CTOvision

AUGUST 21, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias manifesting in unskilled individuals suffering from illusory superiority , mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude (from Wikipedia ). . The phenomenon was first tested in a series of experiments published in 1999 by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of the Department of Psychology, Cornell University.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 20, 2014

'A major fire at a Samsung data center in Gwacheon, South Korea Sunday morning caused a data outage for users Samsung devices, including smart TVs, phones and tablets. Read More.

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SPF13

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

'Not a generic list of programming mistakes, these are the lessons I wish I learned earlier while developing Go. I’ve spent the past two years developing some of the most popular libraries and applications written in Go. I’ve also made a lot of mistakes along the way. Recognizing that “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'I’m sure there are many definitions of a CEO out there. Plenty of people will say the CEO should be a leader, manager, communicator and facilitator. Other’s might say that the CEO is the person most focused on strategy and the ‘future’ of the business. Investopedia defines the CEO as: The highest ranking executive in a company whose main responsibilities include developing and implementing high-level strategies, making major corporate decisions, managing the overall ope

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Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2014

'What is ITIL & how can it benefit your organization? Learn the answers to these questions plus gain an understanding of the ITIL Service Lifecycle in this video. Download a free white paper & learn more about ITIL training at [link] ( This content is being syndicated through multiple channels. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of GovCloud Network, GovCloud Network Partners or any other corporation or organization.) ?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS region in Frankfurt, Germany. This is our 11th infrastructure region and was built to support the strong demand we are seeing in Europe and to give our customers the option to run infrastructure located in Germany. The new Frankfurt region provides low millisecond latencies to major cities in continental Europe and is also run with carbon neutral power.

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CTOvision

MAY 5, 2014

'As a technologist I have long respected Symantec and their many capabilities (they do far more than antivirus, see the list here). But the hottest firms in cyber security, those growing because they make real, measurable, virtuous differences in enterprise security, are growing because they realized that Symantec''s core antivirus features just are not sufficient.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 4, 2014

'By Bob Gourley. This post deals with exciting science that is fun to watch. But it is also a topic which will have significant implications for security professionals and perhaps also for law enforcement and other mission domains. The video at this link and embedded below shows research and results of ways to extract audible sound from a distance from a variety of passive methods.

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Video Analysis Big Data Film 381

Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'Major data breaches make it clear that data security is a serious problem, writes Patrick Quirk of Emerson Network Power. But despite the rash of breaches, there remains an industry-wide naïveté when it comes to these types of security concerns. Read More.

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Network Security Industry Data 279

Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 16, 2014

'In one of the largest colocation deals ever, photo editing and sharing service Shutterfly Inc. is deploying 1,000 cabinets at the SUPERNAP data center campus in Las Vegas. Read More.

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They say a defense can be measured by its weakest link. In your cybersecurity posture, what––or who––is the weakest link? And how can you make them stronger? This webinar will equip you with the resources to search for quality training, implement it, and improve the cyber-behaviors of your workforce. By the end of the hour, you will feel empowered to improve the aspects of your security posture you control the least – the situational awareness and decision-making of your workforce.

Security

Data Center Knowledge

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

'The well-known project converts waste to energy and uses fuel cells. A "cable-cutting" ceremony was held to celebrate the data center independent of the power grid. Read More.

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Data Center Microsoft Data Energy 278

Data Center Knowledge

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'A fire in a warehouse-style facility in Thailand has destroyed hundreds of bitcoin mining rigs, whose value may run into the millions of dollars, according to accounts on foreign press and social networks. Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 27, 2014

'In the ultimate manifestation of the "server hugger" who wants to be close to their equipment, hobbyists and IT professionals have set up data centers in their home, creating server rooms in garages, basements and home offices. Read More.

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Data Center Internet Data 280

Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 5, 2014

'Switch''s SuperNAP 8 data center has now earned Tier IV Gold certification for Operational Sustainability from the Uptime Institute, recognizing its best practices as well as facility design. Read More.

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Data Center Data 279

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Applications

Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 26, 2014

'Columbus Business First has uncovered a massive Amazon project in Central Ohio. Amazon''s hosting subsidiary Vadata has filed for a tax credit in Central Ohio for a project estimated at $1.1 billion. Read More.

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Data Center Data 279

Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

'The data center of the future is the one you don’t own, according to Hector Diaz who will moderate a panel discussion on The Future of the Data Center at Orlando Data Center World. Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 23, 2014

'Data center designers have generally gotten reliability right. except for that rare occasion when a truck runs into a power transformer or a ship drops an anchor onto a submarine cable. Read More.

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Data Center Data 280

Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 28, 2014

'The “software-defined” term, applied as a modifier to data center, networks or storage, is growing in popularity. Software-defined solutions, like virtualization did before them, can allow for a great deal of flexibility and efficiency of shared resources.

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Data Center Software Software Data 279

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Trends

Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 6, 2014

'Google isn''t the first company to use artificial intelligence to fine-tune its server infrastructure. Its work is the latest in a series of initiatives to create an electronic "data center brain" that can analyze IT infrastructure. Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 28, 2014

'Google is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to wring even more efficiency out of its mighty data centers. The humans remain in charge, but Google expects to reach new frontiers in efficiency in its server farms. Read More.

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Data Center Google Artificial Intelligence Data 280

Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 3, 2014

'The company can now run its own network operating system and use its own SDN controller on Open Compute switches by the likes of Broadcom, Mellanox or Big Switch to optimize data delivery. Read More.

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Operating Systems Network System Data 279

Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

'Data center commissioning is important to ensure a mission critical facility can support its workload as anticipated. Chris Crosby, founder and CEO of Compass Datacenters, will present on "Understanding Data Center Commissioning" at the Orlando Data Center World in October. Read More.

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Data Center Data 279

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 11, 2014

'Colocation provider Switch has formed a joint venture to launch an international expansion, teaming with Accelero Capital Holdings and Orascom TMT Investments (OTMTI) to build SUPERNAP data centers around the world.

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Data Center Data 279

Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 18, 2014

'Microsoft is building even bigger in Iowa. The company today unveiled plans to invest a whopping $1.1 billion in a new data center campus in West Des Moines, where it already operates a large server farm. Read More.

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Data Center Microsoft Data Company 279

Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

'KnC Miner is building Bitcoin''s version of the Death Star - a 10 megawatt data center filled with high-powered computers mining for cryptocurrency. The new facility is in Boden, Sweden, just 10 miles down the road from a Facebook data center.

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Data Center Data 279

Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

'SuperNAP 8 in Las Vegas has just become the first multi-tenant data center to earn Tier IV Constructed Facility certification, the highest rating possible under The Uptime Institute''s ratings for mission-critical reliability. Here''s an inside look at SuperNAP 8 and its design innovations.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 27, 2014

'In a dramatic move that illustrates how cloud computing has altered the data center landscape, Microsoft is opening up the server and rack designs that power its vast online platforms and sharing them with the world.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 21, 2014

'Cooling is changing in the data center, and the latest technological advances, while not implemented universally yet, are making headway in specific instances in the data center space. Scot Heath, an engineer with CLEAResult, was asked about the present and future state of cooling in the data.

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 21, 2014

'After getting started in garages and server closets, bitcoin mining is moving into data centers and the cloud. Some traditional data center providers will benefit, but this transition also has the potential to enrich a new generation of entrepreneurs emerging from within the bitcoin community.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 22, 2014

'As data center change continues at a rapid pace, important trends are rising to the fore that will help shape the industry in 2015 and beyond, writes Kevin Leahy of Dimension Data. Read More.

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