How Splunk is growing beyond its base in IT departments to become a data fabric that is more relevant to the business?

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Instead, you have started using worlds like data fabric and operational intelligence.

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The computer has a very high speed data fabric, he added.

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So persuasive is cloud computing that companies have been known to plunge into it with gusto while turning a deaf ear to warnings from information security officers, who see gaping holes in the corporate data security fabric where business managers see agility and economic benefit.

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The AMD SeaMicro Freedom Fabric design separates processors, storage, and data center network access from each other within their 10U chassis, so that each component can be replaced and updated on different schedules.

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Decoupling refresh cycles lets data center customers purchase server compute nodes, which are essentially very small motherboards (processor, system memory, boot environment, management, and connection to a local network fabric), separately from rack-level data center network interfaces (1GbE and 10GbE), separately from mass storage (hard disks and solid-state drives).

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This offers a compelling solution to the problem of physical data center space.(3) Each chassis shares traditional components including the fabric, HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLo) management, power supply and cooling fans.

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Connected by a series of electrodes and sensors woven into the fabric of the base layer, the cell wirelessly transmits more than 200 data records per second from each player to a central computer and then is displayed in a series of simplified insights and results on the coach's iPad.

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