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CIOs Deal With Password Lockout Challenges

The Accidental Successful CIO

If you put yourself in the shoes of a system administrator, you need to think about how it would look if you increased the number of permitted tries, and then the system then gets compromised. In most organizations, the system administrator would be held accountable.

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Forget the FUD: VMware NSX and Cisco ACI SDN solutions

Virtualized Greek

VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. Specifically, for the network VMware is not looking to add network virtualization as just another feature of their server virtualization platform. This places VMware and Cisco on a collision course.

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Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack

Virtualized Greek

We are looking at the enterprise that is highly virtualized, which looking at the market means VMware or Hyper-v with or KVM and others to a much lessor extent. So, the “typical” administrator will have strong Windows skills. There was no portal that we see in solutions live vCenter and System Center Operation’s Manager (SCOM).

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Looking beyond linpack: new supercomputing benchmark in the works

Data Center Knowledge

The Linpack will not be laid to rest though – HPCG will serve as a companion ranking of the Top500 list, in a similar fashion to how the Green 500 re-ranks the Top500 according to energy efficiency. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management.