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AI, analytics drive Dell EMC storage, server upgrades

New storage, servers and hyperconvergence products debut at Dell Technologies World

May 1, 2018 7 mins

Rackspace offers on-premises ‘cloud’ and a bare-metal cloud offering

With Rackspace's Private Cloud Everywhere, customers can have a managed VMware Private Cloud as a Service wherever they want it.

Apr 30, 2018 3 mins

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Somehow, AWS and cloud growth continues to accelerate

Amazon leads cloud vendors to even faster growth at huge scale -- is there anything left for data centers?

Apr 30, 2018 3 mins

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How to achieve and sustain peak performance in your data center

Star athletes have training methodologies; data center managers can have their own principles to ensure optimal performance: the DCM10 method.

Apr 26, 2018 5 mins

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Cisco reinforces storage with new switches, mgmt. software

New MDS model switches include redundant components and multiple power options, as well as support for FibreChannel-NVMe

Apr 26, 2018 3 mins

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Google’s Partner Interconnect connects SMBs to its data centers

Google is partnering with ISPs to provide a direct connection between a SMB data center and Google's hybrid cloud platform.

Apr 26, 2018 2 mins

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Hyperconvergence breathes new life into desktop virtualization

Virtual desktop infrastructure (or VDI) has been an intriguing idea for a long time. We look at the pros and cons of VDI and whether the emergence of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) will finally make implementing virtual desktops feasible.

Apr 26, 2018 6 mins

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Cyxtera offers on-demand data center provisioning software

With the Cyxtera Extensible Data Center (CXD) platform, customers can quickly extend their data center into a colocation center as needed, letting them provision compute in minutes or hours.

Apr 25, 2018 3 mins

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Juniper multicloud management software targets enterprise data centers

Contrail Enterprise Multicloud builds on years of Juniper's work on software-defined networking

Apr 25, 2018 4 mins

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Is Facebook looking to build its own data center chips?

A job listing on Facebook has some speculating that the social media company is building a team to design its own semiconductors, ending their reliance on Intel.

Apr 19, 2018 3 mins

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