A COUNTY GOVERNMENT MEETS ITS HARDEST TEST: COVID-19
As its residents face unprecedented challenges, Kern County ramps up response to deliver assistance and support.
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C2 Spring 2021
A Note from Connect Leadership
The last 12 months have tested our community like never before. We have had a global pandemic, major security breaches, and new ways of working and socializing. Throughout all of these things we have remained strong and vibrant.
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Editor’s Letter
Welcome to the Spring issue of Connect Converge
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
– unknown
When I say welcome, Spring, it is heartfelt. On my honor, I pledge not to mention any pandemic buzzwords created in 2020, especially after discovering the tool Buzzsaw that works to strip what I call fuzzwords from press releases, speeches, blog posts, and editor’s letters.…
Around The Storage Block
I had a really hard time deciding on just one thing to talk about in my quarterly article – there’s been a lot happening in storage and I didn’t want to miss the chance to tell you about it all. So this article will be a bit of a potpourri of news I want to share with you. So here we go!
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The Flip Side
Those who know me know that I am obsessed with experimenting with new digital collaboration platforms and technologies. These days I’m especially intrigued with those that can help build trust, reduce loneliness and strengthen social connectivity; and, in so doing improve employee engagement, cross-functional collaboration, and organizational culture health. These topics are on everyone’s minds as companies envision much more remote or hybrid remote work becoming much more permanent due to the pandemic.
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HPE Developer Community Meets a Changing World Head On
The world is changing.
When have those words never been true? The only real constant in life is change. How you deal with change is what defines how you will survive – and thrive. Consider the challenges posed by social distancing to any community of technologists. Take the HPE Developer Community, for example. We thrive on connecting with each other, discussing problems, and collaborating to build solutions.…
Building a container strategy―13 potholes to avoid
Containers and the rise of Kubernetes is the most talked-about, most impactful IT technology today. Containers give enterprises the ability to do amazing things, like build applications faster, move workloads between platforms, and optimize their environments.
Used correctly, containers open the agility doors of the organization and enable teams to build solutions faster than ever before. But, as anybody who’s implemented a new technology knows, pathways aren’t always smooth.…
Discover HPE’s new building block for digital transformation
If there is one realization enterprises around the world reached last year, it is the fact that digital transformation can’t wait. In responding to the COVID-19 crisis, companies faced starkly different realities based on how much—or how little—they had advanced their digital transformation journeys. Some were caught without any scalable remote working technologies, while for others, even if disruptive, the move to a working-from-home model was relatively straightforward.…
Easily Modernize and Expose Valuable Enscribe Data – Eliminate Data Silos with HPE Shadowbase
Several customers recently approached us looking for solutions to their remote data access/connection requirements. HPE Shadowbase software uses a data replication/integration architecture to meet these needs, and has experience successfully deploying these solutions at a number of customer sites.
Resolving this Challenge
In the past, companies accessed trapped data via remote clients. Unfortunately, this approach had several issues:
- Queries impacted several key components
- Production environment
- Network
- CPU resources
- Queries timed out and failed if the network was down or the production environment was inaccessible
Today, these companies face a dilemma: “What do we do if our solution has gone End-of-Service-Life (EOSL)?
Conversational AI with Transfer Learning
Introduction
I recently joined Stephen Foskett from Gestalt IT on a video podcast to discuss “Improving AI with Transfer Learning”. This podcast is part of a series of podcasts on “Utilizing AI”. The series focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) practical applications in the modern enterprise data center and cloud infrastructure.
The full description and the link to the podcast can be found here.…