Sat.Sep 14, 2013 - Fri.Sep 20, 2013

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DC Corp Opens Data Center In West Virginia, Going After Fed Business

Data Center Knowledge

'Colocation is beginning to move into smaller markets. DC Corp is opening a data center in West Virginia, a state that hasn''t traditionally been known as a colocation market.

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MACH37: America’s premier market-centric cybersecurity accelerator

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Virginia has long had a very rich innovation ecosystem that includes great universities, a fantastic community which encourages continued innovation, great access to venture capital, tremendous job opportunities in the most technical activities by the US government, and a state that is known for being conducive for business growth. An exemplar for the Commonwealth’s great attitude and strong support of innovation has been the Center for Innovative Technology , long known as

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10 Principles of Self Sevice BI - What Data Scientists Need

Social, Agile and Transformation

'I''m a CIO, but when time permits, I''m also a data scientist and junky. I like to roll up the sleeves and perform data discovery looking for correlations that provide insight and guide decisions. There is an increasing need to identify individuals in the organization with similar skills and goals. In my experience, there are more people in the organization with some analytical. organizational change data scientist enterprise 2.

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5 Tips For CIOs Who Have To Fire Employees

The Accidental Successful CIO

'When the end comes, it’s time for CIOs to fire employees. Image Credit. Because of the importance of information technology some people believe that being a CIO is a glamorous job. However, these people don’t know about all of the complicated personnel related issues that CIOs have to deal with. One such issue is rather unpleasant – the firing of IT department employees.

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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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Google Has Spent $21 Billion on Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Google has invested more than $21 billion in its Internet infrastructure since the company began building its own custom data centers in 2006.

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6 Nov FedCyber Summit: Exchange lessons with peers on the insider threat, big data security, and next generation red teaming

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley This year’s FedCyber summit will be held 6 Nov at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington VA. Every year we bring together a small group of professionals to exchange best practices, discuss the latest threats and to contribute ideas that can help improve the state of cybersecurity in the federal domain. We bring practitioners together to help the community get big things done.

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SCCM: Package not updating on the distribution points

Mick's IT Blog

'You have made changes to your installation package and it does not update on the distribution points, even after validating and redistributing. I ran into this issue and could not figure out why it was doing this. I ended up having to create a new package until I came across the answer in the deployment types tab. The way to make your package update appropriately is to click on the deployment types tab, select the package, and then click Update Content at the top.

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LightEdge Opens Underground Data Center at SubTropolis

Data Center Knowledge

'A new data center in Kansas City is going underground, with support from two high-profile investors. LightEdge Solutions, which is owned by Qwest founder Phil Anschitz, will add a regional data center at SubTropolis, the underground business park operated by the Lamar Hunt family.

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Get The Inside Scoop On DISA Procurements From Kathleen Miller – Director of the Procurement Directorate and Chief of DITCO

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Our Department of Defense (DoD) focused senior analyst Chris Scott has previously provided succinct summaries of the DISA industry day (see DISA Industry Day: Times have changed ). Her reporting extracts information we hope is of use to any technology vendor or systems integrator seeking to serve the DoD or Intelligence Community.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - A Decomposition Storage Model

All Things Distributed

'Traditionally records in a database were stored as such: the data in a row was stored together for easy and fast retrieval. Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives.

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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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Putting the User Back in VMware User Group

Scott Lowe

'As most of you probably know, I visit quite a few VMUG User Conferences around the United States and around the world. I’d probably do even more if my calendar allowed, because it’s truly an honor for me to have the opportunity to help educate the VMware user community. I know I’m not alone in that regard; there are numerous VMware “rock stars” (not that I consider myself a “rock star”) out there who also work tirelessly to support the VMware community.

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Vantage Completes Construction of its First Quincy Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'Vantage Data Centers has completed and delivered the first data center on the Quincy campus to an undisclosed enterprise customer. The facility will support up to 9 megawatts of critical IT load at full capacity, as well as achieve an annualized PUE of 1.3. Quincy, Wash.

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OpenStack is hard but the community is providing training options

Virtualized Greek

'I’m wondering how big a barrier is the difficulty associated with installing and managing OpenStack is to its adoptions. OpenStack obviously has a ton of mind share among Cloud Providers and is gaining some mind share among the enterprise crowd. However there is a big difference in skill set between companies looking to create products around OpenStack as a service and companies looking to run their operations around OpenStack.

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Reflection on Enablement

A Screw's Loose

'It’s not very often that people take the time to look back and reflect. I should do it more often, but I try every year around this time think about those sorts of things. Usually in business things are moving too fast and there is the ever present march forward. The hope is that you [.].

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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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The Three Common Mistakes in Executing Successful Change Management

Future of CIO

Do not be afraid to make fine adjustments as implementation is underway. Changes to behavior at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) require intent. In order to ensure a successful initiative and capture the full intent of the “change,” it is critical to creating strategic alignment around the initiative. Strategic alignment and cascading communication establish a system to overcome the three most common mistakes in Change Management. 1.

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IBM Gives $1 Billion Boost To Linux on Power Systems

Data Center Knowledge

'IBM continues to reinvigorate its line of Power Systems servers, with plans for a $1 billion investment in new Linux and open source technologies for Power Systems.

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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

Cloud Musings

'The call for help began as a rumble. Twenty miles beneath the ocean’s surface, a rupture in a massive. tectonic plate ripped a 310 mile-long break in the sea floor, sending an army of seismic waves to the coast of Japan, a geologic event as. unavoidable and uncontrollable as it was unpredictable. By the time the. earth again stood still and the subsequent tsunami receded from Japanese shores, the enormity of the tragedy was left to see, even as so much of the landscape was wiped clean by the wa

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Rejection Is Opportunity: 25 months from a hard “No” to the launch of Netscape

CTOvision

'By Peter Thorp Editor’s Note: B7 General Partner Peter Thorp was an early employee of Mosaic, the company that became Netscape and started the Internet revolution. I’ve known and respected and learned from Peter for years, and excited to have him share some of his insights with our readers here. This is his account of the launch of Netscape and the 25 months that sat in between its initial rejection and eventual huge success.

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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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EA Methodology vs. EA Framework

Future of CIO

A framework typically bundles a methodology with a meta-model and a bunch of artifact-templates. EA methodology and framework are sometimes being used interchangeably. A framework is a structure, a logical way to classify, segment, categorize, or maintain something, it is a noun. A method is an action, a way of doing something. It would describe a process or set of procedures, activities, and a series of outputs along the way.

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Data Center Customers Warming to Iceland

Data Center Knowledge

'Verne Global''s data center on a former NATO base in Iceland is now filling with customers, and will house a data crunching app from RMS, a new tenant of Datapipe, which is launching an online risk management service for insurance providers.

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The cup has been flipped. (Part III)

Nutanix

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

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The Evolution of as-a-Service Data Center Technologies

Data Center Knowledge

'Data center providers are actively trying to become your one-stop place for all of your compute needs. It makes sense too - The data center market has really heated up as demands around data center services continue to increase. Even now, we have new services ranging from Software-as-a-Service to.

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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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Your Amazon Cloud Just Went Down. Now What?

Data Center Knowledge

'As the digitization of the modern infrastructure continues to grow – there will be even more reliance on the services that both cloud and the data center deliver. However, there is something important to understand about the cloud. Nothing in IT is ever perfect. This includes the cloud.

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Cloud Apps Are Getting Smarter

Data Center Knowledge

'Companies may still be reluctant to move to cloud apps because they don''t want to give up critical predictive functionality that is baked into their core business processes, such as cross-sell, next best activity, or churn management, writes John Ball of KXEN. Lost revenue due to losing cross-sell.

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Sept. 14

Data Center Knowledge

'The Week in Review: Microsoft accelerates its global buildout with new leases, IBM rolls out new NeXtScale servers with new Intel Xeon chips, private equity sees an opportunity in data center maintenance, Virident acquisition signals consolidation at hand for Flash storage markets.

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Free Cooling in Iceland: A Closer Look at the Verne Global Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'Verne Global is taking advantage of the geography of Iceland to operate a data center than is run on 100 percent renewable energy sources, and leverages of the chilly climate in Iceland, located just below the Arctic Circle. Come along as the Data Center Knowledge team takes you on a tour of this.

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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.

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Servers Will Lead the Data Center Evolution

Data Center Knowledge

'While virtualization has helped in increasing hardware utilization, two socket servers remain the most commonly deployed server hardware in the data center, yet offer enterprises little flexibility when it comes to swapping out parts that best suit emerging workloads or giving enterprises the.

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Cutting Big Data Problems Down to Size

Data Center Knowledge

'While all of the terabytes and terabytes data that the world is producing offers the promise of valuable insight, managing its sheer volume, as well as the speed with which it is being created is a tremendous challenge. How can companies turn piles of data into useful information? Jeff Rauscher of.

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The Cloud Job Market Update: SDN and APIs Are Hot

Data Center Knowledge

'The digitization of the modern data center has created the need for even more robust services and control methods. With that, the cloud job market and the demands being placed around today’s cloud architect or engineer must evolve as well.

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Servers on Demand: Custom Water-Cooled Servers in One Hour

Data Center Knowledge

'Hosting company OVH was an unusually early adopter of the build-your-own server model, and now has a server manufacturing facility located inside its extraordinary new data center in Quebec. The company says this allows it to roll out water-cooled servers just one hour after an online order is.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.