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Living on the edge: 5 reasons why edge services are critical to your resiliency strategy

As enterprise organizations look to extend their corporate digital channel strategies involving websites with rich media and personalized content, it is vital to have a strong resiliency strategy.

Jun 8, 2018 5 mins

Backup and Recovery Cloud Computing Networking

Network-intelligence platforms, cloud fuel a run on faster Ethernet

At 45 years old, Ethernet, the ubiquitous networking technology, is having a banner year in the data center where in the first quarter alone it's recorded the strongest year-over-year revenue growth in more than five years, and 100G Ethernet port shi

Jun 7, 2018 4 mins

Cisco Systems Data Center Networking

How mainframes put muscle behind autonomous data maintenance software

With the muscle and processing power of the mainframe, autonomous troubleshooting software can handle the drudgery so the DBA can plug into their human ingenuity.

Jun 7, 2018 3 mins

Data Center System Management

Intel Optane, the go-between for memory and storage

Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules, a class of memory and storage that stores frequently accessed data in its memory rather than forcing the server to fetch it from a hard disk.

Jun 6, 2018 3 mins

Data Center Intel

IBM strengthens mainframe cloud services with CA’s help

IBM and CA have teamed up to achieve better performing applications for private, hybrid and multicloud operations.

Jun 6, 2018 3 mins

Cloud Computing Data Center IBM

Your hardware order is ready. Do you want cables with that?

Cabling is as important as hardware. So, the next time you purchase hardware, pre-owned or new, remember to give the same consideration to the cables you purchase.

Jun 5, 2018 4 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center Networking

Increased programmability brings more options to networks

Arista’s 7170 programmable network switch with Barefoot Tofino silicon enables customers to deploy one system in multiple ways.

Jun 5, 2018 5 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center Networking

BMC retools its service management offerings for AI, cloud era

The Helix Cognitive Service Management suite will run on AWS, Azure and Google, as well private clouds.

Jun 5, 2018 5 mins

Application Performance Management Cloud Computing Data Center

Windows Server 2019 embraces SDN

Software-defined networking in Windows Server 2019 includes virtual network peering and encryption, auditing, and IPv6 support.

Jun 5, 2018 4 mins

Microsoft Operating Systems SDN

SDNs and NFV are complementary and core components of modernized networks

Software-defined networking and network functions virtualization both untie tasks and functions from hardware and provide agility, one for the network itself, the other for network services..

Jun 5, 2018 6 mins

SDN Server Virtualization Virtualization