Sat.Jun 07, 2014 - Fri.Jun 13, 2014

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White Paper: Three Big Data Blueprints

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Enterprises everywhere have been seeking improved ways to make use of their data. Federal agencies have in many ways out on finding w enterprises and their leaders have been on the cutting edge of community efforts at big data, with most all agencies either executing on a comprehensive big data strategy or empowering technologist to explore and prove out possible solutions so a strategy can be developed.

Big Data 297
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With Data Campus, the Modular Data Center Scales Out

Data Center Knowledge

'As modular data centers become more widely adopted, vendors like Cannon are expanding their offerings to support larger installations with more configuration options. Read More.

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Why CIOs Need To Get Good At Reusing Technology

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Existing Information Technology Resources Can Be Reused Image Credit. I’m sure that you know that you shouldn’t throw things that can be recycled away. Save the planet and all of that. So this brings up an interesting question: as CIO how committed to recycling technology are you when the company is preparing to start up a brand new project?

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Links for June 8 2014

Eric D. Brown

'A social media contrarian speaks out on the limited value of tweet analytics. Quote : Tools are becoming more powerful and easier to use, so we have that. Where there’s a shortage is of people who are good at analyzing the data. One of the things I’ve championed for is that the consumer insights/market research folks should play a greater role [here] because they have so much experience analyzing customer behavior already.

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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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Great Reference Graphic To Keep Your Brain Engaged On All Elements Of Big Data

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The reference below was provided by friends at Altamira. If you are an analyst, enterprise architect, CIO, CTO, CISO, CFO or even a business executive seeking insights into the nature of modern data solutions you will find the poster below to be a fantastic resource. Click to expand it to full view. Download and print and post on your wall to periodically review and to continue to ensure you are thinking of the many related elements of analytical solutions.

Big Data 296
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Intel Tackles Water Supply Problems With Big Data

Data Center Knowledge

'The company is collaborating with California universities on research projects that are looking into dramatically reducing the amount of water used for irrigation and analyzing snow-pack data to predict drought conditions. Read More.

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Five Ways to Advance your Career with Modern Data Architecture

The Investing Edge

'Guest post by Todd Christy, Slalom Consulting and member of Ascent’s Technical Advisory Board. What do flat tires and Hadoop have in common? If you’re one of the 75 million drivers covered by the largest US roadside services provider you may experience the real value of “big data” when your tow truck arrives promptly to swap your tire or fill your tank.

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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT

CTOvision

'By George Romas. We’re seeing a glimmer of the future – the Internet of Things (IoT) – where anything and everything is or contains a sensor that can communicate over the network/Internet. The underlying technology enabling IoT is Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. Your running shoe tracks your workouts, sending the data to a mobile app. Your wristband tracks your daily activities, including sleep patterns.

Internet 283
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Bringing Hyper Scale-Out to the Masses: The Power of Open Optimized Storage

Data Center Knowledge

'We’re entering an era when data enterprise storage is stealing the spotlight from the historic stars of the data center - servers and networking, writes Mario Blandini of HGST. Data has become the currency of business insight and needs to be stored and readily accessible for companies to realize.

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GovCloud Founder and Veteran's 360 Showcased in US Veteran's Magazine

Cloud Musings

'Kevin L. Jackson, CEO and Founder of GovCloud Network, LLC, was showcased in US Veteran''s Magazine for his work with Veteran''s 360 , a San Diego, California non-profit. With more than 30,000 troops return to civilian life after serving the country, Vets360 helps them through this sometimes difficult transition by providing training designed to provide skills that will ensure long-term success in the future job market.

Training 105
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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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Observations from TiECON East 2014

The Investing Edge

'I attended TiECON East 2014 last month in Cambridge, and had the opportunity to speak on the Internet of Things (IoT) panel. TiECON East bills itself as the largest startup conference on the East Coast, and this year drew a crowd of more than 500 entrepreneurs. The IoT panel was an enjoyable and informative discussion; here are a few takeaways from the panel: There is serious interest in IoT.

Internet 105
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White Paper: Automating Your Cyber Defenses Including Malware Removal

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Threat actors are increasingly automating their attacks, making defense harder and overwhelming incident response teams. Defenders have long looked to automated discovery as a means to mitigate this threat, but until recently, mass automation and response/threat removal hasn’t been a viable option. With changes in technology, enterprise cyber security professionals can now leverage automated in-line response and recovery to enhance security.

Malware 272
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GoDaddy’s IPO Filing Reveals Nine Data Centers, Sophisticated Technology Stack

Data Center Knowledge

'Open source plays big role in hosting firm’s IaaS, PaaS, analytics, database management systems. Read More.

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GovCloud Founder and Veteran's 360 Showcased in US Veteran's Magazine

Cloud Musings

'Kevin L. Jackson, CEO and Founder of GovCloud Network, LLC, was showcased in US Veteran''s Magazine for his work with Veteran''s 360 , a San Diego, California non-profit. With more than 30,000 troops return to civilian life after serving the country, Vets360 helps them through this sometimes difficult transition by providing training designed to provide skills that will ensure long-term success in the future job market.

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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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OpenStack Architecture and Design Book Sprint

Scott Lowe

'In just a few weeks, I’ll be participating in a book sprint to create a book that provides architecture and design guidance for building OpenStack-based clouds. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the idea of a book sprint, it’s been described to me like this: Take a group of people—a mix of technical experts and experienced writers—and lock them in a room.

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Register for 12 Jun 2014 Webinar: Automated Removal of Advanced Threats

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. If you are a technologist you no doubt have thoughts about security and how to improve your approach to enterprise-wide defense. Odds are you have concluded that the only way to mitigate the threat is through automation. Right? Please join us for a discussion on automated removal of cyber threats on Thursday June 12 at 11am eastern for a webinar that will provide insights on how to execute on automating for defense.

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IBM SoftLayer Offers Enterprises Private Links From Colos to Its Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'Provider installs cloud PoPs in Equinix, Telx, CoreSite, Terremark, Pacnet, Interxion and TelecityGroup data centers. Read More.

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TechTalk 44: Maybe the SDDC isn’t Vaporware

Virtualized Greek

'The past few Tech Talks have been around the infrastructure building blocks of the software defined data center (SDDC).

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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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Thinking Out Loud: Handling Career Evolution

Scott Lowe

'As IT pros at the “cutting edge” of technology and industry change, I think sometimes we forget that not everyone has the same mindset toward learning, growth, and career evolution. That’s especially true, I think, for those of us who are bloggers, because it’s our passion for the technology that not only drives us to write about it but also drives us to constantly explore new trends, new areas, and new concepts.

Vmware 67
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Improving the USMC’s Legacy Logistics System (GCSS-MC): A Business Opportunity

CTOvision

'Industries that are interested in helping SPAWAR System Center Atlantic (SSC LANT) improve a bloated old legacy system will be interested in the Global Command Support System Marine Corps (GCSS-MC). SSC LANT has been hired by Marine Corps to make this system faster. This includes modernization of GCSS-MC’s engineering, infrastructure, logistics and program management.

CTO Hire 260
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Mid-Year Cloud Jobs Update: Get Noticed, Get Your Head in the Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'As we enter the second half of 2014, people who know their way around security, application interconnectivity, mobility and high-performance computing are hot in the cloud job market. Read More.

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How to Overcome the Barrier of Effective Implementation of Innovation as a Strategy

Future of CIO

Innovation has to result in something which leads us to a better state than where we are today. Innovation strategy has to be practiced by management in true spirit. There should be encouragement and involvement by management to spread the spirit. In reality, there are many barriers to effective implementation of innovation as a strategy, what are they, and how to overcome them, though?

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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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Docker Making Its Move

Scott Lowe

'Today marked the start of Dockercon , and Docker, Inc., the commercial entity behind the incredibly popular open source Docker project, is taking this opportunity to make its move. Already the focus of quite a bit of attention (some might say a disproportionate amount of attention), Docker is making several announcements today that indicate an intent to broaden its reach: Docker (also referred to as Docker Engine) 1.0 is released today, signaling the project’s readiness to be officially u

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eBay Email Provides Explanation and Apology

CTOvision

'By Shannon Perry. In early May, eBay discovered that its network had recently been compromised, and on May 21 st a banner appeared on eBay.com acknowledging the breach and recommending that users change their passwords. Later that day, however, the banner disappeared, and throughout the week many users responded with frustration and disappointment at what many perceived to be a lack of transparency.

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Microsoft Kicks Off $350M Data Center Expansion in Virginia

Data Center Knowledge

'Expansion to support cloud services features company’s latest energy efficient design Read More.

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Amazon AWS vs VMware Hybrid Cloud?

Virtualized Greek

'Amazon AWS recently announced an integration with VMware vSphere Client. It gives administrators the ability to import VM’s straight from their vSphere library into an AWS instance.

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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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CIO Must Go Digital, Like a Pro

Future of CIO

CIOs must go digital, like a pro, to run IT as an innovation engine and software startup, to speed up and lift up IT maturity. Due to the changing nature and continuous disruption of information and technology in business nowadays, CIOs seem to be always at hot seat, the saying about the demise of the internal IT has been around for years, the fact is that because of the pervasiveness of technology within the enterprise and radical digital transformation facing in majority of organizations today

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Where to Learn Deep Learning – Courses, Tutorials, Software

CTOvision

'By Gregory Piatetsky. Editor’s note: This post by Gregory Piatetsky first appeared at KDnuggets.com. It examines one of the hottest of Machine Learning techniques, Deep Learning, and provides a list of free resources for leanring and using Deep Learning-bg. Deep Learning is a very hot area of Machine Learning Research, with many remarkable recent successes, such as 97.5% accuracy on face recognition, nearly perfect German traffic sign recognition, or even Dogs vs Cats image recognition

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Mesosphere Raises $10.5M to Commercialize Twitter ‘Fail Whale’ Killer Mesos

Data Center Knowledge

'Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz is a major endorsement of the startup that wants to enable enterprises and other resource-starved organizations run their data center infrastructure and scale applications the same way the likes of Google, Twitter and Airbnb do. Read More.

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Web-scale Wednesday: This is What IT Transformation Looks Like

Nutanix

Web-scale IT, a radically new approach to datacenter infrastructure design and management conceived by web companies and cloud providers is increasingly becoming relevant to enterprise datacenters.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.