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Datacentre systems management

Ahead in the Clouds

Datacentre managers on how to address the shortage of women and young people entering the industry
Caroline Donnelly Senior Editor, UK 27 Jun 2017

Anglia Ruskin University invited Ahead in the Clouds along to their recent boot camp to lead a two-way discussion with its Datacentre Leadership and Management students about how to address the ...
Open Source Insider

Splicing data machinery -- what is scale-out data processing, really?
Adrian Bridgwater 21 Jul 2016

Splice Machine is an open source RDBMS (relational database management system) powered by Hadoop and Spark. The firm’s latest product updates paint something of an interesting picture in terms of ...
Ahead in the Clouds

Datacentre management: Taking a Rubik’s Cube approach to hypervisor fine-tuning
Caroline Donnelly Senior Editor, UK 20 Jun 2016

In this guest post, Frank Denneman, Chief Technologist at PernixData, advises operators to apply Rubik Cube-solving strategies to datacentre management problems. When attempting to solve a Rubik’s ...

AI bots: How GE is adapting traditional management to AI

To get a handle on its AI strategy, GE is making AI more human: It's creating AI bots and assigning them to managers. Challenges ...

Should your company hire a chief AI officer?

Aramark's newly appointed chief AI officer, along with senior IT leaders from Kohl's, eBay and Square, make the case for an AI ...

21st-century CIO job description puts CIOs in vortex of emerging tech

The ban against pursuing tech for tech's sake -- it's been lifted. CIOs need to dive into emerging tech to extract its business ...

SearchSecurity

Dunkin' security alert warns of new credential-stuffing attacks

Dunkin' sent a security alert to customers warning of potentially malicious access of accounts due to the second credential ...

Senators want potential VPN threat investigated by DHS

Two senators called on the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the possibility that VPNs are allowing valuable ...

MongoDB security head addresses database exposures

Davi Ottenheimer, MongoDB's head of product security, discusses his company's efforts to prevent accidental database exposures ...

SearchNetworking

SnapRoute cloud NOS leans on Kubernetes for orchestration

SnapRoute has introduced a network operating system for cloud environments. The cloud NOS, called Cloud Native Network OS, uses ...

Netsurion intros low-maintenance SD-branch

Netsurion has introduced a software-defined branch product for retailers, hotels and restaurants. The managed SD-branch, called ...

How SD-WAN architectures improve network flexibility and efficiency

The key benefits of SD-WAN architectures include better network redundancy, efficient MPLS connections and added flexibility to ...

SearchDataCenter

How to prepare your data center for an HCI appliance

Vendors tout hyper-converged infrastructure as a plug-and-play offering, but before you install anything in your data center, be ...

Hone these top 5 data center skills in 2019

As data centers become more software-based, admins should prepare themselves by learning about the cloud, containers, DevOps and ...

Carbon Relay debuts AI-based software for data center cooling

Newcomer Carbon Relay has introduced two products that use artificial intelligence to help IT pros manage data center efficiency.

SearchDataManagement

5 best practices for managing real-time data integration

Real-time data integration isn't like traditional data integration -- "it's moving, it's dirty and it's temporal," cautions one ...

Web integration platform eases way to machine learning models

StoryFit data scientists employ machine learning algorithms to gauge film script scenarios' prospects. They use Import.io tools ...

Open source cloud databases battle software 'strip mining'

Cloud giants like AWS have adopted open source databases, causing Confluent, MongoDB and others to guard their assets the best ...