Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 20, 2013
'Will Iceland become a growth market for data centers? In this special report we examine Iceland''s advantages and challenges as a data center destination, and provide an inside look at the power resources that are central to its ambitions.
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 23, 2013
'I just finished reading Big Data for Small and Medium Businesses on IBM’s Forward View. In the article, IBM VP Paul Zikopoulos talks about big data and its importance to the small and medium business today. Paul describes big data thusly: I want to start out by noting that big data isn’t only about the volume of data, it’s about bringing data together that hasn’t been correlated in the past.
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The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 23, 2013
'Xerox Screwed Up And People Went Hungry Image Credit. I’m hoping that you are not familiar with the U.S. food stamp program. This is a government funded program that provides people who are living below the poverty line with money that can only be spent on food. Clearly it’s a critical program that demonstrates the importance of information technology and the people who are enrolled in it desperately need it.
Cloud Musings
OCTOBER 25, 2013
'Industry''s transition from custom made, one-of-a-kind IT infrastructures to the standardize, commodity based cloud paradigm is well on it''s way. IBM''s recent " Under Cloud Cover " study highlights the rapidly of this global transformation: "According to our global study of more than 800 cloud decision makers and. users, business leaders of all stripes – Finance, Sales & Marketing, Product.
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.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 24, 2013
'For years, Quanta Computer has been building servers for Facebook and Rackspace based on design concepts advanced by the Open Compute Project (OCP). Today Quanta launched a line of hardware products making those Open Compute designs available to a broader pool of customers.
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 22, 2013
'I ran across a blog the other data that used the term “ dark data ” when describing an organization’s data that is collected during standard business activities that never really gets used for any purpose other than its original purpose. Dark Data is that data the gets created, collected, stored but rarely revisited for any purpose after its initial use.
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The Investing Edge
OCTOBER 21, 2013
'I attended two local industry events recently that highlighted the substantial gap that exists between hackers’ abilities and the average corporation’s information security defenses. While we’ve been watching the security industry closely and work with several portfolio companies in this area, it’s nonetheless unsettling how far behind the average corporation is, and how daunting the chasm is between where they are and where they need to be.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 25, 2013
'With everything moving towards a cloud model, organizations must deploy security. Bill Kleyman looks at some of the ways cloud security be an enabler of greater cloud agility, rather than a barrier.
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 20, 2013
'The Secret of Good IT Communications. Quote : To be brief is to be selective. Choosing only the most important details is crucial. There should be just a few. Arranged carefully in your email, presentation, or pitch, they should support the story you’re trying to tell. Because you’re always telling a story, that’s how we communicate most naturally and most effectively.
All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 25, 2013
'Many of you know Thorsten von Eicken as the founder of Rightscale , the company that has helped numerous organizations find their way onto AWS. In what seems almost a previous life by now Thorsten was one of the top young professors in Distributed Systems and I had the great pleasure of working with him at Cornell in the early 90''s. What set Thorsten aside from so many other system research academics was his desire to build practical, working systems, a path that I followed as well.
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Storage IO Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2013
'Seagate Kinetic Cloud and Object Storage I/O platform Seagate announced today their Kinetic platform and drive designed for use by object API accessed storage including for cloud deployments. The Kinetic platform includes Hard Disk Drives (HDD) that feature 1Gb Ethernet (1 GbE) attached devices that speak object access API or what Seagate refers to as […].
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 23, 2013
'How does Dropbox store files for those 200 million users, who store 1 billion files every 24 hours? The company uses more than uses more than 10,000 physical servers to manage user content, along with Amazon Web Services. Here''s an overview from the Velocity conference.
Virtualized Greek
OCTOBER 21, 2013
'VMworld 2013 Keynote. Prior to VMware purchasing Nicira, the company was one of a handful of SDN players on the market. You could argue that they weren’t even the most mature product on the market at the time. Take for example companies such as Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) that has launched similar SDN solutions geared specifically to the Cloud marked.
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 21, 2013
'In this post, I’ll show you how I extended my solution for managing user accounts with Puppet to include managing SSH authorized keys. With this solution in place, user accounts managed through Puppet can also include their SSH public key, and that public key will automatically be installed on hosts where the account is realized. All in all, I think it’s a pretty cool solution.
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A Screw's Loose
OCTOBER 21, 2013
'I have recently become a Glasshole. You know, one of those people who wears Google Glass around town. I managed to get a pair through work and we are looking at them for a number of uses but there’s no getting around the fact that sometimes I am just a plain old Glasshole. I’ve had [.].
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 21, 2013
'When a service with 1.15 billion users is not working, what are users to do? The answer is to shift to Twitter and other social media sites and talk about the fact that Facebook is down. Many users have responded with humor rather than angst or outrage.
Storage IO Blog
OCTOBER 23, 2013
'Fall 2013 StorageIO Update Newsletter Welcome to the Fall 2013 (joint September and October) edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics. It is fall (at least here in north America) which means conferences, symposium, virtual and physical events, seminars, webinars in addition to normal client project […].
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 23, 2013
'Welcome to Technology Short Take #36. In this episode, I’ll share a variety of links from around the web, along with some random thoughts and ideas along the way. I try to keep things related to the key technology areas you’ll see in today’s data centers, though I do stray from time to time. In any case, enough with the introduction—bring on the content!
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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
OCTOBER 21, 2013
'The Red Sox are inspiring people all over New England and beyond. Consistently high performance, a team ethos we haven''t seen at Fenway in years, gut-wrenching late-inning drama, and a genuine personality (see also: #fearthebeard) have made them compelling to watch, especially when one considers the well-documented depths to which they fell in 2012, and that only six months ago, a bruised city turned to them for inspiration in the wake of the tragedy on Patriot''s Day.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 24, 2013
'As he attended recent industry events, it became abundantly clear why a CIO should care about DCIM. Matt Bushell of Nylte Software outlines the reasons DCIM should definitely be on the radar screen of the IT executive.
Virtualized Greek
OCTOBER 20, 2013
'My thoughts on the the general availability of NSX and some challenges facing SDN.
Future of CIO
OCTOBER 23, 2013
The Future of the organization is hyper-connected, always-on and border-less. We all understand that the rapid changes in the marketplace and technological advances provide growth opportunities for business to thrive, but also put additional pressures on organizations to survive. So which role Business Architecture needs to play in the future of enterprises, and how Business Architecture, as a discipline, can help design and manage such future organization. 1.
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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
OCTOBER 21, 2013
The Red Sox are inspiring people all over New England and beyond. Consistently high performance, a team ethos we haven't seen at Fenway in years, gut-wrenching late-inning drama, and a genuine personality (see also: #fearthebeard) have made them compelling to watch, especially when one considers the well-documented depths to which they fell in 2012, and that only six months ago, a bruised city turned to them for inspiration in the wake of the tragedy on Patriot's Day.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 23, 2013
'The Wikimedia Foundation is looking to expand its data center infrastructure, and is seeking a site in the western United States to support the growth of Wikipedia, which is one of the most visited destinations on the Internet.
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 22, 2013
'I have just finished running a two-day program in Phuket for the Malaysian Directors Academy on The Innovation Zone: Unleashing the Mindset. The Academy also asked me to contribute an article to their magazine Board View. The piece is below, providing a high-level view on the role of company directors in driving innovation. I find it interesting how little attention seems to be paid explicitly to the role of directors in innovation.
Future of CIO
OCTOBER 22, 2013
The Magic "I" in CIOs' title is innovation, influence, intelligence, and beyond. IT is on the way to transform from a cost center to value creator, so does IT leaders, CIOs are no longer good enough to be tactical IT managers only, they have to play multiple leadership roles and wear the different hat to deal with business complexity today. So, What're the characteristics of next-gen CIOs as effective business leaders and "Chief Interpreter Officer"?
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Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 22, 2013
'Millions of IOPS, massive amounts of resources -- all under one converged infrastructure platform. The integration of solid state memory into converged platforms - recently seen in Cisco''s acquisition of Whiptail - has the potential to alter the playing field for the industry.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 24, 2013
'ViaWest announced it is building a 210,000 gross square foot data center in the southeast of Denver, which will be designed to achieve Uptime Institute Design Certification for Tier IV status.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 21, 2013
'Interconnection and data center specialist Equinix and landlord Digital Realty Trust have entered into agreements for five data center lease renewals in key markets.
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 24, 2013
'Teradata (TDC) held its annual Partners Conference this week in Dallas, where it announced Netflix usage of the Teradata Cloud, a new data backup and recovery Data Stream architecture, and several other customer wins for the Teradata platform.
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