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How can such a small file do so much damage?

Dataconomy

ZIP files are often used to reduce the size of files for easier storage or transmission. Then, when there is not enough space for data storage, happens especially in a company that does not do data archiving , the systems become unstable and slow down at first and then completely crash.

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CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

The ability to mash together a bunch of different expensive individual servers and shrink the company’s IT footprint down by a factor of 5x while reducing power and cooling costs at the same time sure seems to be a miracle cure for IT budget problems. No longer will the storage team be able to just focus on storage issues.

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. QEMU, on the other hand, is needed to emulate everything else that a VM needs: networking, storage, USB, keyboard, mouse, etc.

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An Interview with Jesse Proudman

Scott Lowe

For IaaS technology, the trunk is built of essential cloud core services: compute, networking and storage. Integration with existing IT infrastructure ­ businesses have significant investments in existing data center infrastructure: load balancers, IDS/IPS, SAN, database infrastructure, etc. Imagine a true IaaS stack as a tree.

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