CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

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.

Artificial Inteligence 168

Artificial Inteligence Generative AI ChatGPT Machine Learning 168

CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

On their own, IT practitioners can no longer effectively manage ever-increasingly complex IT environments, which can span multiple clouds, locations on the edge, colocation service providers, and enterprise data centers. The stack has become an intricate web of interdependencies, not all of which are well understood.

Artificial Intelligence 179

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence Data Center Cloud 179

CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

And there could be ancillary costs, such as the need for additional server hardware or data storage capacity. Here are some costs that will need to be included in your analysis: Hardware: Do I need to buy new hardware, or do I have capacity to run the software on existing servers and storage?

Software Review 197

Software Review Software Enterprise Disaster Recovery 197

CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It feels as if traditional metrics of experience have been upended. This means transitioning to renewable energy sources, responsibly disposing of e-waste, and optimizing hardware to be more energy-efficient.” Hiring in tech has always been a rollercoaster,” Hruby says. “It

CTO 209

CTO Sustainability Data Center Energy 209

CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

MSPs can also bundle in hardware, software, or cloud technology as part of their offerings. As long as the managed service provider meets those metrics, it doesn’t matter whether it uses dedicated staff, automation, or some other system to handle calls for that customer; the MSP decides.

Technical Review 195

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Systems Review Disaster Recovery 195

CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Specifically, partners would be required to commit that their data centers achieve zero carbon emissions by 2030, an effort that would require the use of 100% renewable energy. They are also becoming more and more aware that their data center operations are a very large contributor to their overall carbon footprint.

Cloud 158

Cloud Data Center Energy Innovation 158

Xebia

APRIL 14, 2023

no hardware to write off). AWS examples include emissions related to data center construction, and the manufacture and transportation of IT hardware deployed in data centers. Metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MTCO2e): The unit of measurement for calculating impact.

Sustainability 130

Sustainability Cloud AWS Energy 130

Xebia

JANUARY 15, 2024

Rehosting means you lift and shift your entire IT application landscape from an on-premise data center to a data center in the cloud. The logs and metrics of all your applications will automatically report to these systems, providing you with a comprehensive view of your applications and infrastructure.

Cloud 130

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization 130

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 11, 2025

These smaller distilled models can run on off-the-shelf hardware without expensive GPUs. Spending a little money on high-end hardware will bring response times down to the point where building and hosting custom models becomes a realistic option. The same model will run in the cloud at a reasonable cost without specialized servers.

Data Center 64

Data Center Training Off-The-Shelf Artificial Intelligence 64

CIO

DECEMBER 28, 2022

If you have 50,000 Office 365 users, there are no metrics to help you make the calculation at this point.” IT leaders generally need to get numbers from suppliers in four different categories: hardware vendors, software vendors, professional service providers, and cloud providers.

Sustainability 179

Sustainability Fractional CTO Report Energy 179

CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Optimize internal technology Today, CIOs can influence everything from hardware procurement and the way developers write code for their company, to how IT gathers, processes, distributes and stores data—all of which impact a company’s carbon footprint.

.Net 158

.Net Sustainability Energy Innovation 158

CIO

JANUARY 26, 2023

Standout features: Track loads on machines to ensure rightsized instance allocation Build reports summarizing consumption to help developers rightsize hardware Flexera One The Flexera One cloud management suite tackles many cloud management tasks, such as tracking assets or organizing governance to orchestrate control.

Tools 174

Tools Cloud Artificial Inteligence Artificial Intelligence 174

Openxcell

JANUARY 13, 2022

One purpose of monitoring is to gain high availability by reducing the number of critical time-based metrics –. Development teams receive comprehensive diagnostic data about the problems through automatic monitoring when performance or further difficulties occur. That calls for detecting (TTD). Prometheus.

DevOps 98

DevOps Tools Open Source Metrics 98

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Progress in research has been made possible by the steady improvement in: (1) data sets, (2) hardware and software tools, and (3) a culture of sharing and openness through conferences and websites like arXiv. We see a lot of new companies working on specialized hardware. Today, the community is much larger.

Technology 103

Technology Artificial Inteligence Machine Learning Hardware 103

CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

As leaders in the HPC industry, we are worried about how to cool these data centers. Many are looking at innovative data center designs including modular centers and colocation. Deployed successfully around the globe, liquid cooling is becoming essential to future proofing data centers.

Artificial Inteligence 88

Artificial Inteligence Data Center Artificial Intelligence Analytics 88

ProdOps

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The number of servers that Amazon.com had to buy and rack in their data-centers in order to have enough capacity to serve the peak demand +15% spare buffer. And one of the results was this document explaining how to reduce the fine-grained coupling between applications and hardware. Typical Weekly Traffic to Amazon.com?—?

Metrics 45

Metrics Insurance Weak Development Team Policies 45

RapidValue

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Resource utilization is the percentage of time occupied by the hardware components as compared to the total time that the component is available for use. Once the mobile app is installed, it is judged for various metrics like the speed, responsiveness, and stability which define the user experience and overall satisfaction.

Mobile 45

Mobile Performance Sustainability Testing 45

Ivanti

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Announcing the ISA-6000 Hardware Appliance. The ISA-6000 hardware appliance features massive performance improvements across the board, with throughput speeds for SSL and ESP traffic showing a 3X to 4X improvement in lab testing. (SSL Performance metrics are measured in a lab environment using industry-standard performance tools.

Google Cloud 75

Google Cloud Virtualization Hardware Operating System 75

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 11, 2019

There’s also exciting news on the hardware front. Last year we began tracking startups building specialized hardware for deep learning and AI for training and inference as well as for use in edge devices and in data centers. Thus, both RL users and RL researchers are already benefiting from using RLlib.

Artificial Inteligence 111

Artificial Inteligence Tools Machine Learning Open Source 111

Kentik

APRIL 3, 2023

Since the kernel is basically the software layer between the applications you’re running and the underlying hardware, eBPF operates just about as close as you can get to the line-rate activity of a host. Using a synthetic test, we can capture the metrics for each component of that interaction from layer 3 to the application layer itself.

Programming 110

Programming Network Load Balancer Linux 110

Altexsoft

MARCH 31, 2020

Only after these actions can you analyze data with dedicated software (a so-called online analytical processing or OLAP system). But how do you move data? You need to have infrastructure, hardware and/or software, that will allow you to do that. You need an efficient data pipeline. What is a data pipeline?

Data 76

Data Storage Analytics Data Center 76

Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

There is a lot of confusion regarding the two primary data sets in network management: SNMP and flow. SNMP is used to collect metadata and metrics about a network device. Aside from general metadata, you can also collect numerical data. This post will help define both and provide more context on where and why to use each.

Network 16

Network Data Center Construction Architecture 16

Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

There is a lot of confusion regarding the two primary data sets in network management: SNMP and flow. SNMP is used to collect metadata and metrics about a network device. Aside from general metadata, you can also collect numerical data. This post will help define both and provide more context on where and why to use each.

Network 78

Network Data Center Construction Architecture 78

Datavail

JANUARY 28, 2020

Avoiding expensive investments in hardware. They know the best methodologies to study the Source On-prem Datacenter either by installing the tools like TSO Logic or by analyzing the past metrics of each individual servers. Study your on-premises data center before you select a cloud strategy. Migrating virtual machines.

Cloud 98

Cloud Disaster Recovery Software Review AWS 98

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

JANUARY 15, 2019

For lack of similar capabilities, some of our competitors began implying that we would no longer be focused on the innovative data infrastructure, storage and compute solutions that were the hallmark of Hitachi Data Systems. A REST API is built directly into our VSP storage controllers. 2019 will provide even more proof points.

Systems Review 72

Systems Review Storage System Software Review 72

CableLabs

APRIL 4, 2019

When considering which FEC to choose for a new specification, you need to consider some key metrics, including the following: Coding overhead rate­— The ratio of the number of redundant bits to information bits. Other considerations include hardware complexity, latency, and power consumption.

Transportation 75

Transportation Metrics .Net Data Center 75

Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 18, 2023

Security teams can access vital information, such as metrics and response times, from one location and reduce manual data sorting for security analysts. Our next generation cybersecurity platforms provide end-to-end security from the data center, to the cloud, to your SOC. cybersecurity tools on average.

Security 98

Security Software Review Malware Survey 98

Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Green Software Foundation defines “green software” as a new field that combines climate science, hardware, software, electricity markets, and data center design to create carbon-efficient software that emits the least amount of carbon possible.

Software 80

Software Energy Software Engineering Sustainability 80

CIO

JUNE 14, 2023

Going from petabytes (PB) to exabytes (EB) of data is no small feat, requiring significant investments in hardware, software, and human resources. Before you can even think about analyzing exabytes worth of data, ensure you have the infrastructure to store more than 1000 petabytes! Much larger.

Data 97

Data Scalability Storage Big Data 97

Capgemini

JUNE 8, 2021

For example, Microsoft is planning to become carbon negative by 2030, and 70% of its massive data centers will run on renewable energy by 2023. These are levied on internal business units for the carbon emissions associated with the company’s global operations for data centers, offices, labs, manufacturing, and business air travel.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Data Center Artificial Inteligence Energy 52

Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? No matter how you slice it, additional instances, hardware, etc., Costs Redundancy isn’t cheap.

Network 104

Network Load Balancer Cloud Backup 104

Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

Aside from using this traffic data, Kentik also collects information from the network devices using SNMP. This data is used to profile the devices and determine the configuration of the hardware and software. We also collect interface details and metrics using SNMP. This keeps employees safe at home.

Network 69

Network Strategy LAN WAN 69

Datavail

AUGUST 5, 2019

With the massive amount of data being generated every minute, it gets tough to maintain the databases and costs associated with it. Costs can include licensing, hardware, storage, and personnel headcount (DBAs)—these costs are necessary to ensure databases are running optimally for higher productivity.

AWS 15

AWS Cloud Backup Storage 15

taos

JUNE 1, 2017

One axes represents the architectural layers of modern systems and applications from the underlying hardware all the way through to the end-user experience. The other axis represents data generated all the way through data consumption. This is common in traditional data centers as well as in private clouds.

Metrics 40

Metrics Hardware Architecture Systems Review 40

Kentik

JULY 10, 2018

This series of guest posts has concentrated on the numerous challenges facing enterprise IT managers as businesses embrace digital transformation and migrate IT applications from private data centers into the cloud. In this post, I would like to finally expand on this theme.

Tools 45

Tools Cloud Big Data WAN 45

xmatters

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This requires robust infrastructure—including a massive storage and networking capacity hosted in on-premise data centers or cloud computing resources—and the ability to handle unexpected situations through incident responses. Service Intelligence helps resolvers gain insights into the root cause of incidents and incident metrics.

Data Center 52

Data Center Network Study Hardware 52

xmatters

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This requires robust infrastructure—including a massive storage and networking capacity hosted in on-premise data centers or cloud computing resources—and the ability to handle unexpected situations through incident responses. Service Intelligence helps resolvers gain insights into the root cause of incidents and incident metrics.

Data Center 52

Data Center Network Study Hardware 52