Here’s advice on what not to do during an interview, from an engineer who has been on both sides of the interview table.
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December 16, 2013 at 12:13 pm Avoiding costly data center outages isn’t easy, but experts offer advice for reducing unplanned downtime.
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December 14, 2013 at 6:13 am Hybrid storage array company raised $ 168 million in its IPO today. Meanwhile, Violin Memory tumbled after its September IPO. Here’s why.
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December 14, 2013 at 12:14 am When the topic of cloud storage comes up, Box is usually mentioned as one of the chief players along with rival services like Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, SugarSync, and others. However, storing data in the cloud is one of the only similarities Box has with these competitors, because Box is marching to the beat of its own drum.
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December 13, 2013 at 6:16 pm The biggest threats to an organization aren’t evil outsiders, but much more routine risks involving poor planning, bad design, shoddy oversight, and lack of communication.
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December 13, 2013 at 12:12 am Cisco’s new SDN platform, Cisco ACI — despite some positive features — is confusing, unproven, and burdened with Cisco’s complicated past.
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December 12, 2013 at 6:13 pm White-box servers gained traction in the cloud and service provider markets in the third quarter, according to Dell’Oro’s first report on the server industry.
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December 12, 2013 at 12:13 pm As organizations phase out Cisco’s discontinued ACE application delivery controller, vendors fill the gap with hardware, virtual, and cloud-based replacements.
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December 12, 2013 at 12:12 am New campus switches take advantage of the Force10 OS and with OpenFlow support, promise to help enterprises leverage software-defined networking.
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December 11, 2013 at 6:13 pm To prepare for Cisco’s new entry-level certification exam, I used a combination of online training, exam guides and took practice tests.
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December 11, 2013 at 12:12 am