Yet another customer uses our chips in casino gaming systems to keep track of user data, configuration settings and transaction data.

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The web sites are created by point and click configuration and entering data in forms.

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Unfortunately, people operate on human time scales and are simply incapable of discovering all of the information about a network that changes from hour to hour and turning that data into changes in the configuration of security devices.

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The good news for CIOs is that a growing amount of vendor investment has been drawn to this market, which Gartner has named Data Center Infrastructure Management. nlyte software, for example, provides a modeling, monitoring, and management suite for understanding power and cooling in a data center and optimizing placement and configuration of racks and servers.

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While the backup is restoring, you make a change to the data being restored that redirects the data being restored to overwrite a critical configuration file.

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What is coming is a new way of running IT made possible by two forms of data center automation: scripts and model-driven configuration.

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Rob Gardos, chief executive of GridApp Systems, a company that helps automate the deployment, configuration and management of databases, says that one large data center he encountered took 18 months to fully install an Oracle quarterly security patch across the enterprise.

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Thus flash memory in ultra thin notebook computers will be most popular ether incorporated into a hybrid HDD (such as those offered by Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Toshiba) or as a dual storage device configuration where the OS and applications are stored on a small SSD and user data is stored on a HDD.

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