Mick's IT Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

This script will initiate a hardware inventory. It scans the InventoryAgent.log file for the initiation of the hardware inventory and then for the completion. The purpose of this is to verify a hardware inventory was actually initiated. I have had instances where I would execute a hardware inventory multiple times not knowing if it actually occurred. The script will return an error code 1 if the initiation was ignored or it exceeded five minutes.

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Hardware 141

Cloud Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

Hardware matters. Intel’s Sarah Wieskus joins The End Point Imperative: A Podcast series from Intel to discuss the importance of stable, optimized hardware in today’s digital world. The topic for this episode is "In A Software World Hardware Does Matter."

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Computer Weekly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Financial regulator launches probe after hardware failure in main database led to problems for stock exchange market system

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Hardware Financial System 184

Computer Weekly

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Technology Business Research report sheds light on the impact that cloud, virtualisation and hyper-convergence are having on traditional datacentre hardware revenues

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Hardware Research Report Cloud 186

Computer Weekly

JANUARY 9, 2018

Chip maker is reportedly planning to form a new group to focus on hardware security as it scrambles to limit the impact of recently discovered security flaws in chip designs

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Hardware Groups Intel Report 154

Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 11, 2015

US financial services giants shifting to open hardware approach pioneered by internet giants Read More. Blades Enterprise Featured Open Compute

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Computer Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2018

Private cloud makes consumption of storage easier for the user and simplifies delivery for the IT department. We walk through the key components and the platform choices

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Hardware Storage Cloud 135

The Investing Edge

JANUARY 22, 2015

From the 19 th century Connecticut Yankee to the 20 th century Route 128 Technology Highway, the region has a 200 year tradition of academic leadership, mechanical, materials and electrical genius, and hardware excellence.

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Engineering Hardware Chemicals Course 141

Computer Weekly

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Microsoft wants to give open source datacentre hardware developers earlier access to its designs to speed up the time it takes to bring new products to market with Project Olympus

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Open Source Hardware Development Microsoft 196

Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 28, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking giant is the world’s biggest open source hardware design factory Read More. Blades Cooling Data Center Design Facebook Featured Networking Open Compute Power Storage

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Open Source Hardware Data Center Social 206

Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 15, 2017

If you’re running a cloud platform at Microsoft’s scale (30-plus regions around the world, with multiple data centers per region) and you want it to run on the best data center hardware, you typically design it yourself.

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Open Source Hardware Meeting Data Center 247

Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Big Sur server spreads neural network training across eight Nvidia Tesla GPUs Read More. Blades Facebook Featured HPC Open Compute

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Open Source Hardware Training Network 198

IT Toolbox

APRIL 6, 2017

One Georgia-based VoIP devices manufacturer has devised a smart way of integrating many of its hardware options into a full communications system. Dubbed Diet PBX by Wahsega Laboratories, it is an advanced paging IP PBX hardware appliance that enables customers to easily create a full VoIP communicationThe new system has also been configured to work with third party SIP-compliant devices.

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Hardware VOIP System 100

IT Toolbox

MARCH 28, 2017

VirtualPBX is expected to launch what is being called “a massive product release” at the beginning of next month, marking its first foray into the VoIP hardware options space. “Because we’ve been in the position of being an impartial provider of hardware for almost 20 years alongside

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Hardware VOIP 100

Data Center Knowledge

MAY 19, 2016

Optimistic forecast indicates strategic focus on software to compensate for slumping hardware sales is paying off Read More. Cisco Networking Technology

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Hardware Software Software Network 151

IT Toolbox

MAY 16, 2017

When a host leaves a host group, it calls procedure hgarpdel to remove the ARP cache entry and inform the hardware

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2016

Can Open19 take hold given OCP’s wide support, including by Microsoft? Read More. Blades Data Center Design Data Center Strategies Infrastructure LinkedIn Open Compute Racks and Enclosures

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Hardware Data Center Microsoft Data 145

IT Toolbox

MARCH 20, 2017

The concept of an overarching connectivity architecture such as SAA was one approach to managing these compromises. One clearly evident (if not explicitly stated) IBM strategy in managing outside competition was to coopt popular technology

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LAN Hardware IBM Architecture 122

Computer Weekly

MARCH 23, 2017

The use of ODM datacentre hardware makes good economic sense for the hyperscale providers, but what about everyday enterprises

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Hardware Enterprise Enterprise 111

IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Its hardware is now in the fifth generation and millions of clients have downloaded and make use of its apps. MagicJack – the name conjures up the early Wild West days of VoIP. Regarded as the broadest-reaching competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) in the US, it has sold more than 11 million of its magicJack VoIP devices. Yet magicJack has just been sold for a 23% premium over its 90-day

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Hardware VOIP 109

Computer Weekly

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Synergy Research Group lifts the lid on how the growth of hyperscale datacentre operators is developing around the world, as well as the impact this is having on demand for hardware from legacy IT suppliers

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Hardware Research Groups Development 132

Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 9, 2017

Company touts its infrastructure might as it fights for enterprise cloud market share Read More. Cloud Computing Data Center Strategies Featured Google

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Hardware Google Data Center Enterprise 170

Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 28, 2014

Data center provider IO has entered the cloud computing market with IO.Cloud, a new platform running on Open Stack software and Open Compute hardware.

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Hardware Data Center Software Software 195

IT Toolbox

JULY 31, 2016

Starting at the Data Link layer, ARCNET, IEEE 802, or Ethernet LANs have been frequently implemented for network access

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Chuck's Blog - EMC

APRIL 29, 2014

While many of us are enamored by the vision of a software-defined data center (SDDC), we also know that hardware will still be a very important consideration: how much, how efficient, how fast, etc. Hardware Matters. I can think of a few by myself :)  Software Shapes Hardware.

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Hardware Software Software Storage 151

Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Microsoft releases hardware specs for Azure Stack in anticipation of preview release Read More. Blades Cloud Computing Microsoft

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Hardware Data Center Cloud Microsoft 191

Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 20, 2014

Hardware infrastructure developers will have to cope with commoditization, either by recalibrating their efforts toward commoditization, or by forging partnerships with other data center ecosystem contributors, writes Jake Iskhakov of ServerLIFT. Industry Perspectives

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Hardware Data Center Development Data 108

David Linthicum

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The trend is clear: The more public cloud services that are sold, the more traditional enterprise hardware and software vendors shrink. I''ve been making this accretion prediction for years. However, until recently, it''s not been readily apparent. Now it is. read more. Cloud Computing The Industry Standard Cloud computing

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Hardware Software Software Enterprise 143

Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 24, 2017

Oracle and other tech giants are refocusing on cloud services as hardware revenues decline Read More. Shared

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Hardware Oracle System Cloud 103

Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Business users think IT is there to say “no,” and it’s IT’s job to change that Read More. Cloud Computing Data Center Strategies Enterprise Featured

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Hardware Software Software Data Center 140

IT Toolbox

JULY 30, 2016

For networks with multiple layers of hubs, the OUT port on one hub connects to an IN port of the higher-layer hub

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Hardware Network 122

Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Cloud infrastructure spending grew 16 percent year over year Read More. Blades Cloud Computing Networking Storage

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Hardware Report Cloud Storage 117

Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 10, 2015

Becomes official Open Compute Project member after being involved ‘quietly’ for years Read More. Apple Facebook Open Compute

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Apple Hardware 156