Data Center

Study: Apps move rapidly to the cloud, data not so much

Don’t keep squandering one of your greatest storage assets: metadata

Metadata for every single file in your enterprise is sitting un- and underused, but it’s one of IT’s greatest assets.

IBM cranks up flash storage for greater capacity and speed

IBM says its new all-flash systems provide three times the storage capacity in the same space as the current FlashSystem 900 and reduce data capacity costs by 60%.

Reimagining IT networks with reconfigurable computing solutions

Looking at the reconfigurable computing technologies that can keep up with data growth.

What is virtualization? Far more than just virtual machines

Virtualization has grown into many areas including virtual desktops, virtual storage, virtual memory and more.

After virtualization and cloud, what’s left on premises?

Extreme virtualization leaves just switches, access points, secure routers

ThousandEyes’ Device Layer helps solve application problems faster

Device Layer provides the health status of network devices, enabling network operations teams to deliver better application and service performance.

HPE gives up the battle for tier 1 data center customers

HPE bows to the reality that ‘white box’ vendors have it beat. It will no longer try to sell commodity hardware to tier 1 customers such as Amazon, Facebook and Google.

Intel introduces an AI-oriented processor

The Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) is expected to help companies develop new classes of AI applications. It is expected to be on sale before the end of the year.

To back up or not to back up — your data has the answer

The data you back up depends on knowing which KPIs are important to understanding your company’s performance. Then include that data in your disaster recovery plan.