Sat.Dec 01, 2012 - Fri.Dec 07, 2012

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DoD Conference Guidance ? The Definition of Insanity - CTOvision

CTOvision

'When a handful of people from GSA became famous for waste and fraud in a lavish conference in Las Vegas, DoD was forced to peer inside a can of worms. As we grappled with providing support to two simultaneous war.

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Creating a better world through apps: the power of mobile in catalyzing networks for good

Trends in the Living Networks

I was recently invited to attend the presentations and awards for the Vodafone App Aid competition and to interview Guy Kawasaki, who was one of the event’s judges. App Aid selected 10 charities who saw the need for a mobile app. App developers signed up for teams that developed apps from scratch in 48 hours for each of the charities. The winning teams received prizes to help them complete and launch their apps.

Mobile 165
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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: GovTech Innovator: Kevin.

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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Lessons That CIOs Can Learn From The Energy Business (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Energy Biz CIOs know how to get to where they want to go to… Image Credit. As a CIO you are going to want to learn from what other CIOs are doing. What this means is that you are going to have to keep your eyes open and look around at different industries to find CIOs who are both facing and solving challenges that you may one day have to face yourself.

Energy 100
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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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ClearStory: Sensemaking over big data. - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures. Palo Alto, Calif. (December 5, 2012) ? ClearStory Data, a company delivering a new big data solution that makes it simple for.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Multiple Naming Schemas in the customsettings.ini file

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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Is VMware headed the slow painful death of Novell

Virtualized Greek

'If you’ve spent any time reading my blog you know I’m a big fan of VMware’s virtualization platform and the entire management suite vSphere/vCloud and vETC. I believe it is by far the best technical solution for x86 virtualization. Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) is a compelling feature and a huge value on its own. The ability for vCenter to automatically adjust workloads across server clusters is unparalleled.

Vmware 78
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CTOlabs Quickstart Tutorial: Thetus Savanna and analysis of the.

CTOvision

'Savanna by Thetus Software that provides model enabled analysis capabilities to enterprise users. In the video below, Bob Gourley provides a quickstart tutorial showing how easy it is to get Savanna immediately focused on.

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Ostrichitis! - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Ostrichitis! by Brian Katz on December 6, 2012 · 3 comments. I’ve had the chance to be on stage a couple of times in the last month and one of my favorite things to ask is how many people work at companies that have a policy for BYOD (Bring your own device). In both cases about 60% of the room raised their hand.

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Walking Into the Nutanix Innovation Storm

Nutanix

After a terrific 3.5 year run at the highly disruptive and successful network security company Palo Alto Networks, I joined Nutanix as VP of Marketing exactly one month ago with great excitement and optimism about the opportunity we have to help enterprises reinvent their datacenters.

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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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Why VMware is spinning off Cloud Foundry and SpringSource

Virtualized Greek

'Reblogged from GigaOM: To say VMware and EMC are desperately seeking enterprise cloud credibility with the proposed spinoff of Cloud Foundry and SpringSource along with key EMC(s emc) technologies into a separate subsidiary might be overstating the case. But not by much. The move shows that EMC and VMware(s vmw) must strengthen their hand in enterprise software and cloud computing.

Vmware 40
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Samsung Opens Paris Mobile Store, Eric Schmidt wonders why.

CTOvision

'Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Samsung Mobile Store opens its doors in Paris, France - This is Samsung's first retail store dedicated only to its mobile devices. As the top smartphone manufacturer in the.

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MongoDB, Hadoop and humongous data at MongoSV 2012

SPF13

'This presentation given at MongoSV 2012 focuses on data processing when using MongoDB as your primary database including integration with Hadoop & the new MongoDB aggregation framework. Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing. Using tools like MapReduce, Pig and Streaming you will learn how to do analytics and ETL on large datasets with the ability to load and save data against MongoDB.

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The Multiple Characteristics of Global Leaders

Future of CIO

There are many multi-national companies around, but very few global companies; there are many international managers, but very few genuine global leaders today. According to one survey of senior executives from a prestigious consulting firm, the majority of business executives believe their organizations need to develop global leadership capabilities, but less than ten percent think they are currently doing so very effectively.

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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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InfiniBand vs. Gigabit

Virtualized Greek

'This is a great article that intends to argue the values of one interconnect over another. I enjoyed it more because it gave a great high level breakdown of InfiniBand as a stand alone transport technology in both HPC and now more in traditional enterprise networking. It’s also used in converged networking solutions. Article is worth the read. .

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

'Welcome to Technology Short Take #27! This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out.

Vmware 109
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MongoDB, Hadoop and humongous data at MongoSV 2012

SPF13

'This presentation given at MongoSV 2012 focuses on data processing when using MongoDB as your primary database including integration with Hadoop & the new MongoDB aggregation framework. Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing. Using tools like MapReduce, Pig and Streaming you will learn how to do analytics and ETL on large datasets with the ability to load and save data against MongoDB.

Data 159
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MongoDB, Hadoop and humongous data at MongoSV 2012

SPF13

'This presentation given at MongoSV 2012 focuses on data processing when using MongoDB as your primary database including integration with Hadoop & the new MongoDB aggregation framework. Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing. Using tools like MapReduce, Pig and Streaming you will learn how to do analytics and ETL on large datasets with the ability to load and save data against MongoDB.

Data 100
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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.