Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 9, 2013
'Solar flares are a potential threat to critical infrastructure, according to NASA scientists. who say the sun''s vast magnetic field is about to flip, an event that creates an elevated risk of solar activity and "space weather." One concern for data center providers is the potential for solar.
Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 7, 2013
'I ran across IBM’s “ How NOT to run a midsize business… ” site and immediately spent some time sifting through the site. You’ve most likely seen the cards from someecards.com running around the web these days. IBM has taken the idea of those cards and applied them to the midsize business (and business in general). You should jump over and read through some of the posts there…there are some that are quite funny.
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SPF13
AUGUST 4, 2013
'I gave this presentation to a packed house at DevCon5 in NYC July 24th. DevCon5 is a web developers conference and this year it focused on HTML5. This was one of the hardest presentations I’ve worked on for the simple fact that the audience had name recognition, but not familiarity with the database industry. Typically I’ve leaned on the fact that most participants were familiar with at least one database prior to my presentation, I had no such luxury here.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 6, 2013
'A very interesting global survey title The Professional Revolution has just been released by Thomson Reuters (Disclosure: I long ago worked for its predecessor Thomson Financial as Global Director – Capital Markets). The report uncovers a number of very interesting insights into professionals and professional work. One of the most interesting is the differences between emerging market and developed market professionals.
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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.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 6, 2013
'Last July 1, the "Leap Second" bug caused many Linux servers to get stuck in a loop, endlessly checking the date and time. At the Internet''s busiest data centers, power usage almost instantly spiked by megawatts. Here''s a look at Facebook''s experience, which has led the company to develop its own.
Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 6, 2013
'I just finished reading an article written by John Mason titled When Small Businesses Use Cloud and Mobile to Go Global ” over on IBM’s Smarter Planet Blog. The article is a very good one and worth the jump to read… just remember to come back here and finish up with my post. In the article, John writes: By adopting a cloud and mobile worldview and considering the whole end-to-end experience, small business owners today can quickly be on their way to seizing new, global market opportunitie
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 7, 2013
'Tomorrow I am giving the closing keynote at Oracle Cloud Day Auckland on The Power of Social Media. Below are my keynote slides. The usual disclaimer applies: the slides are designed to accompany my keynote, not to be viewed as stand-alone slides, but may still be of some interest to those who have not attended my presentation. The Power of Social Media – Keynote slides from Ross Dawsn.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 6, 2013
'Start-up company Crossbar came out of stealth mode Monday with an announcement that it has created a new category of memory that is capable of storing 1TB of data on a single chip.
Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 4, 2013
'CIOs need to learn to become enablers rather than gatekeepers — Tech News and Analysis. Quote : CIO bashing has become popular sport, but in reality companies are now finding an edge by focusing less on cost-cutting and more on how IT can help enable better functionality and innovation. Jim’s Notebook: Measuring What Matters. Quote : Ultimately, the work we do is about improving the customer experience, taking it on faith that it will result in improving the financial performance of our f
Mick's IT Blog
AUGUST 7, 2013
'This script will uninstall an application with just the partial description that is listed in Add/Remove programs. It searches the product list and then grabs the GUID to use in the MSI uninstallation. At current, it will only uninstall apps that use an MSI installer. I am going to be updating this script to be able to use executables also. Function UninstallOldApplication($Description) {.
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 6, 2013
'Earlier this year I gave the opening keynote at the Thought Leadership Forum on The Virtual University , which examined the future of business education. The event organizers, the Centre for Accounting, Governance, and Sustainability and the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia , have now released a book The Virtual University: Impact on Australian Accounting and Business Education based on the conference proceedings.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 8, 2013
'How widespread is government surveillance of data stored in the cloud? What about commercial profiling? Bill Kleyman looks at what we know about surveillance of cloud computing providers, as well as what we don''t know and can''t know.
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 6, 2013
'It’s been a couple of weeks since I published anything here, so I wanted to just provide a brief update. I know that posting something about why I haven’t posted something is…odd, I guess you could say. In any case, a number of factors—some personal, some professional—have contributed to why I haven’t been able to generate some useful new content in the last couple of weeks.
A Screw's Loose
AUGUST 9, 2013
'I’ve had the same conversation a number of times over the last few weeks. Business groups or even IT groups that have set a goal to move all of their users to one device within the next year and a half. You can’t blame them really. As tablets have started to overtake PC/Laptop sales, most [.].
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Storage IO Blog
AUGUST 8, 2013
'How much storage performance do you want vs. need? The answer is probably it depends on cost, which applications or benefit among other things. I recently did a piece over at 21cit titled Parsing the Need for Speed in Storage that looks at those and other related themes including metrics that matter across tiered storage. […].
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 3, 2013
'The Week in Review: QTS mulls an IPO, Internap to migrate out of 111 8th Avenue, ProfitBricks slashes cloud pricing, cloud exchanges will bring commoditization and its benefits, Uptime founder Ken Brill passes away.
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 4, 2013
'An earlier post I theorized that VMware was looking to basically rebrand OpenStack as just another VMware tool or add-on. I don’t really believe OpenStack competes directly with vCloud and especially vSphere as OpenStack doesn’t offer its own official hypervisor. With the release of the Grizzly version of OpenStack comes and new VMware driver that allows interoperability between vCenter and OpenStack.
Future of CIO
AUGUST 7, 2013
Think inside the box - what can you do in the short term; shape the new box of thinking - what can you do in the long term. IT is huge investment and costly in most of organizations, whether it is "planning" or "performance"; "process" or "people" issues - the CIOs shouldn't have been “overwhelmed” by complexity of IT and uncertainty of business dynamic, besides setting up practical IT Principles to follow, what are those IT practices can be shared?
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A Screw's Loose
AUGUST 6, 2013
'The best part of being back from vacation is catching up with people. Your mind has had a chance to rest and hopefully put your work aside (it’s good to not look at emails for a week) and you come back refreshed and raring to go. One of the conversations I had last week was [.].
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 8, 2013
'Facility development for smaller operators varies from what the Big Boys at Apple and Google are able to do, says Shawn Mills of Greenhouse Data. Mills kicks off a series on data center construction for the smaller company and how to leverage the experience of an enterprise more scaled to the small.
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 7, 2013
'Talking a little vOpenStack. That’s right you heard me vOpenStack is what I’m hoping to see from VMware at VMworld.
Future of CIO
AUGUST 5, 2013
IT is trending towards becoming 'service' elastic and on-demand which moves faster, more flexible, and more resilient. IT Management is a strange animal, in that the capabilities are there, the data is there - but the motivations are often confused. IT tends to measure itself against trivial things IT considers important but are often less important and impactful in the business lens.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 7, 2013
'CIO have to make sure that only good codes comes out of their IT department Image Credit. A big change is starting to happen in the world of IT. Just a few years ago, IT shops everywhere were busy trying to outsource just about every task that they could put their hands on. What’s happened since then is that CIOs have realized importance of information technology and that the ability to create custom code that will allow their company to move quicker and do more is something that has to b
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 7, 2013
'In a bid to reinvigorate its POWER processor architecture, IBM this week announced a new development alliance called the OpenPOWER Consortium, with Google, Mellanox, NVIDIA and Tyan as initial members.
Cloud Musings
AUGUST 8, 2013
'( A guest post from Ray Holloman, NJVC Corporate Communications ). Two stories sat atop baseball''s marquee in the final days of July. The first was the non-waiver trade deadline, baseball’s annual. pros-for-prospects surge staffing. The second was the pending punishment of Alex Rodriguez, the former sweet-swinging shortstop turned sullen. slugger turned cautionary tale and financial wild pitch of the New York.
Future of CIO
AUGUST 9, 2013
Planning is shareware, not shelf-ware. Nowadays, agility eats strategy for lunch, should you still make a plan, how much planning is too much? What level of detail is necessary to be effective? Planning is key and necessary. The extent or exhaustiveness of a plan will vary dependent upon a spectrum of factors which include dimensions such as size, that is $ spend, resources to be marshaled, complexity in terms of project reach, use of new technology, capability and maturity of both the user comm
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The Investing Edge
AUGUST 8, 2013
'Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it… Given that Apple’s blockbuster introduction of the iPhone six years ago effectively created the smartphone market, it’s astonishing that Android today reigns supreme. Within the U.S., depending on which figures you wish to reference, Android has anywhere from an eight-to-twelve percent lead over Apple iOS.
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 5, 2013
'Is regulatory compliance a barrier to cloud adoption? Not at NASDAQ OMX FinQloud, which is now hosting a service that monitors compliance requirements for high-frequency trading operations.
Eric D. Brown
AUGUST 9, 2013
'Nothing special about this one…other than It was a test of the Canon 1D Mark IV on the first day I had it. I do wonder if he (she?) knows there’s something on his (her?) bill. 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.
Future of CIO
AUGUST 3, 2013
EA is not a management role but it must be able to advocate and communicate effectively with business leaders; it also enables the organization to navigate from strategy to execution. So is EA an analytical role? Where does EA add value to an organization? Where should EA provide value? Does it add value that is not already provided in an organization by a strategy group, by an organizational development group, by business innovation and transformation group?
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