Short clip: 1-800 Flowers: Managing the holiday peaks
Steve Bozzo, CIO of 1-800-Flowers speaks about managing flower delivery operations during the peak holiday periods and the excess capacity during the slower times.
Steve Bozzo, CIO of 1-800-Flowers speaks about managing flower delivery operations during the peak holiday periods and the excess capacity during the slower times.
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Supply chain shutdowns have created network servers shortages, and delivery prices have risen from hundreds to thousands of dollars.
Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, explains that because bloggers don't blog as much on the weekends, the company can save on costs by using fewer servers during those low times, while adding servers from the Amazon cloud to deal with heavy weekday traffic.
A modular HPC server with a Xeon Phi twist
Scott Fulton tells Karen Roby that people ask new and more complex questions of Siri, Alexa, and Google every day. How accurate and useful their responses are speaks to the massive fundamental changes behind the devices we use. Scott Fulton, who covered epic changes in 1990 and 2000, shines a spotlight backward on the under-appreciated platforms that made these changes possible, and the people who created them.
Ann Livermore, of HP's Technology Solutions Group, discusses the company's plan to support a fully automated, power-efficient, low-cost data centre
Michael Dell is betting big on scale and a model that he argues can be nimble. HPE CEO Meg Whitman says you can't have it all so focus on speed and innovation.
Software vendor CA plans to move its Melbourne-based antivirus labs to a new facility after exhausting the space and energy resources at its current location -- by consuming as much power as an average metal-welding factory.CA's antivirus lab currently looks, in the words of the company's vice president, development, Eugene Dozortsev, like a "scene from Space Odyssey 2001".
ZDNet.com.au took a tour backstage to see the hardware needed to run a large conference.