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Growing Pains for Containers, Data Centers Call for Better Management

DevOps.com

Containers have taken the tech community by storm with their ability to drive agile and effective innovation. Compared to the rigid nature of virtual machines, it’s no wonder developers and IT teams have flocked to containers and their flexibility.

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Data Center Modernization - Transforming Data Center Focus from Infrastructure to Information

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

While the acronym IT stands for Information Technology and is synonymous with the data center, in reality the focus of IT has often been more on infrastructure since infrastructure represented the bulk of a data center’s capital and operational costs. The answer lies in a smart approach to data center modernization.

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Top 8 IT certifications in demand today

CIO

Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) The Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) certification is offered by ScrumAlliance and includes three certification modules, including CAL Essentials, CAL for Teams, and CAL for Organizations. To earn your CompTIA A+ certification you’ll have to pass two separate exams.

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Extreme data center pressure? Burst to the cloud with CDP!

Cloudera

Cloud has given us hope, with public clouds at our disposal we now have virtually infinite resources, but they come at a different cost – using the cloud means we may be creating yet another series of silos, which also creates unmeasurable new risks in security and traceability of our data. How Burst to Cloud works.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers.

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

CIO

At the center of this shift is increasing acknowledgement that to support AI workloads and to contain costs, enterprises long-term will land on a hybrid mix of public and private cloud. Such private cloud solutions eliminate the risks of multitenancy data leakage, for example, a key CIO concern with AI.

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Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers

TechCrunch

Data centers with servers attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) can suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute. Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of data transfers, Lightbits Labs CEO Eran Kirzner explains to TechCrunch. ” Image Credits: Lightbits Labs.

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