They have also believed that the safest place for data center operations is inside the four walls of the corporation.
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Splunk is a technology that has been adapted from its roots in data center operations to play exactly that sort of role.
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Pruning it back became a very difficult undertaking, and business priorities often prevented us from investing in engineering cycles to streamline the data center operations.
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Two recent events reminded us this spring that cloud computing infrastructures are vulnerable to the same genetic IT flaw that plagues traditional data center operations: everything fails, sooner or later.
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The diversification appears to be paying off, with Cisco's data center, wireless and video service operations all showing robust growth during the most recent quarter.
According to this 2002 article in Offshore, the Deepwater Horizon was set to be outfitted with a system called E-drill, which continuously beams data from rig operations to a monitoring center in Houston.
From there, the data go to NASA's Payload Operations Integration Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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During the STS-134 mission, and for the first several months afterward, about 40 members of the AMS team monitored the experiment and analyzed the data it sent down from the Payload Operations Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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As the cloud becomes central to operations, companies must contemplate the consequences of delegating critical data center infrastructure to services that might just go away.
But the executive branch has more direct influence in the operations of federal agencies, making it easier to carry out the data-center consolidation.
Specifically, Greenpeace says, Apple should pressure Duke Energy, which it says provides power to its North Carolina data center, to produce energy by cleaner means and to end its "mountaintop coal removal operations" from Apple's supply chain.
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