Sat.Jan 03, 2015 - Fri.Jan 09, 2015

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Intel’s Presentation at CES: The Future is Here

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Intel was a keynote at CES 2015. This video gives you a glance into the future. Technology is reaching a point where very little human interaction is needed. No longer will you need to find your keys to get into your house, or physically touch your computer to give it commands. Watch The Verge video of Intel’s Keynote here. Related articles.

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Amazon Data Center Project in Virginia Stumbles Over Power Line Opposition

Data Center Knowledge

'Residents oppose construction of electrical substation, transmission line necessary to power 500,000 square foot data center Read More.

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CIO's Five Predictions for 2015

Social, Agile and Transformation

'It''s that time of year when the analysts and media predict the year to come in technology. If you missed some of these prediction, see Gil Press'' recap of Forrester''s, Gartner''s and IDC''s predictions. This year, I thought I would take a stab at some predictions and what may be important to CIOs in 2015. I''m not talking IoT everywhere, even bigger Big Data, and other big or bold predictions -.

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Fixing the “Malfunctions” of the CIO

Eric D. Brown

'I just read “ The Four Malfunctions of a CIO ” by Joe Scherrer and wanted to expand a but on what Joe writes about. Before I do that, let me share the ‘four malfunctions’ that Joe highlights. They are: Not knowing yourself. Not communicating well. Inability to communicate the business value of IT. Not being organized. These are definite malfunctions but they are ‘fixable’ Joe provides some good advice on how to go about resolving these particular malfuncti

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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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Join World Renowned Big Data Cyber Security Architect Eddie Garcia at 27 Jan Breakfast

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Eddie Garcia is regarded as one of the nation''s greatest Big Data security architects. At Gazzang he led engineering teams through successful fielding of secure hadoop deployments where security was provided without sacrificing performance. Now a security engineer with Cloudera, Eddie continues to work directly with clients from enterprises across multiple sectors of the economy.

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Certainties in 2015: Death, Taxes and the New World of IoT

Data Center Knowledge

'Gartner predicts that there will be 25 billion connected “things” by 2020, writes Robert Haynes of F5 Networks. Vulnerabilities in devices will exist, patches will need to be pushed out. How will your infrastructure cope? Read More.

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Convergence: The Catalyst to Transform Scientific Research

Cloud Musings

'by Melvin Greer Greer Institute for Leadership and Innovation A new transformative research approach is gaining global attention and adoption. The scientific opportunities enabled by convergence—the coming together of insights and approaches from originally distinct fields—will make fundamental contributions in our drive to provide creative solutions to the most difficult problems facing us as a society.

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New O’Reilly EBook: Field Guide To Hadoop

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. A new free E-book has just been released we believe will be of interest to a majority of our readers titled: The Field Guide to Hadoop. This book is recommended for IT managers, developers, data analysts, system architects, and strategists who are faced with having to replace current systems and skills with the new set required by NoSQL and Hadoop, or those who want to deepen their understanding of complementary technologies and databases.

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2014: The Year of Infrastructure Vulnerability

Data Center Knowledge

'Heartbleed, Shellshock and WinShock ripped through the very fabric of the Internet in 2014, writes David Holmes of F5 Networks. What can be learned from these massive infrastructure security vulnerabilities? Read More.

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Using Twitter Sentiment for Market Decisions

Eric D. Brown

'This is a repost from TradeTheSentiment.com. In October 2014, I successfully defended my dissertation titled “Analysis of Twitter Messages for Sentiment and Insight for use in Stock Market Decision Making.” This dissertation was the final step in earning more D.Sc. in Information Systems. In my dissertation, I reported on my research into using natural language processing (NLP) to perform sentiment analysis on Twitter messages.

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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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Federal Cloud Computing Summit on January 14-15, Washington, DC

Cloud Musings

'The Federal Cloud Computing Summit will be held on January 14-15, 2015 at the Marriott Metro Center in Washington, D.C. ( Complimentary government and academic registration ) This educational symposium will feature cloud computing thought leaders from government and academia discussing topics such as Cloud Strategy from the CXO Perspective ; Navigating the Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap ; Cloud Success Stories ; and Cloud in 2020.

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Parrot RNB6: Turning an Old Car into a Smart Car

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. The video below is brought to you by The Verge , a Vox media property that seeks to examine the intersection of technology, science, art and culture. The video was produced at CES2015. It highlights a new device by Parrot called RNB6. It is an after market device that can go in 90% of cars, making any car into smart car. Watch The Verge video here or embedded below: Cars are just giant gadgets on the road, says Verge.

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5 CIO Trends Driving DCIM Adoption

Data Center Knowledge

'Data center infrastructure management solutions have been around for more than a decade, writes Mark Gaydos of Nlyte Software. However, its adoption has increased rapidly in recent years due to five worldwide trends. Read More.

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How The Orange County CTO Solved Its IT Problem

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Orange County’s IT department had a problem because nobody knew what they did Image Credit: Orange County Archives. Joel Manfredo was the CTO of Orange County, California a while ago. When he first came into office, he discovered what most CIOs discover when they start their job: he had a lot of problems on his hands that had nothing to do with the importance of information technology.

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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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CONGRATULATIONS! Inaugural Cloud Computing Class at Mira Costa College Graduates!!

Cloud Musings

'Anthony Dorrah, Jose Chapman, Mike Chatelain, Lisa Heiden, Ginelle Johnson, Robert Minson, Alfredo Morales We are so proud of the success of out first cloud computing training class. This group took the challenge of changing their careers, studying hard and focusing their efforts in order to reap the rewards! We are ecstatic over there accomplishment of :'' 100% PASS RATE ON COMPTIA CLOUD ESSENTIALS EXAM!!!

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Technology News and Hot Topics

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Here are some of the technology stories we are tracking: Ulrich Beck, Sociologist Who Warned of Dangers of Technology , Is Dead at 70. Mr. Beck shot to national and international fame in 1986 after the publication of his book “Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity,” which argued that one of man''s proudest achievements, technology, had also created new risks in spheres ranging from .

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Containment Best Practices: Tips for Maximizing Capacity and Cost Savings

Data Center Knowledge

'There are a variety of best practices that must be implemented in conjunction with the installation of any containment solution in order to reap the full benefits, writes Lars Strong of Upsite Technologies. Read More.

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Server storage I/O Intel NUC nick knack notes – First impressions

Storage IO Blog

'The NUC has been around new for a few years and continues to evolve and recently I bought my first one (e.g. a 4th generation model) to join some other servers that I have. My reason for getting a NUC is to use it as a simple low-power platform to run different software on including bare-metal OS, hypervisors, cloud, virtual and software defined server storage and networking applications on that might otherwise be on an old laptop or mini-tower.

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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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Converting URLs to Jekyll References

Scott Lowe

'In my post about the story behind the migration , I mentioned that I made extensive use of regular expressions (“regexes”) to help reformat portions of the Markdown documents that are used by Jekyll to build this site. In this post, I wanted to briefly share one of the regexes I used (and am still using) to convert URLs to Jekyll references. First, let me clarify what I mean by Jekyll references.

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Painting with Light: Energized paint glows with current

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. What if you could actually paint with light? A company called LumiLor has created a paint that when energized with an electric current glows. Imagine the possibilities, having cars glow in conditions where they otherwise would not be visible, or have illuminated military equipment (like tanks!) blend into surrounding conditions, as well as using their light to guide their way.

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How the Network Now Defines the Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'Learn the three key areas of a next-gen data center network: the data center interconnect, cloud connectivity, and building cloud?aware networks. Read More.

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Server storage I/O Intel NUC nick knack notes – Second impressions

Storage IO Blog

'This is the second of a two-part series about my first and second impressions of the Intel NUC (Next Unit Computing). In the first post (here) I give an overview and my first impressions while in this post lets look at options added to my NUC model 54250, first deployment use and more impressions.

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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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Blog Migration Complete

Scott Lowe

'The blog migration is finally complete! It’s taken quite a while, but I’ve finally managed to migrate the over 1,600 posts from my original WordPress installation over to Jekyll hosted on GitHub Pages. I’ll have another post later that goes into more detail on the process that I followed (and why) as well as some of the tools that I used in the migration.

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Announcing People + Data Digest !

CTOvision

'By Kord Davis. Our world is awash in data and information about it. And the impact to our individual lives is increasing every day. Data breaches impact our financial security, personal privacy, and reputations, innovations in data services are being developed continuously, and our laws, culture, and social interactions are being drastically impacted as a result.

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Social Year in Review: The 10 Most Shared Data Center Stories of 2014

Data Center Knowledge

'Here''s a look at the 10 most shared articles on Data Center Knowledge during 2014. Enjoy! Read More.

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A Synthetic Mind

Future of CIO

A synthetic mind is future-oriented, holistic, focuses on long-term problem solving, without ignorance of emergent trends. Digital world is complex and ambiguous, though analytics is always important to break down the big problems/projects into small blocks, and conquer them piece by piece; however, given the real-world complexity and abundance of information, you will never have time to digest every piece of information or analyze every detail; you don’t have time to learn everything as well.

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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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Technology Short Take #47

Scott Lowe

'Welcome to Technology Short Take #47! This is the first Technology Short Take for 2015 and the first to be published on the new blog platform. I have quite a bit of information to share this time around, so buckle up and let’s get started! Networking. Michael Webster isn’t a name that normally pops up here in the Networking section of my Technology Short Takes, but he recently wrote an article on installing Cumulus Linux from a MacBook Pro that I thought might be handy.

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Highlights from the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. The video below is provided by CNET and covers various electronics at the Consumer Electronics Show. It is an early highlights review, but had enough interesting foreshadowing we wanted to bring it to your attention. CNET’s Donald Bell and Bridget Carey run through the show highlights. Watch the CNET video here. Related articles.

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Understanding the Benefits of Dynamic Cooling Optimization

Data Center Knowledge

'Cooling systems consume 34 percent of the power used by a data center. It''s time to look at and understand the benefits of dynamic cooling optimization. Read More.

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Innovation vs. Invention

Future of CIO

Innovation = f(Invention, Commercialization). Innovation comes from the Latin, "Innovare" - 'to change or alter things that already exist'. The invention, on the other hand, has its roots in the Latin word "Novare," 'to make new / create.' The difference between innovation and creativity is implementation. One of the good definitions of innovation is: "to transform the novel ideas into commercially successful products & achieving its business values.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.