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Colocation: The Benefits of Cost-Effective Data Centers

Kaseya

With businesses planning and budgeting for their Information Technology (IT) needs for 2021, deciding on whether to build or expand their own data centers may come into play. There are significant expenses associated with a data center facility, which we’ll discuss below. What Is a Colocation Data Center?

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Avoiding Last-Mile Challenges for Remote Workers

CIO

But there’s one catch we often hear regarding productivity, and that is inconsistent Internet connections that downgrade the experience, particularly while conducting conference calls or sharing material from a home office. Best Practice 2: Internet service is an essential utility for key employees. cellular, air-gapped systems, etc.)

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The AI continuum

CIO

Retrain and fine-tune an existing model Retraining proprietary or open-source models on specific datasets creates smaller, more refined models that can produce accurate results with lower-cost cloud instances or local hardware. Retraining, refining, and optimizing create efficiency so you can run on less expensive hardware.

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Understanding the Future of the Data Center Edge

Dzone - DevOps

With the adoption of Kubernetes and microservices, the edge has evolved from simple hardware load balancers to a full stack of hardware and software proxies that comprise API Gateways, content delivery networks, and load balancers. The Early Internet and Load Balancers.

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The CTO’s newest hat is green

CIO

Data centers run on electricity, which often comes from the burning of fossil fuels. In addition, computing hardware can use non-renewable resources mined from the earth, creating other environmental concerns. Dell Technologies is also working to make its hardware more sustainable. But becoming greener isn’t enough.

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

CIO

That has the potential to increase dramatically as organizations embrace AI, the internet of things, blockchain, and other resource-intensive emerging technologies. On-prem data centers have an outsized impact on carbon emissions and waste. Let them do the job of efficiently running data centers.”

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How the C-Suite Can Champion Sustainability Across the Enterprise

CIO

Data centers: When considering a move to the cloud , choose a green cloud provider that has a sustainability strategy that reduces the environmental impact of their data centers. Data: Use data to share information around sustainability efforts.