Sat.Aug 17, 2013 - Fri.Aug 23, 2013

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Welcome to Fog Computing: Extending the Cloud to the Edge

Data Center Knowledge

'There''s a new buzz word in distributed computing - Fog Computing. The idea of fog computing is to distribute data to move it closer to the end-user to eliminate latency and numerous hops, and support mobile computing and data streaming.

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Big Data – Construct or Reality?

Eric D. Brown

'Before we get started – a definition of “construct” is needed. Taking a page from my years in quantitative research, I submit this definition ( based on this definition ): A construct is a mental abstraction used to express an idea, object or any other ‘item’ (could be people, organizations, etc.). It’s a way of bringing theory into the ‘real’ world and attempting to explain it using other real-world examples.

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Why NoSQL Is The Wrong Choice For A CIO — Sometimes

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to realize that not every data problem can be solved by noSQL Image Credit. If you were to create a list of the buzz words that are filtering through the world of IT right now, “noSQL” would have to be at the top of your list when you are talking about the importance of information technology. CIOs everywhere have decided that they’ve had enough of traditional databases and the high vendor fees that come with them.

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Service Definition for Hosted Desktops – Where to Begin

Fountainhead

'Managed service providers know they want to offer exemplary customer-focused hosted services including apps and hosted desktops. But these firms (players ranging from niche players to global Telcos) also all struggle with the same questions: What are the right services to lead with? What customer sizes should I pursue in what markets? Does market geography matter?

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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 Realty Launching Open Internet Exchange Initiative

Data Center Knowledge

'Data center developer Digital Realty Trust is seeking to create a global open-interconnect environment that it says will provide more cost-effective exchange options.

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The immense social media opportunity for real estate

Trends in the Living Networks

'The Weekend Australian last Saturday had an interesting article titled Facebook shakes up house hunt (subscription may be required). It described how a couple had bought their dream home after finding it on the Facebook page of a real estate agent. They arranged to inspect it immediately after it appeared on the page and bought it the next day, before the for-sale sign had been put up in the yard.

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Q&A with Verivo’s Steve Levy

The Investing Edge

'I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Verivo CEO Steve Levy for 5 years. Steve is a sharp executive and has consistently built his businesses through creating new revenue models, extending product offerings, and identifying new market opportunities. It’s no surprise, then, that Verivo is considered an emerging enterprise mobility leader. Verivo helps businesses simplify the complexities associated with building, securing, and managing enterprise mobile apps.

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Enterprise-Class Support for Converged Environments

Data Center Knowledge

'Converged solutions can help CIOs rapidly deliver IT services, maximize data center efficiency, and strengthen IT service quality, writes Doug Schmitt.What are the best practices for moving to a converged solution?

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Metropolitan IQ and Urban metabolism: Great case studies of innovative, collaborative cities

Trends in the Living Networks

'Last week I went to the launch of an excellent issues paper created by The Committee for Sydney , titled #wethecity: Collaborating to Compete in the Digital Era. Lucy Turnbull, chair of Committee of Sydney, notes in her opening comments that: Cities are collaborating to compete and the ones that collaborate most compete best. The paper focuses on the challenges and opportunities for Sydney, with the summary recommendations at the bottom of this post.

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PowerShell: Find out who is logged on and logged off

Mick's IT Blog

'Being an SCCM administrator, I often have to log into machines to see if a deployment went ok. Trying to login to machines and getting the message that someone is already logged in gets tiring. Ed Wilson originally wrote a script to tell you whether a user was logged onto a machine or not. I took his script, compacted it and made it more presentable.

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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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Back-to-the-Future Weekend Reading - Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud

All Things Distributed

'The intense travels around the world in the spring have kept me from keeping up on the historical reading that I would like to do, as such there have not been that many suggesting for the back-to-basics reading list. The fall is going be not that much different but I will make an effort to get back into a reading habit. I want to kick off the fall readings not with an historical paper but with two that detail GraphLab , an excellent framework for high performance machine learning that originall

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Steve Ballmer to Retire As Microsoft CEO

Data Center Knowledge

'Microsoft Corp. today announced that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has decided to retire as CEO within the next 12 months, after a special committee of the company''s board names a new CEO.

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8 hours vs 8 hours Plus – When Is Enough Enough?

A CIO's Voice

'How much is enough? Are you productive during your 8 hours? Some organizations expect you to put in more than 8 hours. Not really for anything else but to show your dedication to working 12 plus hours each day. While there are times when one might put in such long days (i.e. after hours maintenance or systems upgrades), I subscribe to the philosophy that if you cannot complete your task or make progress to complete your task then you are doing something wrong.

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Accessing VNC Consoles of KVM Guests via SSH

Scott Lowe

'About a year ago, I published an entry on working with KVM guests , in which I described how to perform some common operations with KVM-based guest VMs (or guest domains). While reading that article today (I needed to refer back to the section on using virt-install ), I realized that I hadn’t discussed how to access the VNC console of a KVM guest.

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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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IBM Server Side Storage I/O SSD Flash Cache Software

Storage IO Blog

'IBM Server Side Storage I/O SSD Flash Cache Software As I often say, the best server storage I/O or IOP is the one that you do not have to do. The second best storage I/O or IOP is the one with least impact or that can be done in a cost-effective way. Likewise the question […].

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Hybrid is Here – The Convergence of Data Center, Hosting and Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

'Many organizations feel that if they want to go global, they have to use cloud comput­ing. This white paper from Latisys outlines the solutions typically offered by a modern Infrastruc­ture-as-a-Service provider and offers guidance on where your organization can benefit the most.

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How to get into Virtualization – VirtualizedGeek Tech Talk 24

Virtualized Greek

'I get the question on how to get starting in virtualization. I try to tackle the question in this episode of Tech Talk. I’m sure it will spawn more questions than answers but, that’s good.

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State of Dev/Test Infrastructure Survey

Scott Lowe

'While I was in the Bay Area a couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Navin Thadani and Shruti Bhat of Ravello Systems. Ravello, as you may already know (see this overview from Maish Saidel-Keesing or this post-Toronto VMUG wrap-up from Eric Wright), recently went GA with their technology. It’s pretty cool stuff, if I may say so.

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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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Part II: IBM Server Side Storage I/O SSD Flash Cache Software

Storage IO Blog

'Part II IBM Server Flash Cache Storage I/O accelerator for SSD This is the second in a two-part post series on IBM’s Flash Cache Storage Accelerator (FCSA) for Solid State Device (SSD) storage announced today. You can view part I of the IBM FCSA announcement synopsis here. Some FCSA ssd cache questions and perspectives What […].

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Morphlabs Raises $10 Million to Boost OpenStack in AsiaPac

Data Center Knowledge

'Morphlabs'' $10 million Series D round brings total funding to $22.5 million. The company will use the funding to continue its push of OpenStack in AsiaPac.

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Consumerization Holiday

A Screw's Loose

'Well, it’s almost that time of year again. You know the one. Everyone in IT dreads it. Well, anyone who deals with mobile at least. The rest of the geeks in the IT department and all over the company have already starting asking questions. It’s that grand old holiday that people celebrate by dropping their [.].

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Learning NVP, Part 4: Adding Hypervisors to NVP

Scott Lowe

'This is part 4 of the Learning NVP blog series. Just to quickly recap what’s happened so far, in part 1 I provided the high-level architecture of NVP and discussed the role of the components in broad terms. In part 2 , I focused on the NVP controllers, showing you how to build/configure the NVP controllers and establish a controller cluster. Part 3 focused on NVP Manager, which allowed us to perform a few additional NVP configuration tasks.

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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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Summer 2013 Server and StorageIO Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

'Summer 2013 News letter Welcome to the Summer 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. Welcome to the Summer 2013 (combined July and August) edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics. This summer has been far from quiet on the merger and acquisitions (M&E) front with Western […].

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New Programs Emerge to Train Big Data Scientists

Data Center Knowledge

'As big data gains traction in business, stakeholders like major universities and corporations are investing in programs and facilities to train the next generation of Big Data Scientists.

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Eleven Visualization Tips

Future of CIO

A chart should be a story in itself. Many people develop dashboards/interactive visualizations without having a clear picture of a story or set of stories within the data. A chart should be a story in itself. If you cannot glean the story without the need for further explanation (including extensive labeling), and then the chart is not fulfilling its purpose.

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Announcing Nutanix OS 3.5 – Performance, Manageability and User Centricity for Datacenters, Redefined

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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Learning NVP, Part 3: NVP Manager

Scott Lowe

'Welcome to part 3 of the Learning NVP blog series. In part 1 , I provide an overview of the high-level architecture of NVP and discussed the role of the components in broad terms. In part 2 , I focused on the NVP controllers, showing you how to build/configure the NVP controllers and establish a controller cluster. In this part, I’m going to turn my attention to NVP Manager, which will allow us to further configure NVP.

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Twitter’s New Infrastructure Weathers Massive TweetStorm

Data Center Knowledge

'In an unusual test of Twitter''s infrastructure, Japanese anime fans set an all-time record for Tweets per second earlier this month during the showing of a 27-year-old movie on television. The entire event lasted less than ten seconds, but showcased Twitter''s new and improved back-end.

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Should Enterprise Architects be involved during Project Implementation

Future of CIO

There's always going to be natural tensions between enterprise architecture and solutions/project architecture , there's possibility EA needs to be more interactive in PPM & PM level when necessary. Although EA focuses on conceptual and design level, project implementation is at the more tactical level, the EA team can find itself getting dragged into project issues for sure, often between the technical delivery team and the business stakeholders over requirements & governance issues.

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Lessons from NG-3-1-1 for NG-9-1-1

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'When you are in a life-threatening emergency – a serious car accident or having a heart attack or your house is on fire – what do you do? You call 9-1-1, of course. With the emphasis on CALL, because, with just a few exceptions, there’s no other way to get police or firefighter or emergency medical help except calling on the phone. You can’t text 9-1-1 or send an email to a PSAP or tweet to 9-1-1. 9-1-1 Centers, often called PSAPs or Public Safety Answering Points, have a lot of sophisticated t

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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.