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In This Issue: Fall Festivals and Tacos | Cisco Stackwise-480 Stacking Cable | Understanding Server CPU Specs | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Fall Festivals and Tacos
Happy Monday!
On Friday, Chris mentioned it’s the season for fall festivals. It just happened that Flowery Branch had its fall festival on Saturday and though the temperatures still were a little high, it felt like we were kicking off the PSL season (Pumpkin Spice Latte for those unfamiliar). The kids had a great time running around playing games and jumping in bounce houses, while I went around sampling food from the food trucks. There was a lemonade stand that made the freshest lemonade, that was the real winner on this hot day.
One thing I noticed was some of the product marketing on the food trucks, and while I try to disconnect from work, it’s like something that I can’t really fully turn off. There was one example that was pretty extreme, there were two taco trucks that were relatively close together, and one had a long line, and one didn’t, but there was a major difference between the two. The one that was doing quite well had their food truck branding with bright red colors set up and had pictures and details of each food items (and I think this was the key here), while the other was serving food out of a plain box truck (with no branding), no pictures of food, just an a-frame sign out in front that literally said “tacos $3” and “quesadillas $12” and no other details. I’m sure their tacos may have been delicious, but I think myself and others avoided that plain truck, because there weren’t any easily accessible details or any type of branding on the truck. What’s your restaurant’s name? What type of tacos? What kind of quesadillas? Is that all you serve?
Branding is super important, but so is easily letting your customers know what you have and what they are going to get. That’s why at CK I strive to give as much information about our products to our customers as possible so that they aren’t stuck in a plain box truck situation. I hope you have a great Monday and a great last week of September!
Cris
Product Spotlights & Updates
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Learning Center Article – Understanding Server CPU Specs
Servers are essential for so many business applications these days. If you rely on your servers for anything, then you tend to rely on them for everything.
When you’re shopping for servers (or looking to upgrade your hardware), you’re going to have to compare a lot of different specifications, and one of the most important components to analyze is the central processing unit (CPU).
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Hollywood scribes initiated a work stoppage in early May as negotiations broke down with studios including Disney, Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery. Talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers resumed last week after months of starts and stops.The WGA and AMPTP are still drafting the final contract language.
- Bird has reported that its stock is being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange because of its inability to lift its market cap to $15 million. The scooter company was once valued at $2.5 billion by private investors.
- Amazon reported it will invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence firm Anthropic and take a minority ownership position in the company. The move underscores Amazon’s aggressive AI push as it looks to keep pace with rivals such as Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google.
- WWE’s “Friday Night SmackDown” will return to NBCUniversal’s USA Network in October 2024. The deal comes out to an average of $287 million per year, a total value of over $1.4 billion.