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Microsoft reaches a key milestone in its quest to build a quantum supercomputer

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This Microsoft illustration depicts a future quantum supercomputer operating in an Azure data center. Nadella as far back in 2017 was identifying quantum computing, virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence as the three technologies he believed at the time were most likely to shape the future.

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Fountainhead: What's your "data center complexity factor"?

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Whats your "data center complexity factor"? Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Virtualization. (31). What's your "data center complexity factor"? Data Center Design.

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Fountainhead: IT's Blind Spots in the data center

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. ITs Blind Spots in the data center. More from Egenera was published today in the Wall Street Journals MarketWatch website. Virtualization does not equal agility. But the reality is that not everything gets virtualized.

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Fountainhead: A Tour of Switch's SuperNAP

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. and only 20% of data centers scoring better than 2.0 according to a Digital Realty Trust survey reported by the Data Center Journal. Traditional data centers take a "diffusive" approach to cooling equipment.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Virtualization: The Next Logical Step

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Infrastructure Virtualization: The Next Logical Step. 2010 will be an interesting year for virtualization - but not from the perspective youre probably thinking. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure 2.0 ? A Virtual Analogy

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Infrastructure 2.0 – A Virtual Analogy. Is OS virtualization an end in itself? To a degree, OS virtualization is the “shiny metal object” de jure in that it’s captivating everyone’s attention.

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Fountainhead: A data center trifecta? (Prediction)

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A data center trifecta? It also simplifies automated management and portability of workloads, such as with virtual appliances / AMIs. And #3 is how the actual software (physical, virtual, appliances, AMIs, etc.)