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A combination of macroeconomic headwinds and internal problems led to Intel’s revenue dropping 22% to $15.3 billion in the second quarter of 2022, marking the seventh straight quarter of decline for the chipmaker. Revenue was also 15% below the company’s original guidance for the quarter. “Due to the difficult macroeconomic environment together with our own execution challenges, our results for the quarter were well below expectations and necessitate a significant revision to our full-year financial…

This is the third blog in a series on financial services where I investigate a few challenges of managing hybrid cloud operations in the payment application development arena. In the first blog, I explored new trends in traditional banking. In the second blog I focused on some of the challenges insurance companies face while navigating their digital transformations. In this blog, we will look at how payment application companies stay at the forefront of innovation…

The market for edge data center services and equipment will grow at a compound annual rate of 17% over the next five years, propelling the total size of the market above $18 billion by 2026, according to a report from Ireland-based analytics firm ResearchAndMarkets.com. Edge data centers, which the report defined as “small data centers located close to the edge of a network”—that is, closer to the end-user than the public cloud—are currently a $9.3…

I’ve been talking for several years now about how network engineers need to become comfortable with Linux. I generally position it that we don’t all need to become “big bushy beard-bearing sysadmins.” Rather, network engineers must be able to navigate and work with a Linux-based system confidently. I’m not going to go into all the reasons I believe that in this post (if you’d like a deeper exploration of that topic, please let me know)….

Organizations have an ever growing amount of data to manage and protect. The cost of data loss is just too high. Disaster recovery solutions are used to protect from unexpected catastrophic events, including power outages, civil emergencies, criminal or military attacks, and natural disasters. They are also used to protect from cyberattacks, often coupled with cyber recovery techniques. Disaster recovery has data protection at its foundation. For block storage deployments, Fibre Channel SAN extension solutions…

Today, I am excited to announce that Senior Vice President Jeff Campbell has been promoted to Chief Government Strategy Officer of Cisco. Jeff succeeds Michael Timmeny, who previously held the role and opened Cisco’s Washington, D.C. office in 1998. Michael will now serve as an Executive Advisor for Cisco. As Chief Government Strategy Officer, Jeff will lead Cisco’s government relations worldwide, managing a team that spans six continents and is charged with advancing issues that…

Today, many organizations are creating significant competitive differentiation through investments and deployment in edge initiatives. There are a number of good reasons for this. By expanding beyond the traditional walls of their datacenters to strengthen their requirements, organizations are able to improve operations and business resilience, achieve better security control, and even improve data sovereignty. All this while providing them with end-to-end visibility through analytics for optimization of cloud applications and edge compute resources. Deploying…

Dell is detailing hardware and software updates to its midrange unified file and block PowerStore storage architecture. The upgrades come two years after Dell launched the PowerStore platform, which it claims has seen 12,000 deployments in that time. That’s a pretty good showing considering it competes with NetApp, HPE, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, and Pure Storage in the block storage market. Shannon Champion, product marketing lead for Dell Technologies in converged infrastructure and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI),…

Ransomware and other advanced attacks continue to evolve and threaten organizations around the world. Effectively defending your endpoints from these attacks can be a complex undertaking, and a seemingly endless number of security acronyms only compounds that complexity. There are so many acronyms – EPP, EDR, MEDR, MDR, XDR, and more – for various cybersecurity products and services that it becomes difficult to understand the differences between them and choose the right solution for your…

Life on the command line on Linux is clearly something most of us enjoy, but typing the same command again and again can become tiresome. To avoid that boredom, this post explains a number of ways that you can make repeating commands – or repeating commands but with some changes – a lot easier than you might expect. Rerunning the previous command First, the easiest way to repeat a command is simply by typing !!….