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The Impact of Cloud Robotics on Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Look at any science-fiction vision of our technological future and you’ll find a world dominated by artificial intelligence. Some of these visions may go for the more dystopian angle, where humanity has been displaced by self-aware robots that now rule the world. Other, more optimistic views look at AI as a great benefit to our species, helping us in exploration and furthering the advances of scientific endeavors.

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Mega Data Center Design: What DuPont Fabros Learned from Building Its Biggest Facility Yet

Data Center Knowledge

About one year ago, DuPont Fabros Technology, whose business is building massive data centers and leasing wholesale space to companies on a long-term basis, brought online its biggest facility yet: ACC7 in Ashburn, Virginia.

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Two Questions To Ask Before Kicking Off a Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Take a look around and you'll find plenty of articles on Digital Transformation by the media, consulting services, and software companies. A recent articles by Steven Andriole suggest that it is more than just business process re-engineering while Scott Anthony sites examples of one Bank CEO deciding to lead by example and learned to code a mobile app.

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Cut Costs Or Grow Profits: What Should A CIO Do?

The Accidental Successful CIO

What is more important to a CIO: costs or profits? Image Credit: Susy Morris. Here’s a quick question for you: what is more important for a CIO to do – cut costs or boost revenues? I think that it’s fair to say that because of the importance of information technology, we are called on to do both at the same time; however, they can’t both be of equal value.

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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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Fed Tech Roundup September 30

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Northrop Grumman to Feature Maritime Security Capabilities at Pacific 2015. Audit: Federal networks still vulnerable - The Hill. Self-Driving Cars Could Save 300000 Lives Per Decade in America - Nextgov. Q&A: How Games are Changing Federal Disaster Response - Nextgov.

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How to Select the Right Cloud Management Tools

Data Center Knowledge

Your infrastructure, including your data center and your cloud, are the heart of your business. Without the right management tools your go-to-market strategy can suffer. Read More.

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The Startup Experience at AWS re:Invent

All Things Distributed

AWS re:Invent is just over one week away—as I prepare to head to Vegas, I’m pumped up about the chance to interact with AWS-powered startups from around the world. One of my favorite parts of the week is being able to host three startup-focused sessions Thursday afternoon: The Startup Scene in 2016: a Visionary Panel [Thursday, 2:45PM]. In this session, I’ll moderate a diverse panel of technology experts who’ll discuss emerging trends all startups should be aware of, including how local governme

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Fed Tech Roundup September 2

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. Former Intelligence Director: Law Enforcement Must 'Adapt' to Encryption. - Nextgov. Inside the CIA's new Digital Directorate - FCW.com. August 28 Cyber Intelligencer: The Accelerating Decline of Paid Anti-virus.

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Which Data Center Skills are in Demand Today

Data Center Knowledge

Latest State of the Data Center Industry survey results show hunger for automation and cloud, DCIM, load balancing, and more Read More.

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Using Vagrant with OpenStack

Scott Lowe

In my earlier post on using Docker Machine with OpenStack, I talked about combining technologies in a “provider/consumer” model. In this post, I’m going to talk about creating this provider/consumer model using a different combination of technologies: OpenStack as the infrastructure provider and Vagrant for consuming that infrastructure. If you’re unfamiliar with Vagrant, I recommend you first read this introduction to Vagrant (after that you can dig into all the other Vagrant-tagged posts ).

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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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Digital Master Chapter VII Introduction: Digital Intelligence

Future of CIO

Digital means flow: data flow, information flow, knowledge flow, and mind flow. A digital shift is a mind shift, which also comes with information shift, a shift that organizations will take advantage of information to gain knowledge and insight, a shift to drive culture and transformation toward a more intelligent enterprise, a shift from playing smart tools to being an intelligent business, it’s about building such cohesive, agile and intellectual capabilities to adapt to the continuous change

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Fed Tech Roundup September 28

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. GAO: Small businesses working with DoD need cybersecurity guidance. Technology One making inroads into Federal Govt - Delimiter. ACLU Argues for Right to Sue NSA for “Upstream” Surveillance - Nextgov. Can the US Trust China to Stop Stealing Business Secrets?

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Coping With Data Deluge: Data Center Power, Cooling, Management Trends

Data Center Knowledge

Demand for data center services growing, power and cooling reliability and data center management tools are growing in importance Read More.

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Server StorageIO September 2015 Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

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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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How to Leverage Systems Thinking in Cause Effect Analysis

Future of CIO

The purpose of Systems Thinking is to frame-solve problems and creating desirable futures. Systems Thinking is searching for meaningful relationships both within these subsystems and between them; monitoring and observing links and feedback systems. That is complex. One thing that seems often to be left unconsidered is that in order to leverage Systems Thinking, one must have grown a brain capable of highly complex cognition to do cause-effect analysis, with the goals not to complicate a system,

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Fed Tech Roundup September 29

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem (from FedTechTicker.com and TopTechTicker.com ): Fed Tech Ticker. DHA Vet Allen Middleton Heads to Booz Allen; Andrea Inserra Comments. Mike Petters Receives ‘Lone Sailor’ Award From Navy Memorial Foundation. Hurd on the Hill - FCW.com. Shutdown guide, CTO study, US/UK cyber ties and more - FCW.com.

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The Dawn of a New Era for Data Center Interconnect

Data Center Knowledge

The phenomenal growth in Internet traffic and the fierce migration to cloud-based services in recent years are combining to force a dramatic rethink of how data centers are connected. Read More.

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Nutanix Technology Champion 2016 Applications Are Open

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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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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Digital Master Chapter VIII Introduction: Digital Workforce

Future of CIO

The future of work is not the place we go, but the tasks we accomplish. The future of work will remain “imperfect”; more stress, faster deadlines, reduced budget, etc. However, the digital workplace is more flexible and productive, propelled by technology to affect where we work, how we work and at what time we choose to work. Our reach becomes global, distance disappears and connectivity increases, the future of work is indeed more fun, purposeful and intelligent.

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Tamr Opens a Free Public Beta Program

CTOvision

Tamr has opened a public Beta program for an enterprise metadata catalog tool that makes it easy for people to find, use and collaborate in organizing high-quality data sets for analytics. Tamr Catalog, part of the larger Tamr Data Unification Platform, is now being offered as a free standalone tool to encourage broad adoption of vendor- and platform-neutral metadata cataloging ─ the first step in effective analytics and in bringing organizations out of the “Dark Data” era.Beginning today, the T

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Preparing for a Successful Data Migration

Data Center Knowledge

When it comes to completing a successful data migration, you should be able to answer seven key questions before you start the project. Read More.

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Nutanix Technology Champion 2016 Applications Are Open

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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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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Digital Master Chapter IX: Digital Maturity

Future of CIO

From doing digital to being digital. Digital makes a profound impact from specific function to business as a whole, the purpose of such radical digitalization is to make a significant difference in the overall levels of customer delight and achieve high performing business result. High mature digital organizations have the high-level digital capability not only to build digital innovations but also to drive enterprise-wide transformation.

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Bright Computing and Curtiss-Wright Working Together

CTOvision

This month, the Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced that its Defense Solutions division is collaborating with the leading High Performance Computing (HPC) software vendor Bright Computing. Bright Computing has brought their supercomputing software tools to the embedded Aerospace & Defense market to be a part of Curtiss-Wright’s OpenHPEC TM Accelerator Suite TM.

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Data Center Management and Control: Good SLAs Make Good Neighbors

Data Center Knowledge

Monitoring, DR readiness, partnership with provider vital considerations in selecting right data center services Read More.

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Have it Your Way! You Pick the Cloud Model

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud consumption models can help customers discover how well their cloud services are protecting an and give them a broad view of their organization's cloud usage. Read More.

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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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AP: States Issued $1.5B in Data Center Tax Breaks over Past Decade

Data Center Knowledge

As economic-development officials compete for data center builds, their economic benefits remain controversial Read More.

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Private Links to Office 365 Now Live at Equinix Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Private links to SaaS next frontier as colo giant carves out its place in enterprise cloud market Read More.

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Six Facts in High-Availability Data Center Design

Data Center Knowledge

A more redundant design doesn’t always mean a more reliable one Read More.

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Vapor IO’s Server Management Controller to Be Powered by 64-Bit ARM Chips

Data Center Knowledge

Innovative data center startup and Applied Micro partner around top-of-rack BMC replacement Read More.

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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.