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Fountainhead: Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My!

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, October 17, 2012. Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My! A bunch of people have asked me about my new gig with Citrix. "Youre doing VDI and XenApp now? I thought you were a Cloud guy?" Yes, its true. and it’s due in part to todays announcements by Citrix about Project Avalon , the explosion of the Mobile Enterprise , and the Path to the Cloud.

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Launch of Second Edition of Getting Results From Crowds at CrowdConf

Trends in the Living Networks

[This post first appeared on the Getting Results From Crowds book website]. When Getting Results From Crowds was published in December last year the intention from the start was to regularly revise the book, both to keep apace with the rapidly changing world of crowdsourcing, and to continue to improve it. The Second Edition of Getting Results From Crowds will be launched next week at CrowdConf in San Francisco, where all attendees will receive a complimentary copy.

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Link Aggregation and LACP with Open vSwitch

Scott Lowe

'In this post, I’m going to show you how to use link aggregation (via the Link Aggregation Control Protocol, or LACP) with Open vSwitch (OVS). First, though, let’s cover some basics. In the virtualization space, it’s extremely common to want to use multiple physical network connections in your hypervisor hosts to support guest (virtual machine) traffic.

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NJVC® Introduces Cloudcuity? AppDeployer to Create and Sell

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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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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Mick's IT Blogs: Font Installation Script

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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Chart: 11 critical success factors for crowd business model

Trends in the Living Networks

On Monday October 22 I am running Crowd Business Models Summit , where some of the most experienced leaders in successfully building business models based on crowds will share their insights. The event is being run in association with CrowdConf 2012 , the leading industry crowdsourcing event. Beforehand I thought it worth sharing part of the Chapter on Crowd Business Models from Getting Results From Crowds.

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The CIO Paradox – A Book Review

A CIO's Voice

'I don’t often read books about IT leadership because I find that most try to fit business principles into technology and vice versa. The square peg into a round hole dilemma. So when Martha Heller approached me to read an advanced copy of her new book The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership it felt more like homework. I am thought to myself here is yet another step?

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Disappearing Apps - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Disappearing Apps. by Brian Katz on October 16, 2012 · 3 comments. We spend a lot of time talking about devices these days. Have you seen the new iPhone 5, the Samsung Galaxy S III, or how about that new one, what is it, the one with that really awesome camera. We think that the latest, newest, sexiest device will win the smartphone war and the enterprise will have to support it.

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The future of marketing: 7 critical applications of crowdsourcing

Trends in the Living Networks

On October 25 in New York City I will run a workshop on Crowdsourcing for Marketing in Enterprise & Agencies as part of the global Crowdsourcing Week workshop series. The following day I will run a workshop that is highly complementary, on Crowdsourcing for Media and Content. Following on from the broad-based first edition of Getting Results From Crowds , one of the most important topics I have been delving into is the application of crowdsourcing to marketing.

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OpenStack Summit Day 1 Recap Links

Scott Lowe

'This is by no means a comprehensive list, but I did want to share a few resources recapping Day 1 of the OpenStack Summit that’s happening this week in San Diego. I’m positive there are additional resources that I’ve missed, so feel free to share more links and resources in the comments to this article. Recap Posts. OpenStack Summit Day 1 Recap.

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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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An Influential Mind:Three Degree of Influence

Future of CIO

“ You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. ” ~Scott Adam Leadership is an influence. An influential mind is inspiring, persuasive, rational and empathetic. 1. What is Influence? Metaphorically: Influence is like water , permeating into where it flows… Influence is like light , brightening up the surrounding… Influence is like a seed , nature made via nurturing envir

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Free money?or is it? - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Free money…or is it? by Brian Katz on October 18, 2012 · 5 comments. I spend a lot of time thinking about mobility and the enterprise. Some of it is due to my job, other times it is due to the great friends and colleagues I get to talk to but mostly its because I just find the whole topic interesting.

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VLANs with Open vSwitch Fake Bridges - Scott Lowe

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