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Hyperconverged infrastructure gets its own Gartner magic quadrant

HCI is winning over enterprises drawn to its potential to ease management, streamline deployment of new workloads and optimize costs. The market analysis includes hardware vendors and software players such as VMware and Microsoft.

Mar 16, 2018 7 mins

Data Center Virtualization

A new telepresence robot takes the stage

Ava from Ava Robotics, a startup with deep technical ties to iRobot, brings her charming personality to the telepresence marketplace.

Mar 13, 2018 3 mins

Cisco Systems Technology Industry Videoconferencing

11 ways to stabilize your infrastructure

Manage your people, processes and technology the right way, and you’ll sleep better at night.

Mar 13, 2018 6 mins

Data Center Networking

Why a bare-metal cloud provider might be just what you need

Cloud services that provide nothing but server hardware can help solve application-migration, performance, customization and hardware-access problems.

Mar 8, 2018 6 mins

Cloud Computing Hybrid Cloud Virtualization

VMware tackles complexity of multi-cloud environments

VMware has expanded its portfolio of cloud tools to help enterprises improve the manageability of their public cloud and on-premises environments. At the same time, VMware announced the first global expansion of VMware Cloud on AWS, its joint hybrid

Mar 8, 2018 5 mins

Cloud Computing Data Center Virtualization

New tech harvests electricity out of thin air

Internet of Things sensors and communications gear could be powered by air temperature fluctuations, inventors from MIT say.

Mar 8, 2018 3 mins

Internet of Things Sustainable IT

Cisco bolsters Tetration for better cloud, workload security

Cisco’s Tetration analytics upgrade focuses on protecting data center workloads and detects potential application vulnerabilities.

Mar 7, 2018 5 mins

Data Center Private Cloud

Startup ZincFive makes old battery technology new again

ZincFive says the nickel-zinc-style batteries in its new UPS are more power efficient, less hazardous to the environment and physically safer.

Mar 6, 2018 2 mins

Data Center

Submarine cable boom fueled by new tech, soaring demand

Cloud, content and interconnection demand brings major subsea growth.

Mar 6, 2018 6 mins

Data Center Networking

Companies ready to spend on IT hardware again

The recent IT spending slowdown, caused by enterprises assessing cloud computing services, is about to end, Morgan Stanley says. Investors could see double-digit earnings growth from the IT hardware sector in 2018.

Mar 1, 2018 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center Hybrid Cloud