Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2009

These include budgets, staffing of IT units, disaster recovery, “big” projects, travel and training. Steve Ferguson, the new CIO in San Jose , reports that City has experienced nine straight years of cuts and reductions, starting with the dot-com bust which hit Silicon Valley in 2001.

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Disaster Recovery Budget Government Trends 28

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2008

The City of Seattle has multiple data centers, but our main one, constructed in 2001, has well over $15 million of stuff in it. I guess it’s time to test that disaster recovery plan again! Halloween seems like a perfect time to confront a few of our most frightful fears, and here are a few of mine. Or Fire followed by Water.

Disaster Recovery 31

Disaster Recovery Data Center Budget Financial 31

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

One Wilshire is a key meeting place for the world’s communication networks, serving as one of the busiest intersections in global Internet and telecom traffic. “One Wilshire is one of the preeminent West Coast network facilities,” said Michael Wong, Vice President of GI Partners. Networking. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Real Estate Data Storage 205

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

In the early eras of PCs, a number of new technologies arose: in particular there was the IP network, that allowed the CPU to talk to others, and external/networked storage, that externalized (or removed) the dedicated hard drive. Changes to the network or storage meant changing I/O configurations. An alternative model.

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Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100