Sat.Nov 21, 2015 - Fri.Nov 27, 2015

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Another First In Human History: World’s First Fully Reusable Rocket Goes Into Space And Returns In Usable Way

CTOvision

The video at this link and embedded below captures a first in human history, the first reusable space launch vehicle launching into space and returning in reusable form via a soft landing. This is important for many reasons. The economics of it is a key driver. Up to 90% of the cost of launch is in the rockets that till this point have always been destroyed by re-entry.

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How Innovative Data Center Design Raises the Bar of Industry Standards

Data Center Knowledge

The key to success of prominent facilities, such as Facebook's, is that, by challenging the status quo, they actually surpass industry standards around design and build, energy efficiency, information security, and more. Read More.

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The future of data security: An interview with Dell Fellow Tim Brown

Cloud Musings

The Dell Fellows program recognizes engineers for their outstanding and sustained technical achievements, engineering contributions and advancement of the industry. They are also seen as top innovators that have distinguished themselves through ingenuity, intellectual curiosity and inventiveness in the delivery of technology solutions. For these reasons and more, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to speak with Timothy G.

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Transforming E-commerce Marketing with Sidecar

The Investing Edge

I’m excited to announce Ascent’s newest portfolio company, Sidecar , the leader in programmatic, product-level advertising. We at Ascent have been active investors in the ad tech space with companies like Bizo ( acquired by LinkedIn for $175M ) and StartApp ( Deloitte’s #1 fastest growing tech company in the US ). We’ve seen the power of advanced analytics delivering superior results, especially through programmatic approaches to targeting ad spend.

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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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The Megatrend of Mobility: An update for technology decision-makers

CTOvision

There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the trend of Mobility. This is the greatest leap in humanity's ability to stay connected since the advent of spoken word.

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2016: The Year of The Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

John M. Hawkins is VP of Marketing and Communications at vXchnge. With 2016 quickly approaching, executives are starting to hash out their plans and budgets for the coming year. While all aspects of a business are important, no other division is more critical to supporting business growth than the.

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A Cohesive Culture

Future of CIO

A cohesive culture becomes the way we discover ourselves, do business to delight customers. It is our brand promise. Culture is the collective mindset, attitude, and behavior. Culture is part passion, part commitment, and part faith. It's the passion and excitement about what we're doing and how we're doing it. It's the synergy of the team, the managers and business leaders.

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Bright Computing at SC15

CTOvision

At the 2015 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC15), in Austin, Texas, Bright Computing was recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. Bright Computing’s Cluster Manager for HPC was named the Editors’ Choice for Best HPC Cluster Solution or Technology. The annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors Choice Awards are determined through a nomination and voting process with the global HPCwire community, as well as selectio

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DigitalOcean: From Two Data Centers to 11 in Three Years

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud service provider expands quickly in market increasingly squeezed by few big players Read More.

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Water, Data and Storage Analogy

Storage IO Blog

Besides being taken for granted and all of us being dependent on them, several other similarities exist between water, data, and storage. In addition to being a link that piece, this is a companion with some different images to help show the similarities between water, data and storage if for no other reason to have a few moments of fun.

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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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CIO’s Digital Agenda IV: Managing Change Life Cycle Effectively

Future of CIO

Change is not for its own sake, but for improvement and innovation. The “Future of CIO” blog has reached about 1.2 million page views with 2350+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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Strata + Hadoop World San Jose 28-31 March 2016

CTOvision

Strata + Hadoop World is the leading event on how big data and ubiquitous, real-time computing is shaping the course of business and society. It brings together the world’s best data scientists and business leaders to share hard-won knowledge and innovations in technology and strategy. Check out the impressive program and make plans to join Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose March 28-31, 2016.

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With its 100-Gig Switch, Facebook Sees Disaggregation in Action

Data Center Knowledge

Network hardware and software development cycles are now independent of each other Read More.

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Is Your Organization “VDI Ready”?

Nutanix

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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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Three “G”s in Running a High-Performing Digital IT

Future of CIO

Gauging IT success is about triangulating value from different lenses in building a more comprehensive IT value proposition. Nowadays information is the lifeblood and technologies are often the innovation disruptor. The days of the invisible, back office CIO are gone - or going. The enterprise needs to see and know, what the CIO is delivering to enable business growth.

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Fed Tech Roundup November 23

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. 19 years and counting. Nextgov: Pentagon Launches Self-Confirmation Tool for OPM Hack Victims - ExecutiveGov. Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce to Change Name to Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce in 2016.

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Four Things to Consider When Moving Your Oracle Database to All-Flash

Data Center Knowledge

Many of the legacy storage recommendations people are familiar with for Oracle DB may no longer hold true in the flash world, so understanding what’s different will be key to success. Read More.

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Is Your Organization “VDI Ready”?

Nutanix

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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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An Introduction to Terraform

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’m going to provide a quick introduction to Terraform , a tool that is used to provision and configure infrastructure. Terraform allows you to define infrastructure configurations and then have those configurations implemented/created by Terraform automatically. In this respect, you could compare Terraform to similar solutions like OpenStack Heat, AWS CloudFormation, and others.

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Cognitio: Strategic Consulting And Engineering To Improve Results

CTOvision

The technology insights and context of CTOvision are brought to you by Cognitio. Cognitio is a strategic consulting and engineering firm established and managed by a team of former senior technology executives from the U.S. Intelligence Community. Our accomplished team has a track record of safeguarding some of the nation’s greatest secrets, equipping U.S. leadership with actionable intelligence that helps protect lives and driving technology innovation that has kept key agencies generations ahe

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Amazon Rolls Out Dedicated Physical Servers

Data Center Knowledge

Gives customers control of physical hosts so they can carry over enterprise software licenses from on-prem data centers to cloud Read More.

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Is Your Organization “VDI Ready”?

Nutanix

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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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Fed Tech Roundup November 24

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. National Science Foundation, Agriculture Release CIO-Boosting FITARA Plans - Nextgov. 2015 Greater Washington Heart Walk Raises $1.85 Million with Vencore’s Mac Curtis as Chair. Leidos, USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute to Partner on Research Projects.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Sell Microsoft Azure Cloud Services

Data Center Knowledge

Will offer Azure as "preferred" cloud provider following axing of own Helion cloud Read More.

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Google Buys Solar Power for North Carolina Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

Contracts with Duke for power from future 61 MW solar project Read More.

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Verizon Teams with VMTurbo to Help Clients Move Apps to Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

New Intelligent Cloud Control service brings intelligence and automation to cloud workload migration decisions 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.

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Why CA Stopped Selling its DCIM Software Suite

Data Center Knowledge

Analysts cite tough competition, CA’s lack of facilities background, low DCIM revenue Read More.

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FusionStorm to Resell Private OpenStack Cloud Appliance by Mirantis

Data Center Knowledge

Unlocked Appliances consist of Dell servers, Juniper switches, and Mirantis OpenStack cloud software Read More.

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HostDime to Build $25M Orlando Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

Seven-story building to include three floors of data center space and new company headquarters Read More.

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Texas Colo with Efficient Data Center Cooling System Launched

Data Center Knowledge

Aligned brings online its first pay-per-use colocation site in Plano Read More.

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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.