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How to (Technically) Write Well: Advice for Better Technical Writing in IT
Whether it’s a missing apostrophe or a misplaced comma, you’re probably aware of the subtle—and sometimes hilarious—changes in meaning that a single overlooked grammar error can create. Grammar, alone, has the ability to reduce serious public warnings or heartfelt company ... Read More »
Thoughts on Apple, Outsourcing and Online Education
The U.S. government should stick it to Apple for not paying enough in taxes. Outsourcing is evil. Education is in danger from a public/private cabal. These are some easy reactions to current trends and news items, but for deeper insight, ... Read More »
A Mix-Tape of Data Protection Musings
Okay, I’m going to really date myself here, but remember the days when you manually fast-forwarded from song to song on a cassette tape (stopping and listening to find the break between songs)? It was pure tedium. Then, a radical ... Read More »
Big Data: Maybe You Don’t Need It
Two of the biggest hyped trends in IT are the cloud and big data. The cloud has its dark side, but what about big data? Is the ability to pull precious insights from reams of otherwise useless information an unadulterated ... Read More »
The Future, Data Centers and 400 Gigabit Ethernet
In July of 2012 the IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment was published. This report was the result of a year-long industry study of the future of Ethernet wireline bandwidth requirements.[i] At the heart of its findings was the ... Read More »
Industry Perspective: Bitcoin
Industry Perspective is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry Perspective asks Vitalik Buterin, head writer for Bitcoin Magazine, about the current ... Read More »
The Dark Side of the Cloud
The cloud boasts a variety of benefits that entice businesses: lower costs, security comparable to that of proprietary IT implementations, scalability and so on. Although some of these benefits (specifically, cost and security) are still matters of debate, they potentially ... Read More »
Count Them on One Hand: 5 Steps to Improving Your IT Operations in the Cloud
When Eric Clapton sang, “It’s in the way that you use it,” he might have been singing about making IT operate effectively in the cloud. Cloud computing is a technological phenomenon, but one must tackle a number of operational challenges ... Read More »
Giving Control Back to the Business: Identity and Access Management for the Real World
Seemingly every day we hear about another company being victimized by a hack or security breach. And although the lion’s share of these breaches are from outside threats, the amount of loss a company sustains from an internal breach often ... Read More »
Does DC Have a Chance in the Data Center?
As data centers take an ever larger bite of worldwide energy production, efficiency becomes an increasingly urgent topic. Much of the focus in recent years has been on areas like virtualization, improved cooling practices (like free cooling and bumping up ... Read More »
