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The Legal Challenges of the Internet of Things

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Rick Delgado. These days, just about everything and every organization collects data. Even refrigerators collect information on temperature, usage, etc. Employers do on just about anything they can; some are in fact requiring employees to wear health trackers that monitor heart rate and other metrics. From cars to medical devices, personal data is everywhere.

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Ask These Five Questions for Data Protection Peace of Mind

Data Center Knowledge

Ensuring that decentralized data is backed up in case of breach or disaster is a major cause of anxiety for both business executives and senior IT professionals. Read More.

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Does It Make Sense To Grade Your IT Employees?

The Accidental Successful CIO

How do IT workers feel when they get graded? Image Credit: Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL). As the person with the CIO job, it’s your responsibility to stay on top of the quality of the employees that you have working in your IT department. In most IT departments this means that at least once a year you will have everyone engage in an evaluation process.

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What is a Digital "Big Idea"?

Social, Agile and Transformation

Do you remember this classic scene from the movie Big? Do you remember Josh sitting in a product review meeting and asking the tough question - "I don't get it. Well what's fun about that?" I love this clip because it illustrates all the complexities of developing products that are both innovative and that customers love. The Product Manager can get it all wrong even when armed.

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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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How Important Is “Perfect Data” To Data Analytics Programs?

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Dennis D. McDonald. Back in 2014 I published a guest post on the Open Data Institute's web site titled How important is the quality of open data? Here's a quote from that piece: Setting aside for the moment how we define “quality”. database managers have always had to concern themselves with standards, data cleaning, corrections, and manual versus automated approaches to data quality control.

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The Life Cycle of a Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

Just as with a human being, the individual care and love you show your data center can lengthen the life of your partnership Read More.

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Skyport eases the pain of deploying and securing remote servers

Network World

Skyport does one thing, and it does it well. Skyport offers SkySecure Server, a remotely deployable platform for Windows and/or Linux virtual machines in a fortress-like environment. You can rent one for $2,500 per month, or less. Skyport SkySecure Servers solve a major pain point for IT execs looking for control over their remote servers. Skyport provides a hardened server that can be safely deployed to off-premises locations with little to no pre-configuration headaches.

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Hortonworks New Distribution Strategy and New Streaming Analytics

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Katie Kennedy. This week, Hortonworks announced a comprehensive strategy with new product advancements across its Connected Data Platforms, including Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP™), and Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF™). This announcement encompassed a new distribution approach for Apache™ Hadoop ® with the latest release of HDP 2.4, which includes the latest generation of Apache Spark 1.6, as well as the announcement of HDF 1.2.

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ASHRAE Strikes PUE from Data Center Efficiency Standard Draft

Data Center Knowledge

Standard 90.4, currently under development, no longer relies on PUE to determine efficiency Read More.

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Running an Innovative IT with Creative Mechanism

Future of CIO

Innovation is how to transform novel ideas to achieve its business value. IT Management is a strange animal, in that the capabilities are there, the data is there - but the motivations are often confused. Technology drives changes nowadays, but IT is often considered the function slower to change with “controlling mentality.” IT tends to measure itself against trivial things IT considers important but are often less important and impactful in the business lens.

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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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Review: 5 application security testing tools compared

Network World

Application security is arguably the biggest cyber threat , responsible for 90 percent of security incidents, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Yet it suffers from not-my-job syndrome, or, as SANS put it in its 2015 State of Application Security report, "Many information security engineers don’t understand software development — and most software developers don’t understand security.

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Dynamic Datacenter with Bright Computing

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Katie Kennedy. The video below if from the 2016 Stanford HPC Conference. Robert Stober, the Director of Systems Engineering for Bright Computing, presents Advanced Cluster Management using Bright Cluster Manager. Stober addresses: high performance computing, bursting into the public cloud, adding big data clusters, adding OpenStack, adding "bare metal private cloud", and putting it all together.

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Allocating Storage to VMs and Extending to Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

As your organization grows, find out how to properly manage your storage requirements and how to extend into the cloud Read More.

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Digital Innovation Premium

Future of CIO

Digital means flow, there is more flow of creative ideas, the better opportunities to reap the benefit from innovation management. Many say digital is the age of innovation. With the increasing speed of changes and hyper-fierce competitions, at present days, innovation is the “Must Have” element of the business strategy if the organization wants to stay competitive on the market.

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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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Are you taking control of your data or is it controlling you?

Dataconomy

In spite of the fact that the term “360-degree view of the customer” has become ubiquitous in the data management and CRM realm for quite some time, it is still quite rare to find a company that has achieved it. The same problems that have plagued companies for years, blocking. The post Are you taking control of your data or is it controlling you? appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Tech News Roundup March 4

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Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Barnes & Noble closes Nook e-book store in UK as overall sales continue to fall. NASA to Provide Live Coverage, Interviews, and Social Media for March 8 Solar Eclipse. SAVE THE DATE: NVTC’s Titans Breakfast with Adobe President and CEO Shantanu Narayen Scheduled.

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Three Storage Trends Shaking Up the Enterprise

Data Center Knowledge

As storage becomes a larger and larger aspect of an overall IT environment, companies are beginning to not only understand, but witness firsthand the expense of the integrated system model. Read More.

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Server StorageIO February 2016 Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

Even with an extra day during the month of February, there was a lot going on in a short amount of time. This included industry activity from servers to storage and I/O networking, hardware, software, services, mergers and acquisitions for cloud, virtual, containers and legacy environments. Check out the sampling of some of the various industry activities below.

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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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What kind of industries will expand their use of fast data in 2016?

Dataconomy

Organizations are being driven to be sophisticated in their use of data, and specifically in acting on fast data, to make critical business decisions. Fast data is data in motion, not data at rest (that is, stored for longer-term analysis). Studies have shown that data has the greatest value immediately. The post What kind of industries will expand their use of fast data in 2016?

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Tech News Roundup March 2

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Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Myanmar president asks next government to develop agriculture - New Kerala. Thumbs up! NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth after a year in space. NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns Safely to Earth after One-Year Mission. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly touches down in Kazakhstan after a year in space.

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Are Security Data Breaches Hastening a Shift to the Cloud?

Data Center Knowledge

It is imperative that organizations perform their due diligence when selecting the right security-focused cloud services partners. Read More.

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EMC DSSD D5 Rack Scale Direct Attached Shared SSD All Flash Array Part I

Storage IO Blog

EMC announced today the general availability of their DSSD D5 Shared Direct Attached SSD (DAS) flash storage system (e.g. All Flash Array or AFA) which is a rack-scale solution. If you recall, EMC acquired DSSD back in 2014 which you can read more about here. EMC announced four configurations that include 36TB, 72TB and 144TB raw flash SSD capacity with support for up to 48 dual-ported host client servers.

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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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Running IT as a Business Optimizer

Future of CIO

The Role of IT today for many organizations is a ' solutionary'' for business problems, an optimizer for business processes and capabilities, and an orchestrator for the digital transformation. IT is the spinal cord for the organization, integrating various functional capabilities to bring out technology-enabled business solutions, motivating the IT team to constantly deliver multidimensional IT values.

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Visualizing Information Most Important with Job-Based Metrics

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Katie Kennedy. Most HPC users care more about health and resources usage of a specific job than the device they run on. That is why Bright added job-based metrics to their Bright Cluster Manager solutions. Users can now select a job that is currently running (or has recently run) and get metrics for both nodes and jobs. For example, they can plot memory consumption for a particular job.

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Big Round of Layoffs at IBM’s Tech Services Division

Data Center Knowledge

Analyst says most cuts likely being made to jobs that can be outsourced overseas, such as sys admins and storage managers Read More.

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Part II – EMC DSSD D5 Direct Attached Shared AFA

Storage IO Blog

Up to 48 Linux servers attach via dual port PCIe Gen 3 x8 cards that are stateless. Stateless simply means they do not have any flash or are not being used as storage cards, rather, they are essentially just an NVMe adapter card. With the first release block, HDFS file along with object and APIs are available for Linux systems. These drivers enabling the shared NVMe storage to be accessed by applications using different streamlined server and storage I/O driver software stacks to cut latency.

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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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The Digital CIO’s Hard Core Leadership Competency

Future of CIO

Although IT has become “softer” because it shifts from monolithic hardware oriented to mosaic information-driven, the CIO as IT leader needs to demonstrate more hardcore competencies beyond just soft skills only. Often the management gurus put a lot of emphasis on the soft skills of leaders, such as listening, communication, facilitation, etc. it is indeed critical, however, for top-level leaders such as CIOs, the hardcore knowledge and competency is crucial as well to make profound leadership i

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Bitlocker Access is Denied

Mick's IT Blog

We recently started getting access is denied when trying to enable bitlocker on our Dell Latitude E7440 models. At first we thought it was a problem with the laptop itself upon the first occurrence of it. We were able to image all other models with no problems. We contacted Dell Premiere support and they concurred. They said that replacing the motherboard should rectify the issue since the issue seemed to be with the TPM chip.

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White House Orders Federal Data Center Construction Freeze

Data Center Knowledge

New data center optimization initiative seeks higher efficiency, aggressive cost savings Read More.

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Federal Agencies Now Have Access to Cloud Engineering and Execution Services Via Pre-Competed GWAC

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Katie Kennedy. For many agencies, the question is not whether to move to a cloud environment, but how to move to a cloud environment in an efficient, cost-effective manner with little disruption to services and capabilities. When moving to a cloud environment, agencies must answer the following questions: Which cloud environment is appropriate? Is my program, platform, capability ready, or able, to move to the cloud?

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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.