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Power Assure box manages power in data center
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Data center start-up Power Assure introduces an appliance and hosted application for matching server power with computing demand, which can lower energy usage by as much as 50 percent.
Large Chunks of Data
0I saw a post recently where someone talked about trying to get better performance from a report. They were selecting 5mm rows from a table and wanted to see if there was a more efficient way to chunk out this data so that the instance would not report memory errors.
My first question is what kind of report has 5mm rows of data? That’s just too much data.
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Social Engineering Dangers
0I heard about a social engineering contest at this year’s DefCon hacker conference. The write-up said that every company targeted would have failed in a security audit, and these were some large companies, like Google, BP, Proctor and Gamble, Microsoft and more. It truly highlights the “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link” analogy being applied to companies, and I’m sure that the larger the company, the more weak links there are.
Security is a constant battle. It’s hard to get right, and it’s hard to get people to take is seriously. Most employees don’t necessarily think that the information in a company is all that important. In fact, if you look at your databases, how much data in there do you think is really critical?
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Facebook reacts to Greenpeace anticoal campaign
0Social network gets flak from Greenpeace over its planned giant data center in Oregon, but Facebook says its efficiency will be industry-leading.
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Appliances – Just Add Data
0The first release of a large data appliance from Microsoft is the SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Edition in which you buy a rack of pre-configured servers that you access with tools and perform limited management on. I was reminded of this as I read about Teradata’s new product strategy, it seemed that they have integrated an appliance in there as well.
Appliances bring some value to customers by supposedly reducing some of the tuning, configuration, setup, etc. costs in setting up a system. Hopefully the also reduce some ongoing costs that might come from mis-configuration, things running slowly, etc. How many times has an inexperienced person setup a server in a way that causes issues for an application?
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