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Wake Forest assistant basketball coach arrested after single punch kills marketing exec in N.Y.
A Microsoft Private Cloud enables businesses to balance the benefits of cloud computing with the benefits of a private data center. Building and maintaining a Microsoft® Cloud Platform environment can be challenging, though, and most organizations don’t have the resources to effectively manage the environment. This white paper examines how businesses can address those challenges and leverage the benefits of a Microsoft Private Cloud by using Rackspace to host and manage their Microsoft Cloud Platform environment.
When you’re designing a data center, server room or network closet, deciding which racks to deploy and how to configure them should be at the top of your list. Just like building a house, the surface details may steal the spotlight, but it’s the quality of the underlying foundation that makes the difference between success and frustration. Racks organize IT equipment, such as servers and network switches, into standardized assemblies that make efficient use of space and other resources. Depending on the options you choose, they can also improve power protection, cooling, cable management, device management, physical security, mobility, ease of installation and protection from harsh environmental conditions. Choosing the right racks and configuring them to match your needs will ensure that your IT equipment operates reliably and efficiently, saving your organization from costly downtime and other needless expenses.
With Rackspace Managed Security and Compliance Assistance for GCP, Rackspace is now a leading managed security services provider that offers services on all of the major public cloud platforms. In IDC’s 2017 CloudView Survey of over 6,000 enterprise respondents, nearly 50 percent indicated concerns about security in the cloud, and about 40 percent cited superior security capabilities available from service providers as a major incentive to move to the cloud.¹ With RMS, Rackspace security experts help customers with strategic planning for best practice multi-cloud security, tactical day-to-day security monitoring and threat analysis to deter, detect and respond to potential threats around the clock.
Whether you’re already a Google customer or simply getting started with the public cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is an aordable, reliable, innovative and intuitive cloud solution. Rackspace can help you accelerate innovation and cost savings by taking over the intensive dayto-day operations of GCP — letting you focus on achieving your core business objectives while optimizing the performance of your applications. Rackspace works with customers to identify the scope and criticality of their applications and determine the service level that best addresses their needs. To discover how, download this whitepaper today.
Whether you’re already a Google customer or simply getting started with the public cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is an affordable, reliable, innovative and intuitive cloud solution. Rackspace can help you accelerate innovation and cost savings by taking over the intensive dayto-day operations of GCP — letting you focus on achieving your core business objectives while optimizing the performance of your applications.
Rackspace Quick Start for Google Cloud Platform helps enterprises expedite their migration to Google Cloud using proven design, automation, and migration methodologies—all executed by Rackspace experts who have deployed more than a million applications into the cloud. By partnering with your company’s cross-functional leaders, our professional adoption team will fast-track your journey to the cloud—typically moving your first application(s) to the cloud within the first few weeks of the program. This annual review includes an assistance with a disaster recovery (DR) simulation, audit of patch levels, and upl eveling the deployment tools to ensure they align with the infrastructure that may have evolved since deployment.
Cet article explique certaines causes de blocage des capacités d'alimentation, de refroidissement et d'espace dans les centres de données en collocation et comment la distribution d'énergie des racks haute densité, le confinement d'air et d'autres pratiques améliorent la disponibilité et l'efficacité. Des exemples de politiques d'utilisation acceptables réglant ces problèmes sont présentés.
Register for this free virtual event on Thursday, May 27th with the best and latest online marketing educational content including best practices, case studies, research and more. You can expect: Seven tracks covering all major domain of online marketing, including Social Media, Search Engine Marketing and Optimization, Web Analytics, Mobile, Email and Demand Generation; Content for all skill levels from the online novice to the eMarketing expert, there are sessions that will benefit all corporate, brand and online marketers; Online marketing education kiosks and learning centers provide you additional access to 1-on-1 consultations, whitepapers and webcasts; Live Q&A at the end of each session. Speakers and expert practitioners further explain the tactics learned in the session, answering questions and providing live support. Virtual Peer Networking gives you the opportunity to network, collaborate and share ideas with strategic marketers from leading companies around the world, so register now!
This white paper discusses the issues making data center cooling more challenging than ever and explains why starting the data center design process with the racks rather than the room can help businesses reduce energy consumption, increase capacity and optimize floor space utilization.
Santikos Entertainment relies on Rackspace’s security experts and certified AWS engineers to deliver a movie-going experience that fits the digital age.
This white paper aims to help businesses address these fundamental questions, based on a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modeling methodology built from Rackspace’s extensive experience working with IT organizations of all sizes, in order to make an informed ROI assessment.
Learn how NetScaler has kept pace with industry changes and is winning the hearts and minds of IT leaders.
Für den Vergleich mit VxRail können äquivalente Intel x86 Serverhardware und Speicher von anderen Anbietern als selbst ausgewählte DIY-HCI-Lösung erworben werden. Im folgenden TCO-Vergleich besteht unser Hauptziel darin, eine der VxRail Lösung entsprechende Konfiguration sicherzustellen. Wir haben über die Website für Dell PowerEdge-Rackserver2 die erforderliche Konfiguration und den Preis für Serverhardware, Service/Gewährleistung und Professional Services (PS) ermittelt.
Read how Citrix NetScaler 10, the latest version of one of the industry’s most respected ADCs, is the first such appliance to support active-active clustering.
IT transformation is never easy – being a continuous endeavor with no single, definite endpoint – which makes the CIO role in the future of enterprise IT, more important and more difficult. Our e-book, The CIO’s IT Transformation Guide, helps CIOs avoid known pitfalls with a tour of the Rackspace framework to explore IT transformation results in the trenches. With examples of real-world successes and challenges taken from within Rackspace, and the companies that have journeyed with Rackspace, this is a must-have resource for the modern CIO.
Most companies have only put limited effort toward the system architecture that surrounds the flash memory modules. In this white paper, Storage Switzerland focuses on the importance of architecture design in solid state storage systems.
In the following sections we will discuss the basic concepts, considerations and approaches in designing, selecting and deploying the appropriate rack PDU for typical data center applications.
In this final piece on server virtualization and SSD, Storage Switzerland discusses the power of performance, specifically, the dramatic impact that latent-free storage can make on the virtual environment. Read on to find out more!
DIDIER DROGBA has backed Jose Mourinho to make a "special" return to Chelsea - and hinted he would be tempted to join him at Stamford Bridge.
The Real Madrid boss is expected to leave in the summer and Galatasaray striker Drogba - who was one of Mourinho's first signings at Chelsea - believes The Special One is the perfect man to replace interim-boss Rafael Benitez.
Drogba said: "I don't know the other options but the only man I know is Jose. If there's a possibility for him to come back I think it would be great for the club.
"We know he's got something special. He creates something that brings all the players together and a special feeling like a family. We are like a family with him.
"We can go to war - we love this expression. We can go to war with him and that's what makes his team win."
Drogba won two Premier League titles under Mourinho in his first spell in charge before the boss left in 2007.
The pair will meet again tonight when Madrid host Galatasaray in the Champions League. Although Drogba insists he is committed to the Turkish club, he could be tempted to return to Stamford Bridge if he was given another chance to work with Mourinho.
"Why not?" Drogba said. "It would be interesting.
"But for now I'm really happy here and I want to go until the end of this experience and see what I can bring to this club.
"This club has more than 25 million fans all around the world - it's a big club with big potential. They can work on this and that's why they've signed big players like Wesley Sneijder and like me.
"I think the team can create a big surprise in this Champions League because we are ambitious, we are passionate and we have a good team."
Five states, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and Rhode Island, will hold Republican presidential primaries today, and although there are four names on the ballot, it isn’t much of a contest. We hope people participate, because today’s primary still represents an opportunity for Republicans.
Five states, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and Rhode Island, will hold Republican presidential primaries today, and although there are four names on the ballot, it isn’t much of a contest.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee, is expected to easily win all five contests.
What’s unfortunate is that turnout at polling places is expected to be considerably smaller than that of the last two GOP presidential primaries in 2000 and 2008, both of which offered far more competitive races that attracted upwards of 40 percent of eligible voters. Election officials estimate that today’s turnout will only attract between 15 and 20 percent of GOP voters — if that much.
It would have been nice if today’s primary was more exciting, but we hope people participate, because today’s primary still represents an opportunity for Republicans.
It’s a chance to show support for Romney and his position on the issues that will frame this year’s presidential election. It’s also a chance to express any displeasure and send a message that there’s still much work to be done to solidify the GOP base.
Those who work with separating couples have to know the signs when acrimony risks spilling over into tragedy.
PORTLAND — Maine has recently experienced two high-profile domestic violence tragedies, both murder-suicides.
Nathaniel Gordon of Winslow killed his wife Sarah Gordon on June 6, in front of their two children, ages 8 and 9.
One week later, on June 13, Steven Lake of Dexter shot his estranged wife, Amy Lake, and their two children, Cody, 13, and Monica, 12.
For all of us who work in the field of domestic relations, these two cases represent our worst fears. We work with people in conflict every day. At times the anger, grief and frustration are unmanageable.
We try to employ and teach conflict resolution techniques. We encourage mediated solutions, compromise, and setting aside one’s own desires for the sake of a peaceful compromise.
But we must be mindful that where fear, intimidation, control, threats and violence are part of the relationship, the moment of separation and divorce is likely to be the most dangerous.
From the outside, it is difficult to distinguish between a what is a normally difficult divorce and one that has the potential for tragedy.
As professionals working in this field, we have to take all threats seriously, and use best efforts to assess the risk factors that exist.
Where there is a power imbalance, where one party exerts power and control over the other, or where one party is in fear for his or her own safety or the safety of the children, it is not reasonable to expect the two parties to be able to participate equally in conflict resolution.
The typical encouragement for co-parenting after divorce may not be realistic, wise or safe after a divorce involving domestic violence.
The law lists 19 different factors to be taken into account when a court makes decisions about children, including their age, their relationship with each parent and the parents’ ability to cooperate with each other.
Not one of the factors includes what’s fair to the parents. The children are not property to be divided, and time with them is not to be counted out like coins.
Much of the anger and venom in the most difficult cases comes when parents lose sight of this fact and instead focus on who “wins” and who “loses” custody of the children.
The court must try to craft an order that creates the best situation for the children, not what suits the parent’s needs and desires.
Before the judge even gets to that question, however, the court must first look at the safety and well-being of the children.
Where there is domestic violence or the threat of domestic violence, Maine law directs the court to act to protect the children’s safety.
All of us, our whole community, suffers when children are exposed to the conflict and violence between parents. It is a trauma that leaves lifelong scars.
The grief and loss, the anger and violence, get passed down from parent to child.
We all have a responsibility, including the courts, attorneys, therapists, teachers, pediatricians, day care providers, parents and grandparents, friends and neighbors. We all must be clear that this behavior will not be tolerated.
The message must be heard loud and clear that each person has a right to self-determination, and if a spouse or partner chooses to leave a relationship or end a marriage, the other spouse or partner must respect that choice.
The most disturbing fact in Steven Lake’s murder of his wife, Amy, and their two children in Dexter was the suggestion that somehow if Amy had been more reasonable with visitation, this would not have occurred.
This is nonsense. Amy Lake is not in any way responsible for Steven Lake’s decision to shoot her and their children dead.
Suggesting that she was wrong to leave this man and to try to protect her children from him is absurd. It’s an attempt to find an excuse for these horrific acts.
We all need to be clear: There is no excuse for domestic violence.
The government of Gabon on Thursday announced a nationwide suspension of classes after high school students protested over plans to cut university grants.
“In its desire to calm the situation and listen to the public, the government of the republic has decided to suspend classes across the country,” Education Minister Michel Menga M’Essonne said in a statement.
In late March, a draft decree reduced access to state grants for aspiring university students, setting 19 as the maximum age for access to funds and requiring applicants to reach a relatively high mark in the school certificate exam — at least 12 points out of a maximum of 20.
Organisations representing high school students called on pupils to demonstrate peacefully on Monday, when a new term began, and to stay on the streets on subsequent days.
Thousands of youngsters protested in a number of towns, including hundreds in their school uniforms who paraded and chanted through downtown Libreville, escorted by police.
The reform would considerably reduce the number of students eligible to ask for the grant, which is worth some 83,000 CFA francs a month (127 euros / $143).
The ministry of higher education has published figures showing that 65 per cent of students awarded grants in 2017 on the strength of the grades of their baccalaureat — or high school certificate — were aged 20 or over.
Young protesters argued that the cutback would make them “grant orphans” and claimed they should benefit from the same rights as their parents and elders.
The government said it was “very attentive to the development of the social climate” and “preoccupied by this wave of discontent”, in the statement released Thursday.
On Monday, Prime Minister Julien Nkogue Bekale defended the planned change in front of the press, pointing notably to Gabon’s economic difficulties.
“The state and the government will make every effort to award grants to our brilliant students, but we’re not going to encourage mediocrity,” he said.
Gabon, a former French colony in Equatorial Africa, achieved a high standard of living on African terms funded primarily by oil and tropical hardwood exports, but the economy nosedived after the drop in crude oil prices in 2014.
In 2017, Gabon obtained financial help from the International Monetary Fund, in exchange for cuts in public spending.
A new infograph illustrates social media’s surge in popularity in the last three academic years.
Once regarded as a passing fad, social media is now an essential language that today’s college students—and officials—must learn in order to remain relevant and well-informed.
The University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently surveyed numerous four-year accredited U.S. colleges and universities to assess the use of social media in higher education.
The study’s findings are based on 456 interviews conducted between November to May of the 2010-11 academic year. UMass Dartmouth previously assessed social media findings for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 academic years.
This type of comparative data effectively illustrates a major upswing in the use of social media in higher education, the study’s authors note—something that administrators can benefit from understanding. UMass Dartmouth found that 100 percent of surveyed colleges and universities now are using some form of social media.
The survey infograph illustrates how universities use social media in multiple ways: in the classroom to inform students of announcements, in recruitment efforts, to reflect school pride, to improve professional development, and in general outreach efforts such as connecting alumni or informing students’ parents about university activities.
Given the grim prospects for resolving the crisis in Mali, North African governments will have to look South on security matters for years to come.
Youth protesters in Mauritania have grown increasingly bold in calling for political and social reforms and are likely to significantly affect the tone and direction of politics in the months ahead.
Most Mauritanian opposition leaders will boycott the June 6 presidential election, in which coup leader Muhammed Ould Abdel Aziz is ensured victory.
In his first post-victory press conference Mauritanian President-elect Sidi Ould Sheikh Abdullahi called for a broadly inclusive national unity government. He will indeed need a great deal of support to face Mauritania's many political and economic challenges.
Mauritania, an often-ignored country in the western periphery of the Arab world, surprised observers two years ago by undertaking one of the most forthcoming advances toward democracy in the region. Democratic reforms came as a result of a 2005 bloodless military coup led by Colonel Ely Ould Muhammad Vall. Vall demonstrated enlightened leadership by pledging to restore democracy.
A sighting of the butterfly known as the chequered swallowtail was a welcome discovery last month. Continually flying at about two metres over a small area of about 20 square metres in the North Gardens Wetlands near Lake Wendouree, the butterfly had clearly adopted a territory, which it seemed ready to defend from any rivals. No others were seen in the few minutes that this uncommon insect was observed in its self-imposed restricted territory. The chequered swallowtail is a dull yellow butterfly, larger than most, with a network of black lacy markings on its wings. This is where its chequered title comes from. Its wingspan is around 70mm. In the Ballarat area it appears to be a summer visitor in small numbers at Mt Warrenheip, where its foodplant - the dusky scurf-pea - grows, but sightings in other places are rare and spasmodic. Local records of the chequered swallowtail are within the period late October to mid-March. It is normally an inland butterfly, found in the arid and semi-arid regions. Observations in southern Australia are thought to be of individuals on southward migration after favourable seasons further north. At Mt Warrenheip it utilises “hill-topping” behaviour, with males flying around the top of the mount in defence of their territories. This behaviour is typical of several butterfly species, particularly those in the swallowtail group. Stubble burns sometimes attract a variety of hawks. Recent observations around Smeaton and Ullina have resulted in raptors such as the brown falcon, black falcon, black kite and whistling kite attending fires. One larger fire had 14 large raptors within its smoke, including nine black kites, five whistling kites and two black falcons. Where do these birds come from? One observer believes that the black kites and whistling kites, at least, may come from the Newstead area. Up to a dozen black kites have been seen. A black kite at a recent fire was seen with a quail as prey. Other birds sought would include smaller birds such as larks and pipits, as well as mice. Some of the smaller hawks, such as black-shouldered kites and nankeen kestrels, would take crickets. Another notable raptor seen in the same area is the spotted harrier, an uncommon visitor to open country in the Ballarat region. This and the black falcon have been sought by several local bird observers, but neither have been easy to locate. Finding them will probably be more difficult now that paddocks have bare burnt ground.
TAPESTRY: The chequered swallowtail is a beautifully-patterned butterfly and a rare visitor to the Lake Wendouree area.
A sighting of the butterfly known as the chequered swallowtail was a welcome discovery last month.
Continually flying at about two metres over a small area of about 20 square metres in the North Gardens Wetlands near Lake Wendouree, the butterfly had clearly adopted a territory, which it seemed ready to defend from any rivals.
No others were seen in the few minutes that this uncommon insect was observed in its self-imposed restricted territory.
The chequered swallowtail is a dull yellow butterfly, larger than most, with a network of black lacy markings on its wings. This is where its chequered title comes from. Its wingspan is around 70mm.
In the Ballarat area it appears to be a summer visitor in small numbers at Mt Warrenheip, where its foodplant - the dusky scurf-pea - grows, but sightings in other places are rare and spasmodic.
Local records of the chequered swallowtail are within the period late October to mid-March.
It is normally an inland butterfly, found in the arid and semi-arid regions. Observations in southern Australia are thought to be of individuals on southward migration after favourable seasons further north.
At Mt Warrenheip it utilises “hill-topping” behaviour, with males flying around the top of the mount in defence of their territories.
This behaviour is typical of several butterfly species, particularly those in the swallowtail group.
Stubble burns sometimes attract a variety of hawks. Recent observations around Smeaton and Ullina have resulted in raptors such as the brown falcon, black falcon, black kite and whistling kite attending fires.
One larger fire had 14 large raptors within its smoke, including nine black kites, five whistling kites and two black falcons.
Where do these birds come from? One observer believes that the black kites and whistling kites, at least, may come from the Newstead area. Up to a dozen black kites have been seen.

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