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The future of news: automated, crowdsourced, and better than ever

Trends in the Living Networks

ABC journalist Mark Colvin last week delivered the Andrew Olle Media Lecture , a prestigious annual lecture on journalism. Mark is a Twitter afficionado as well as journalist with over three decades of experience, making him a great choice for the lecture this year. The full transcript of the lecture provides rich stories from the history of journalism in Australia, and an incisive view of the present.

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Using VLANs with OVS and libvirt

Scott Lowe

'In previous posts, I’ve shown you how to use Open vSwitch (OVS) with VLANs through fake bridges , as well as how to wrap libvirt virtual network around OVS fake bridges. Both of these techniques are acceptable for configuring VLANs with OVS, but in this post I want to talk about using VLANs with OVS via a greater level of libvirt integration.

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NJVC Cloud Expert Kevin L. Jackson Launches Second Book: GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services

Cloud Musings

'VIENNA, Va., Nov. 8, 2012— NJVC , an information technology (IT) solutions provider headquartered in northern Virginia, is pleased to announce that Kevin L. Jackson , vice president and general manager, cloud services, launched his second book, GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services —published by Government Training, Inc. This handbook, geared to IT professionals and senior decision makers in both the public and private sectors, explains how the cloud computing. economic model

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Get Your Product Or Service Seen By 500 CIOs Every Week!

The Accidental Successful CIO

'The Accidental Successful CIO Blog receives over 500 visitors every week. Would you like your product or service to be seen by over 500 CIOs and almost-CIOs every week? It turns out that this kind of targeted advertising is actually very easy to do — advertise on The Accidental Successful CIO blog! High quality CIO focused content and a loyal reader base combine to make this blog one of the premier CIO resources on the web today.

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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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Celebrating and reflecting on 10 years of blogging

Trends in the Living Networks

I just realized I missed my 10th anniversary of blogging. My first post on the Trends in Living Networks blog was on October 5, 2002, beginning: The emergence of the “living web”: In just the same way as the networks are coming to life, the language that we use to describe this new world is emerging and evolving. In the last few months, the blogging community has started using the term “living web” to describe the flow of information in the networks.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Using Sysprep to upgrade or replace a failed HDD

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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CIOs Need To Make Sure That Their Skills And Data Centers Are Up To The Task Of Leading (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit CIOs need to have a plan for what to do with their data centers after virtualization hits. Quick question: what is the #1 job of a CIO? Hmm, good question, eh? Although this should really be part of the definition of information technology, I’m pretty sure that we could sit around and debate just exactly what is the #1 job of a CIO all day; however, I’m also pretty sure that we could agree that bringing innovation into the business has to be one of the top jobs of both

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The imperative of designing and building agility in customer service

Trends in the Living Networks

Last week I was involved in two events for cloud-based contact centre application company IPScape , facilitating a media luncheon and hosting a customer event where I did the keynote and moderated a panel of experts. An article in Computerworld titled Companies ‘still grappling’ with basics of customer service: IPscape reviewed some of the content at the events.

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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a highly scalable, reliable and elastic queuing service that just works. Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-case

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Mick's IT Blogs: SCCM Package Doesn't Update

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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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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A Quick Warning About Compiling libvirt

Scott Lowe

'If you’ve been reading my site for any length of time, you know that I’ve been working with libvirt , the open source virtualization API, for a while. As part of my testing with libvirt, I’ve needed to stay on the “cutting edge” of libvirt’s development (so to speak), so I’ve been compiling my own version of libvirt from the source packages available from the libvirt HTTP server.

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Pots of Gold - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Pots of Gold. by Brian Katz on November 8, 2012 · 5 comments. As I was looking through Twitter tonight, I spotted a tweet from Simon Bramfitt where he declared that BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is innovation. While I think I understand where he was coming from, the statement itself is just plain wrong.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using Encryption for - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using Encryption for Authentication. By Werner Vogels on 09 November 2012 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Now that I am enjoying some time in Seattle with real weekends, I like to remind you that my reading list is called back-to-basics.

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OTV vs VXLAN for extending the virtual datacenter

Virtualized Greek

'In an earlier post I talked about VMware using VXLAN as an option for extending the virtual datacenter across physical datacenters. I’ve gotten quite a few questions on how this differs from Cisco’s OTV using Nexus 7K switches. They are actually two different solutions with two different use cases. VXLAN’s primary use in production is to overcome the limitation of 4096 VLAN.

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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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Street Smart on EA: How to Master Five “Things” for Business

Future of CIO

Enterprise architects live at an intellectual smart world, from taxonomy to modeling, from a framework to process, from analysis to synthesis, however, in order not just being perceived as geeks from ivory tower, EA needs to add drops of “street smart” to highlight what need be focused on: 1. The Vision Thing Growth is in our vision -Mike Barnes Vision is about to perceive the future of business, help business see the “remote” thing as if it were closer, and highlight a vivid picture to motivate

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Fountainhead: The End of the Laptop-Centric World?

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, November 5, 2012. The End of the Laptop-Centric World? Is this you: You own multiple laptops or desktop computers because you have different uses, jobs, clients or applications? Doesnt this seem ridiculously inefficient and wasteful - especially because we now in the "cloud era"?

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A Call for Open vSwitch Topics

Scott Lowe

'I’ve been writing quite a bit about Open vSwitch (OVS) , a technology project I think is fairly central to a number of very interesting initiatives. What I wanted to do with this post was pose a question to my readers: what other OVS-related topics would you like me to explore? Here’s a quick rundown of what I’ve written about OVS so far: Installing KVM and Open vSwitch on Ubuntu.

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Corporate Culture Re-inventing: Is Hybrid Model the Best?

Future of CIO

Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another. - Geert Hofstede Culture is the most invisible, but powerful fabric weaved around the organization and surrounding in our society as well, the culture like water, can make enterprise ship float, push it in the right direction, it may also drag down the ship, even sink it.

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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.