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A look at Facebook's Graph Search - CTOvision

CTOvision

'facebook. It seems to me that Facebook as an odd habit of changing their home screen as soon as I become accustomed to the previous layout. This is true about the newest change to Facebook, which took place over the last.

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How CIOs Can Ace Giving Interviews

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Make sure your next interview is something that you’d be willing to listen to again… Image Credit. One of the most important jobs that CIOs do which is an even bigger deal these days given the importance of information technology, is to interview candidates who would like to join their IT department. As important as this job is, very few of us have ever been trained on how to properly conduct an interview.

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Big Data, Small Data – or YOUR Data?

Eric D. Brown

'I just finished reading Big Data and Marketing: A Confused Relationship? over on Marketing Pilgrim. There’s some good stuff in the post – but what really caught my attention was a paragraph toward the end of the article. The paragraph is: Focus more on the data you have today versus getting caught up in trying to solve Big Data. Start small, learn as you go, and leverage your learnings to move forward into a Big Data world that we as marketers can definitely understand and benefit f

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The growing demand for ‘organic workplaces’: Hubs and work spaces that are good for us

Trends in the Living Networks

'This evening I went to an event at Hub Sydney. I’m a big fan of the global Hub network of co-working environments, am an ‘ Ambassador for Awesome ‘ for Hub Sydney, and have visited a number of Hubs around the world including running a crowdsourcing workshop at Hub Westminster last year. Interestingly, in every Hub I have visited I have immediately got a very positive sense about the space, something indefinably common across the Hubs, a feeling that there are good people and g

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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An Interview with Reagan Kling of Platfora - CTOvision

CTOvision

'Podcast: Play in new window | Download. In this podcast I interviewed Reagan Kling, Director of Federal Programs at Platfora. Reagan has over 25 years of experience working with the federal government. Platfora transforms.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Lessons Learned: VA Cloud.

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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Carving out the middle: how we must respond to the dangers of the polarization of work

Trends in the Living Networks

'One of the consistent themes in my Future of Work framework is the polarization of work and value. In a number of the keynotes and workshops I’ve run recently, including at the Richmond Financial Services Forum in Interlaken, the Institute of Chartered Accountants conference in Melbourne, and for the executive teams of various corporate clients, I’ve pointed to research from noted labor economist David Autor that brings into focus what is happening.

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Inside Sales Job, DCN Cables - Data Center Job Board

Data Center Knowledge

'< Back to Job Postings | FAQ. Customer Service Representative. DCN Cables. (Wake Forest, North Carolina). Posted: July 16, 2013. Address: Wake Forest, NC 27587. Occu: Other. Type: Full-time. Simply Apply. Description: DCN Cables, a fast-growing solution driven company focused on power distribution in the data center space, is looking for an accomplished, achievement-driven and results-oriented business professional for a Customer Service Representative position in our fast-paced environment.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Deconstructing Cloud: An.

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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Do the Hard Work Today for an Easier Tomorrow

Eric D. Brown

'Originally published on Its All About Recovery as Do the Hard Work Today for an Easier Tomorrow. Two years ago, you and your team spent a great deal of time and a good deal of money on a new backup and recovery system. The system and vendor you selected hit all the check boxes in the technology selection plan, and the demos of the system were perfect.

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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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PuppetConf 2013 Ticket Giveaway

Scott Lowe

'What is PuppetConf 2013 ? PuppetConf is the annual operations conference hosted by Puppet Labs. This year the conference is in San Francisco on August 22 and 23, and will be focusing on the themes of cloud automation, DevOps, and continuous delivery. All in all, it looks to be quite an interesting event. If you’re interested in going to PuppetConf 2013, then you might be in luck.

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Inside Sales Job, DCN Cables - Data Center Job Board

Data Center Knowledge

'< Back to Job Postings | FAQ. Customer Service Representative. DCN Cables. (Wake Forest, North Carolina). Posted: July 16, 2013. Address: Wake Forest, NC 27587. Occu: Other. Type: Full-time. Simply Apply. Description: DCN Cables, a fast-growing solution driven company focused on power distribution in the data center space, is looking for an accomplished, achievement-driven and results-oriented business professional for a Customer Service Representative position in our fast-paced environment.

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Mick's IT Blogs: SCCM: Initiate Hardware Inventory from an.

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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Feeling the Customer Love for AWS - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Feeling the Customer Love for AWS. By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2013 11:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). We work hard to meet our customers expectations and to continue to innovate on their behalf. This week at the Singapore AWS Summit we were fortunate that our customers Astro Radio from Kuala Lumpur were willing to join us on stage.

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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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Can we get a side of context with them IOPS and other storage metrics?

Storage IO Blog

'Server, storage and IO metrics that matter need context There is an old saying that the best I/O (Input/Output) is the one that you do not have to do. In the meantime, let’s get a side of some context with them IOPS from vendors, marketers and their pundits who are tossing them around for server, [.].

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Sales Specialist - Data Center Job Board

Data Center Knowledge

'< Back to Job Postings | FAQ. Sales Specialist - Power. Communication Supply Corporation (Carol Stream, Illinois). Posted: July 15, 2013. Address: 200 East Lies Road. Carol Stream, IL 60188. Type: Full-time. Description: Work with American Power Conversion (APC) National Account Manager and Communication Supply Corporation (CSC) Regions to build and execute a sales and marketing plan to ensure the increase of Data Center project detection, Power and Cooling sales, and attachment of APC Core

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Mick's IT Blogs: Powershell: Reset Network Adaptor with.

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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AWS re:Invent 2013 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re:Invent 2013. By Werner Vogels on 17 July 2013 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The AWS re:Invent user conference last year in Las Vegas was by many described as the best technology conference they had been to in a long time. We had worked hard to give you great keynote sessions as well as deep technical content by AWS engineers, partners and customers.

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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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PuppetConf 2013 Ticket Giveaway

Scott Lowe

'What is PuppetConf 2013 ? PuppetConf is the annual operations conference hosted by Puppet Labs. This year the conference is in San Francisco on August 22 and 23, and will be focusing on the themes of cloud automation, DevOps, and continuous delivery. All in all, it looks to be quite an interesting event. If you’re interested in going to PuppetConf 2013, then you might be in luck.

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As the platters spin, HDD’s for cloud, virtual and traditional storage environments

Storage IO Blog

'HDDs for cloud, virtual and traditional storage environments This is a follow-up to a recent series of posts on Hard Disk Drives (HDD’s) along with some posts about How Many IOPS HDD’s can do. HDD and storage trends and directions include among others HDD’s will continue to be declared dead into the next decade, just [.].

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Mick's IT Blogs: SCCM: Deploying Autodesk Revit 2013

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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Feeling the Customer Love for AWS

All Things Distributed

We work hard to meet our customer’s expectations and to continue to innovate on their behalf. This week at the Singapore AWS Summit we were fortunate that our customers Astro Radio from Kuala Lumpur were willing to join us on stage. Jayaram Gopinath Nagaraj and Kavitha Doraimaickam gave a truly electrifying presentation about how AWS has transformed their radio stations.

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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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Reducing the Friction: Processing E-Mail, Part 2 - Scott Lowe

Scott Lowe

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Seagate provides proof of life: Enterprise HDD enhancements

Storage IO Blog

'Proof of life: Enterprise Hard Disk Drives (HDD’s) are enhanced Last week while hard disk drive (HDD) competitor Western Digital (WD) was announcing yet another (Velobit) in a string of acquisitions ( e.g. earlier included Stec, Arkeia) and investments (Skyera), Seagate announced new enterprise class HDD’s to their portfolio. Note that it was only two [.].

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Mick's IT Blogs: Powershell: Autodesk Revit 2013 Building Premium.

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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The Magnet Is Always On

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

'My wife works in medical imaging, and her former company managed and sold imaging agents used in magnetic resonance (MR) diagnosic tests. Among MR technicians, a near-universal rule of safety is "The Magnet Is Always On." In order words no one, ever, should bring ferrous (metal) materials into the room where the MR machine, containing VERY powerful magnets, resides.

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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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Why is IT so Reluctant to Look at itself?

Future of CIO

IT is core to most parts of the business and must, therefore, be visible and present. With the rate of change is accelerated, it’s very important for contemporary organizations to continually do “self-reflection’ upon the business effectiveness, process efficiency, strength and risks, culture, and brand etc. IT is a critical component of the business, commonly IT self-evaluation ability is a reflection on overall business culture within the whole organization.

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Tech Talk Episode 20 – Is Network Virtualization Vaporware?

Virtualized Greek

'I provide some context around my assertion that Network Virtualization is Vaporware.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Powershell: How to verify if a Windows Feature is.

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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Five Key Trends in DCIM » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

'About DCK. Advertise. Subscribe. Events. Home. Industry Perspectives. Five Key Trends in DCIM. Five Key Trends in DCIM. By: Industry Perspectives July 19th, 2013. Tweet. Matt Bushell leads Nlyte ’s Product and Corporate Marketing efforts as their Sr. Product and Corporate Marketing Manager. Prior to joining Nlyte, Matt worked at IBM for more than ten years, helping to launch multiple products in their Information Management and SMB groups.

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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.