• Tag Archives: IT

    • The Church of Production

      Posted by Jonathan Hudson on 2/16/2012
      Source: NewAdvent.org with edits by EthernetFabric.com

      It’s 4am, on Saturday. You got in at 2am after sleeping for a lovely 1.5hrs. Monitor glow on your face, your jaw tightening up for a nice big yawn as you are pouring through logs.

      What changed? When was the last reboot? What versions are running? Does anyone in engineering have root access? What patches have been applied? What happened right before the downtime? Have we seen this before…..? Continue reading →

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    • Calling All Candidates: Here’s The Jobs Network

      Posted by zenogroup on 2/14/2012
      Source: CNBC

      In the 700-odd debates of the Republican primary season so far, the most common word, by a long way, is ‘jobs.’ It’s what the public wants, and it’s what each candidate promises to deliver. But stepping outside of that electoral process, what’s really happening in the market? We got a good hint on the morning of February 3rd when the U.S. Labor Department came out with its newest statistics, and they make for interesting reading. While government agencies have been cutting jobs, the private sector has been adding them at a remarkable pace. Continue reading →

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    • Brains Applied to Big Data: The Business is the Fabric

      Posted by Brook Reams on 1/4/2012
      Neurons with Synaptic Connections. Source: Salk Institute, Computational Neurobiology Lab.

      If most applications and their data act like self-contained single cell organisms, then Big Data is the new multi-cellular organism. To work efficiently, it requires brain-like connective tissue neurons can dynamically and quickly connect together as needed to process more information. Continue reading →

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    • How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love The Borg

      Posted by Lisa Caywood on 7/14/2011

      It’s officially summer blockbuster season, so it seems a good time to comment preemptively on the inevitable angst, film and ink that will be devoted to the next permutation of The Singularity.

      Let’s be clear: already, modern society literally cannot…

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    • Following the Money into the Cloud

      Posted by John Noh on 6/29/2011

      As the saying goes…just follow the money. That was IDC’s point in its latest update of the “Public IT Cloud Services” forecast. Looking to predict cloud-related expenditures through 2015, the company says the industry will balloon to nearly $73 billion…

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