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A tribute to Turing, the father of modern computing

“The past is a foreign country—they do things differently there.” It’s a saying that rings especially true in the world of technology. But while innovating requires us to focus on the future, there are times when it’s important to look back. Today—the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth—is one such moment.

June 18

Bryan Beal @bryanrbeal

Hacker claims breach of 79 banks, releases customer data

http://feedly.com/k/MjPEV0 

June 16

Mark Thiele @mthiele10

The path to public cloud will continue to be littered with obstructions of broken data centers.

June 11, 2012 01:17 PM PDT

Compass Datacenters

You May Be Evolving, I Just Want It to Work

Data center business models seem to be evolving nowadays. This evolution can be quite a tricky thing as scientists now view the evolutionary model as more of a shrub than a tree. What this means from a practical perspective is that you are as likely to evolve yourself right out of existence as you are to taking your place as the next link in the chain.

May 30

NetApp @NetApp

@jasonblosil explains why Thin Provisioning is not only an attractive method for data storage—it’s downright sexy http://nt-ap.com/KqDTMe 

May 23, 2012 3:37:09 AM EDT

Source: LooseBolts

Author: mmanos

Sights and Sounds of Datacentre 2012: Christian Belady

This morning I sat in on Christian Belady’s presentation at DataCentre2012. I will post small blips about things that interest me as the conference continues.

Both Christian and Laurent Verneray of Schneider each identified 5 megatrends. Interestingly while there were common themes between them at a high level, they attacked the trends from different altitudes of the data centre problem space. Both discussed the coming pressure on water as a resource.

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