Interesting Snippets from 2012-07-17

• Accelerate to Green IT - A practical guide to application migration and re-hosting

  Many large application development and maintenance accounts, thinking of migrating core applications and databases to a new environment, are at a loss as to where to start, how to plan and implement the migration, and how to avoid pitfalls in the process. A lack of awareness of standard methodologies or guidelines adds difficulty in the formation of an estimate for quickly and effectively migrating applications from one platform to another.

  This article explores the highly successful IBM Project Big Green where the objective was to consolidate approximately 3900 IBM internal servers onto about 30 System z Linux environments. The objective of this article is to introduce the overall approach followed, share the best practices and tools, and provide the initial pointers to server consolidation and virtualization space.

• First look: Excel 2013 | Ars Technica

  t should come as no surprise, then, that most of the changes seen in the Excel 2013 preview (aside from the Metro-ish new theme applied to the user interface) are all about data analysis. The top new features—a pattern-recognition auto-fill, a new set of interactive chart tools, and a much easier and accelerated way to create Excel’s analytical Pivot Tables—are all aimed at converting raw data into something easier to analyze.

• Hello, Savants! From 0 to C workshop Hello, Savants! [studio]

  Created by Ubi de Feo, “from 0 to C” is a new series of workshops that aim at teaching programming using a more creative and human approach.

  Through the use of tangible, hand-made objects, I try to establish a clear understanding of how a computer works and what a programming language actually is: nothing but an abstraction of what we can do as humans.

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