Nutanix
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Lovably geeky data center techs Kip and Gary, who have become familiar to Data Center Knowledge readers through our cartoon caption contests, may soon have their own book. Artist Diane Alber is turning to Kickstarter and the data center industry to make the book a realty.
Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
''Learning'' and ''Performance'' are key fundamental themes of better organizational governance. Due to the increasing velocity and variety of changes in the digital era, corporate board, as one of the most significant governance bodies, also faces the unprecedented changes, including the new perspective of boardroom composition, the priority of boardroom agenda, the stakeholder engagement, as well as the merging strategies or risks driven by the latest digital technology.
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
'An updated version of the very popular workshop I gave at OSCON last year. This presentation was given at Strangeloop 2013 as a 3 hour interactive workshop. This tutorial will introduce the features of MongoDB by building a simple location-based application using MongoDB. The tutorial will cover the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture.
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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.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
'How do IT professionals seamlessly interweave applications, services and cloud computing? This is where the power of the modern API comes in. Bill Kleyman takes a look at how APIs are impacting various aspects of the data center.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
'The data center and hosting IPOs are beginning to multiply. Next-generation infrastructure specialist IO plans an initial public offering of common stock, the company said Friday.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
'HP launches a cloud-based analytics as a service offering, NGDATA raises $3.3 million for big data expansion plans, and Gartner sizes up the big data investments and opportunities in 2013.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
'Alcatel-Lucent aids Asia America in upgrading a major submarine link, Level 3 helps connect the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Edgecast expands into London and adds new key executives.
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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.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
'Nicholas Salimbene of Iron Mountain Data Centers gives a video tour of Iron Mountain''s underground data center, which is located 220 feet underground.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
'To address rapidly growing Internet traffic in cloud, mobile, video and machine-to-machine applications Cisco (CSCO) introduced the Network Convergence System (NCS), a network fabric family designed to serve as the foundation of a massively scalable, smarter and more adaptable Internet.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
'Data center veteran Scott Noteboom recently left his post as a key player in the data center team at Apple to found LitBit, a startup that aims to transform the data center landscape of emerging markets, starting with China.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Equinix (EQIX) said today that its ALOG Data Centers unit in Brazil has opened a second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Rio de Janeiro. Equinix said the new RJ2 facility will enable it to meet strong customer demand in the fast-growing Brazilian market.
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Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
'Handling data center equipment is incredibly important to the enterprise, as proper handling will ensure that a data center is run optimally. Should anything go wrong, the potential fallout can dramatically hurt a company and put an employee’s well-being at risk, writes Jake Iskhakov of Server.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Cloud computing, big data, virtualization and IT consumerization are all finding a new place within the data center. As with anything with information technology: the bigger the service or platform, the bigger the target. Learn how to secure and protect your data center.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'Data centers hold a lot of secure information. So, it is important to know whether the facility has effective and adequate safeguards against data theft and other potential problems. This can be determined by an assessment of the data center''s physical security, writes Michelle Ziperstein of.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
'IT environments are more susceptible to threat than ever before. Any organization, large or small, can be a potential target. Learn how to minimize such outages and optimize the availability of IT services.
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