Patrick Thibodeau: Are data centers toxic?

	Netfix to ditch data center, embrace cloud | Preston Gralla: Report says Microsoft burned millions of watts of unnecessary power to avoid fines
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	Patrick Thibodeau: Are data centers toxic? The New York Times is getting criticism over its data center series. Beginning the series with a 2006 anecdote about a near server meltdown at Facebook, three processor generations ago, was not an auspicious beginning. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Quickly Identify Misconfigured Active Directory Permissions What users have access to sensitive files or directories? Find out without tedious manual effort. Troubleshoot permissions issues both locally and on remote shares with SolarWinds free tool, Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory. Easily see what permissions a user or group of users has for an object and why. Get a complete hierarchical view of the effective permission and access rights for a specific file folder or share drive today by downloading the free tool. Get Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory >> In this Issue Netfix to ditch data center, embrace cloud Preston Gralla: Report says Microsoft burned millions of watts of unnecessary power to avoid fines INSIDER Complete guide to network virtualization Shark Tank: Problem found RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hortonworks Live Webinar Series: The Future of Apache Hadoop Hadoop has evolved rapidly to become the leading platform for managing, processing and analyzing big data. Join us in this 4-part series with the core committers of the Apache Hadoop projects to gain insight into Pig, Ambari, Zookeeper and YARN. Learn use-cases and best practices on how to get started with Hadoop and live Q&A. Register now! Netfix to ditch data center, embrace cloud Netflix no longer wants to run a data center to support its in-house IT services. So it's shifting internal applications to Amazon's cloud and turning to software-as-a-service providers for other business systems. Read More Preston Gralla: Report says Microsoft burned millions of watts of unnecessary power to avoid fines Microsoft burned burned milllions of watts of electricity unnecessarily so it could avoid paying a fine for overestimating electricity use, according to the New York Times. The Times, which took an in-depth look at the company's data centers, reports other troubling issues, including a review under California's Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Program. Read More WEBCAST: T-Systems Charting a Course for Realizing Business Value in the Cloud Cloud is not simply about delivering IT services. Rather it is about vesting the organization with the agility it must have to respond to challenges and opportunities at the speed of business. Tune into this live webcast - Thursday, October 18, 2012, 2:00 PM, EDT - to learn how to blaze your own pathway to enterprise applications in the cloud. Learn more. INSIDER Complete guide to network virtualization There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed at network virtualization via the creation of multiple virtual Ethernet networks that can share a common physical infrastructure in a manner that is somewhat analogous to multiple virtual machines sharing a common physical server. Read More Shark Tank: Problem found The help desk at this 20-store hardware chain gets an automated report that the nightly process for updating prices has failed -- which means the on-call networking guy has to talk the help desk tech through the fix. Read More
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