Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
'IBM today introduced the NeXtScale System, a new x86 computing platform designed to bring "the power of a supercomputer in any data center." IBM says the new servers will combine high-density and improved power efficiency, and can operate in data center environments as warm as 104 degrees F.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
'By Charles Brooks Editor’s note: This post by Charles Brooks focuses on an area of importance to not just the federal enterprise but to the larger cyber security community. -bg. Recent Congressional Hearings have called attention to the need for better cooperation between government agencies and the private sector. An excellent example of how to fulfill that goal of successful public/private partnerships is demonstrated by the work of the Transition to Practice Program (TTP) at the Depart
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
CIO Musings
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
'COVITS is the information technology conference for state and local governments in Virginia. This year I was asked to give the opening remarks before the keynote speaker. I was pleased to be able to address the crowd, and even more pleased that the conference organizer (Jack Mortimer, eRepublic) wanted to highlight the participation of the localities in the conference.
Eric D. Brown
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
'Finding the right people has always been a problem for IT organizations for many reasons. There’s always been a “build or buy” decision for organizations – do they hire and “build” people into what they need them to be or do they just go out and “buy” employees for that particular role and/or hire consultants or outsource the work? With big data becoming popular over the last few years, its been time for the “build or buy’ decision again.
Advertisement
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 9, 2013
'In recent weeks Microsoft has leased a large chunk of data center space in Silicon Valley, as well as additional space in northern Virginia. The latest leases continue a massive expansion of Microsoft''s Internet infrastructure to support growth in its Azure cloud services and Xbox Live gaming.
The Accidental Successful CIO
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
'The scene of the CIO crime? Image Credit. Not sure if you’ve heard about this one, but on Thursday, August 22, 2013, the American Nasdaq stock exchange was shut down for three hours because of a communication problem. Investigators are still trying to understand exactly what happened; however, we should probably asking ourselves if this problem was caused by the Nasdaq’s CIO?
Information Technology Zone brings together the best content for IT professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Eric D. Brown
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
'Anticipate the Corporate Culture of “No!” – Sales Aerobics for Engineers ® Blog. Quote : Do you work in a Culture of No? Some of you will be defeated by the situation, shoulders slumped, as you return to your cubicle. The design budget wasn’t approved, again. The sale didn’t close, again. Whatever the situation, the corporate culture of “No!
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
'After addressing the growing market for optimized low-power workloads last week with the Atom C2000 processor, Intel turned to to the brawny side of the data center Tuesday with the launch of the Xeon E5-2600 v2 product family.
A CIO's Voice
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
'I read this recently on LinkedIn. It’s sad but I know a lot of “managers” that fall into these categories. The comments following the article are especially good. The Tell-Tale Signs Of A Bad Boss by Bernard Marr. [link]. Filed under: C-Level Executives , Leadership , Management Tagged: IT executive , leader , Leadership , leadership style , Management.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
'I recently spend some time with Gerd Leonhard recording some conversations about the future. After our video on Big Data , here are our thoughts on the future of privacy in the wake of the disclosures of NSA and US government data gathering. Some of the points we made in our conversation: * Digital data is like nuclear power – there is tremendous power yet if things go wrong we don’t know how to stop it. * It is a Faustian deal, but we shouldn’t be surprised this is happening.
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.
Eric D. Brown
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
'While working up my data analysis chapter of my dissertation, I came across some interesting tidbits of information and thought I’d share. Nothing here is earth-shattering and there’s not much I (or you) can do with this…but I thought it interesting and hope someone else out there does too. I’ve shared other findings before – and continue to share my daily Bear/Bull Ratio via my Trade The Sentiment site, which is an outcome of this research.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
'C7 has build a 95,000 square foot data center facility in Utah to accommodate an increasingly out of state customer base looking to reap the rewards the state has to offer.
Virtualized Greek
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
'I’m wondering if Cisco is fighting a losing battle with their ACI approach to SDN. Basically, they are looking to provide programmability to the network via their Application-Centric Infrastructure. This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. However, if you were to go by the response to the number of vendors supporting the NSX ecosystem you’d think the entire industry is going against this hardware
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
'It’s been a little while since I talked about libvirt directly, but in this post I’d like to go back to libvirt to talk about how you can edit a guest domain’s libvirt XML definition to adjust access to the VNC console for that guest domain. This is something of a follow-up to my post on using SSH to access the VNC consoles of KVM guests , in which I showed how to use SSH tunneling (including multi-hop tunnels) to access the VNC console of a KVM guest domain.
Advertisement
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.
Storage IO Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
'WD buys nand flash SSD storage I/O cache vendor Virident Congratulations to Virident for being bought today for $645 Million USD by Western Digital (WD). Virident a nand flash PCIe card startup vendor has been around for several years and in the last year or two has gain more industry awareness as a competitor to […].
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
'RagingWire is hooking up to Ashburn''s reclaimed water loop. The usage of water in the data center has providers looking at innovative ways to reduce their environmental impact.
Virtualized Greek
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
'Does SDN bring with it the type of innovation the original iPhone brought? Innovation takes much more than just really great technology. It’s having the right technology that disrupts the status quo and enables uses that couldn’t be predicted. For example, the iPhone revolutionized the way we look at the smart phone. Prior to the iPhone you couldn’t convince my wife that a smartphone could completely replace her MP3 player, HP IPAQ and Mobile Phone.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
'This is a liveblog of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Day 1 keynote. I was lucky enough to be invited to attend, as I did last year, and I’ll be liveblogging as many sessions and events as possible. The keynote starts promptly at 9AM with Ulmont Smith (I didn’t catch his title at Intel). He mentions that this is the 16th year of hosting IDF, and previews some of the things that will be available this year at IDF: 170 technical sessions, poster chats, longer hours in the Technology S
Advertisement
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.
Storage IO Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
'Cisco buys Whiptail continuing the Storage storage I/O flash cash cache dash Congratulations to Virident for being bought today for $645 Million USD by Western Digital (WD). Virident a nand flash PCIe card startup vendor has been around for several years and in the last year or two has gain more industry awareness as a […].
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
'There was another Amazon cloud outage this morning as the oldest AWS cloud computing region stuttered, reminding folks that if you heavily rely on that the US-EAST region, it''s good to have contingency plans.
Virtualized Greek
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
'I’m sure I’m not the only technical professional that debated the merits of vendor certifications vs. more formal education options such as college education. I’m a big believer of self-improvement and education. However, there can be debate if to invest your time and money on a formal college degree or vendor certification. This isn’t a simple question nor is there a right or wrong answer.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
'This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” (How’s that for a mouthful!) The speakers are Frank Schapfel, Senior Product Line Manager with Intel, and Brian Skerry, Open Networks System Architect with Intel.
Advertisement
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.
Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
Quality is a function of scope, budget, and resources. Agility is a model of performance without sacrificing the basic modularity of the business functions. The speed of change requires business to adapt to the dynamic, and the fiery business competition pushes business to deliver qualified products or service, thus, how to gain in-depth understanding about business capabilities-agility+quality, as well as what do you put in place or how would you then structure your business to ensure that the
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
'Dice performed an analysis around cloud searches and found that there''s a huge need for Amazon Web Services skills as well as DevOps talent. The role of Systems Administrator is evolving into one of development and operations with the rise of cloud computing.
Nutanix
SEPTEMBER 7, 2013
There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
'This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” The speakers are Brian Johnson (@thehevy on Twitter) from Intel and Jim Pinkerton from Microsoft. Brian is a Solution Architect; Jim is a Windows Server Architect. If you’ve ever been in one of Brian’s presentations, you know he does a great job of really diving deep in some of this stuff.
Advertisement
“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.
Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
Enterprise Architecture plays many roles in organizations, from strategy facilitator to capability producer; from decision influencer to governance champion, more broadly speaking, if maturity is business agility and focus on continuous improvement, then EA shall play as enterprise maturity driver, not just about EA maturity, but rather of the maturity of the enterprise itself or of the industry.
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 7, 2013
'The Week in Review: Intel targets the cloud with new Atom chips, Microsoft building in Finland, Switch moving major colo in Vegas, Telx adds space at Chicago''s major data hub, and LinkedIn is flush with infrastructure-building cash.
Eric D. Brown
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
'Every evening at the Broadmoor, a bagpiper walks the grounds and plays some songs. Captured with Canon 7D and Canon 17-40 L. See more photos in my flickr photostream and/or my Zenfolio portfolio (where you can buy images). If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by visiting Adorama (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
'This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco. (Here is the link for the liveblog from the day 1 keynote.). The keynote starts a few minutes after 9am, following a moment of silence to observe 9/11. Following that, Ulmonth Smith (VP of Sales and Marketing) takes the stage to kick off the keynote. Smith takes a few moments to recount yesterday’s keynote, particularly calling out the Quark announcement.
Advertisement
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.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
275 
Let's personalize your content