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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Thus, these services will begin to commoditize, and with the popularity of multicloud, core services such as storage and computing will be pretty much the same from cloud to cloud.” Early adopters of industry clouds were healthcare, banking, and tech companies, but that has expanded to energy, manufacturing, public sector, and media.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. Who would have thought that one day you’d refer to a Microsoft web site for instructions on configuring something in Linux? Ben Corrie shares some of his thoughts about the recent GA of vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC).

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Technology Short Take #70

Scott Lowe

What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? It seems to me that the ever-increasing application of persistent storage technologies in lots of difference places is going to change lots and lots of things. Is the era of the storage admin over ? Virtualization. Version 2.0 Have you checked out vSphere DSC yet?

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Geek of the Week: Vulcan’s W. Andre Perkins uses machine learning to help predict climate change

GeekWire

In my many friends and colleagues who pour their energy into creating a better future for everyone. Mac, Windows or Linux? Windows on my home computer for my entire life (near necessity for most games) and I usually connect to Linux workstations or VMs for research/development work. Where do you find your inspiration?

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Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions.

Data Center Knowledge

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. Networking.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Networking.

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Host Europe Acquired for $667 Million » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. I know that the company Linux Hosts Ltd. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Energy Efficiency Guide. Barbara Johnson.