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Throwback Thursday: Well, he was busy, OK?
Hurricane's storm surge hits this Gulf Coast chemical plant and inundates it, and in the aftermath there's lots of cleaning up -- and counting up the damaged computers.
Throwback Thursday: How (not) to save money in IT
The servers in this computer room are having problems with their disk drives, but fortunately there's a simple short-term fix -- and, unfortunately, a longer-term agenda.
Throwback Thursday: Wait, it's not fixed yet!
Pilot fish works the late shift, so he's not due into the office until 10 a.m. But at 8:45 a.m., he gets a call from a colleague with bad news: The server is dead.
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When the going gets tough...
It's a few decades back, and this IT pilot fish is on the team converting a system at an organization in the Midwest on a grueling schedule -- and then there's bad news.
Speed kills
It's the 1980s, and this IT pilot fish figures out a neat hack to speed up a data entry job for his company's minicomputer -- but there's just one small problem with it.
China once again cracks down on cryptocurrencies, news outlets
The Chinese government has banned more than a half dozen online media outlets after they published information on cryptocurrencies, and a regional government authority clamped down on all venues hosting crypto events.
Networks for a yottabyte world
The future requires networks that are qualitatively more flexible, scalable, efficient and manageable. Network function virtualization and software defined networks are the way forward.
The Challenges and Rewards of Modernizing Data Centers
In today’s fast-moving world, the ability to bring new applications and services to market quickly is key to success.
Forget the facts -- we want something to blame!
This data center relies heavily on one major IT vendor, but the company's CEO is having second thoughts about that situation -- and thinks he knows what to do about it.
Throwback Thursday: Is this the end for Y2K?
It's early 2008 when this systems support pilot fish starts getting reports that a special Y2K tool has stopped working -- and that turns out to be a big problem.
Review: 6 data recovery tools for USB flash drives and more
Accidentally deleted an important document, picture or other file on a thumb drive or memory card? These tools can help you get it back.
No good deed goes unpunished -- for anyone involved
This hospital's computer room has a history of intermittent and hard-to-pin-down issues -- and while a consultant has the cure, he tries to be just a bit too helpful.
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What is virtualization?
In the IT world, virtualization has revolutionized the way we think about data and where it lives, moving us closer to a completely on-demand data world.
It's a Y2K miracle!
On the run-up to Y2K, this consultant's job is making sure a government department's patches and firmware are up to date. Just one problem: He's getting, um, help.
How to win friends and influence people, eventually
After a bit too much New Year's Eve celebrating, these execs decide to send the data center team home and do the year-end close themselves. What could go wrong with that?
Throwback Thursday: Hey mister, got the time?
This law-enforcement agency stores its mainframe data with time stamps on every record, which can be important for court cases. But what time zone are they actually in?
Artificial Intelligence for an Autonomous Data Center
HPE InfoSight is artificial intelligence (AI) that predicts and prevents problems across the infrastructure stack and ensures optimal performance and efficient resource use.
Who says lowly IT techs don't get any power?
Pilot fish is sent to a location in a faraway land to do some routine data center maintenance, and everything is fine -- until it's time to upgrade this power supply.
Wayback Wednesday: Undependence Day
At 12:30 a.m. on the Fourth of July, sysadm gets a page from an outsourcer: A remote job can't connect to the server. But what could be going wrong on a holiday?
Wait, how can you be unclear on the concept of HEAT?
This company's newly installed WAN network equipment has a big problem: It's overheating in a big way. But the reason turns out to be not such a big mystery after all.
Throwback Thursday: Well, no, not exactly
Pilot fish is setting up a new router to let a branch office connect to HQ's VoIP. The final step: Have a user at the other end restart the remote router. Easy, right?
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