IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The following is an evolving recommended reading list of data infrastructure topics including, server, storage I/O, networking, cloud, virtual, container, data protection (backup, security, HA, BC, DR). The evolving list includes books, blogs, podcast?s,

Storage 100

Storage Virtualization Network Cloud 100

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

neural networks), it need not be the definitive model for the design of superior AI. Jess Lpez Lobo has a degree in Computer Engineering (University of Deusto, 2003), a Masters in Advanced AI (UNED, 2014), and a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies in Mobile Networks (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 2018).

Artificial Intelligence 312

Artificial Intelligence Research Social Government 312

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Another virtual assistant, Red, leverages Honeywells archive of 350,000 pages of product manuals and more than 50,000 internal articles to answer questions. Jordan, who came aboard five years ago, explains that Honeywell has been on a massive, years-long transformational journey, from its infrastructure and network, to everything above it.

Project Management 200

Project Management Training Data Engineering 200

Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 31, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Particls switches on the power of RSS | Main | A week of hot news on the web: Trade sales mark the boom » Launching the Web 2.0 report - You can download Chapter 2 on Web 2.0

Trends 159

Trends Network Media Social 159

Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What if software virtualization is the tip of the iceberg? Chock-full of great presentations, networking and predictions, topped-off with a closing keynote from Nick Carr on The Big Switch. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Virtualization 124

Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2024

The rise of generative AI, AR/VR, and rapid networks has unlocked new educational possibilities that were once impossible in traditional classrooms. This can be implemented in digital attendance records, bookings for private consultations, digital gradings, and more. billion by 2030.

Education 246

Education Network Study Research 246

Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 15, 2019

Much of this is of course not new, I wrote about the rise of contextual search in 2011, and more recently about the massive opportunity for virtual assistants. Once virtual assistants understand not just us but the context for our questions and interactions they will become increasingly valuable to us.

Knowledge Base 106

Knowledge Base Virtualization Course Trends 106

GeekWire

JULY 27, 2020

F5 Networks continued to benefit from its expansion into software and services, boosting revenue by 4% overall to $586 million, including 43% growth in software revenue, beating Wall Street’s expectations for its fiscal third quarter, ended June 30. ” A slide shown by F5 Networks CEO Francois Locoh-Donou during his presentation.

Applications 132

Applications Network Software Software 132

Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 27, 2007

How well-informed you are depends largely on the quality of your personal network, and how effectively you can gather and trade information through the people you know. There are many courses and books available on developing reading speed and comprehension. Develop your reading and note-taking skills.

Trends 158

Trends Network Media Social 158

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2024

We are working to partner with higher education institutions to close that gap, rewrite the book on how to prepare cybersecurity students, and ultimately reinforce the entire industry’s strength and security.” About INE Security: INE Security is the premier provider of online networking and cybersecurity training and certification.

Education 278

Education Security Training Artificial Intelligence 278

Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Virtualization. (31). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Dell Data Center Cloud 100

Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 6, 2013

Earlier this year I gave the opening keynote at the Thought Leadership Forum on The Virtual University , which examined the future of business education. The opening chapter in the book was generated from a transcript of my keynote. This kind of learning is about networks, about access, about critical thinking and problem solving.

Education 159

Education Network Social Trends 159

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. These factors will prevent some global companies from successfully deploying bandwidth-hungry enterprise IT strategies worldwide, such as virtualization and data center consolidation. – bg.

WAN 273

WAN Security Enterprise Enterprise 273

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 30, 2013

Basically, the statement was that it was possible to create do-it-yourself network virtualization. What are the core components of a network virtualization solution? Programmable edge virtual switches in the hypervisor. An encapsulation protocol to isolate logical networks from the physical network.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Network Linux Open Source 60

GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jeff Hussey, CEO and co-founder of Tempered Networks, and his wife on a trip to Austria. Jeff Hussey , co-founder and CEO of Seattle’s Tempered Networks, is not a believer in long-term work-from-home practices. “We His office at Tempered Networks has views of Puget Sounds. Tempered Networks Photo). Jeff Hussey.

Network 135

Network Load Balancer Exercises Meeting 135

CTOvision

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Though organizational leaders may think that requiring employees to use complex passwords that get changed often is making their network secure, reality is this is often counterintuitive and leads employees to user unsecure methods.

Security 293

Security Applications Authentication Storage 293

Fountainhead

MAY 13, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Co-Located Networking. The SuperNAP is literally a nexus of multiple Network Access Points - thats the NAP part - originally built by Enron. (In Virtualization. (31). Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. Fountainhead. Marketing. (3).

Data Center 272

Data Center Cloud Data Energy 272

Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 1, 2020

Last week on The Virtual Excellence Show our scheduled guest was not able to make it at short notice, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to share my own life story and how it relates to the virtual. Hi, welcome to The Virtual Excellence Show. So I thought it’d be worth sharing my story of the virtual.

Virtualization 88

Virtualization Network Groups Course 88

Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This morning Future Exploration Network issued this press release (excuse the hyperbole :-) ) I have already done several radio interviews on the forecasts in the release with quite a few more radio, newspaper and TV interviews lined up for the next days - the ideas seem to have struck a chord. Futurist proved correct!

Social 132

Social Network Trends Media 132

Scott Lowe

MARCH 19, 2013

I’ve been phenomenally lucky to be involved in a number of book projects around VMware vSphere. Even though that book hasn’t sold as many units as the Mastering books, it’s a work of which I’m equally proud. this new version of the book has a new interior as well! Announcing VMware vSphere Design.

Vmware 118

Vmware Virtualization Storage Training 118

GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Seattle-based FFA just wrapped up a virtual version of its eight-week Ready Set Raise program, which requires each company to have a female or non-binary CEO. We give consumers access to accurate, transparent, and bookable inventory that is available across our network of over 200 retailers and 75 cities.

Virtualization 135

Virtualization Meeting Authentication Company 135

GeekWire

JULY 24, 2021

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees recently that the company’s long-term goal is to “bring the metaverse to life” — helping to create an interconnected world of physical, virtual and augmented reality spaces that will reshape the way we work, interact with each other, create new things, and generally experience life.

Engineering 143

Engineering Microsoft Google Conference 143

Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 22, 2020

Today was the first episode of my new live-streaming show, The Virtual Excellence Show (which I haven’t even had time to announce on this blog yet, but if you’d like to follow it please subscribe here !). My guest on the first show was the amazing and colorful Howard Rheingold. You can see the conversation in the show below.

Social 148

Social Virtualization Media Network 148

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

The service provider plans to help deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot across its extensive client network, targeting a million users among its 2,000 global customers in 11 different industries.

Microsoft 321

Microsoft Enterprise Enterprise Training 321

IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Learn more about Servers: Physical, Virtual, Cloud, and Containers in chapter 4 of my new book Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press 2017)

Software 100

Software Software Data Storage 100

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2024

Ask your network, and you’ll likely find IT leader peers who have been in a similar situation at least once in their career. I was in transition twice and wasn’t ready to handle the networking, persistence, and stress that comes with finding a new opportunity. Networking is a lifelong endeavor.

Nonprofit 221

Nonprofit Network Media Development 221

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Srinivasan will share Petco’s ongoing data journey at CIO’s Future of Data Summit , taking place virtually May 10-11. Darren Rovell, a senior producer at Action Network and a former journalist at ESPN and CNBC , will share how sophisticated data newly available to bettors is equalizing the playing field with sports books.

Fractional CTO 246

Fractional CTO Data How To CTO 246

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. My re-think was that attributes of Compute, Storage, and yes, Network, all had to be reconsidered in the context of a holistic cloud-based infrastructure. Ubiquitous (authorized) network access. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Cloud 186

Cloud Storage Data Center Virtualization 186

Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system.". a) Look for the ability to virtualize infrastructure as well as software.

Disaster Recovery 145

Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Network 145

Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 13, 2014

Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley The O’Reilly @oreillymedia media folks (oops, excuse me, Microsoft Press) sent me out (that’s a disclosure btw) an real soft cover print copy of Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley aka @MicroFarley of Microsoft/Storsimple (..)

Storage 71

Storage Microsoft Enterprise Enterprise 71

Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Virtualization. (31).

Applications 214

Applications Cloud Data Center Load Balancer 214

Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 9, 2012

I explored the idea in my book Living Networks , and at more length in my piece Autopoiesis and how hyper-connectivity is literally bringing the networks to life. Early examples of this include virtual mockups such as the Digital Pre-assembly system Boeing used in the design of the 777 aircraft. ?

Programming 167

Programming Examples Virtualization Network 167

Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Amazon Web Services recent (re) announcement of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) functionality as it ventures into the enterprise ( on AWS Blog ) as well as their recent teaming with Equinix and Netapp. Virtualization. (31). Fountainhead. Marketing. (3).

Strategy 210

Strategy Cloud Vmware Data Center 210

GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2023

Providence initially started DexCare in 2016 to help with digital patient acquisition for its same-day care business, Providence Express Care Virtual. DexCare’s software platform helps manage health system capacity and appointment booking, navigating patients to the most appropriate care setting.

Healthcare 104

Healthcare Groups System Virtualization 104

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Consider the use case to deliver huge numbers of applications and desktops across hundreds, thousands, or tens-of-thousands of mobile clients – Challenging for IT due to configuration, set-up, monitoring, management, network optimization and scaling.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

Fountainhead

MAY 29, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Now that I’ve been with EMC for a few months, my relationship to storage, computing, and networking has once again shifted. Now, enter the Virtual Machine. Virtualization. (31). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Marketing. (3).

Data 160

Data Data Center Virtualization Transportation 160

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

Well, the title kind of says it all—yes, there will be an update to the popular Mastering VMware vSphere 5 book, with new content for the vSphere 5.5 However, this book represents more than just another title in the Mastering VMware vSphere series. Chad contacted me, and said he’d been approached about writing a book.

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Groups Storage 106