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The future of mainframes in the enterprise

Big iron has been a staple of enterprise data processing for half a century, but is the mainframe era coming to an end?

Oct 19, 2017 5 mins

Cisco AI-driven services help close widening IT skills gap

Cisco announced two services that use AI to address critical issues, freeing up IT professionals to learn new skills, modernize the infrastructure and drive innovation.

Oct 18, 2017 5 mins

Cisco Systems Data Center IT Skills and Training

First self-powered data center opens

Aruba S.p.A. operates its zero-impact data center using ‘a river of energy’ hydroelectric plant, solar panels and chilling underground water.

Oct 18, 2017 3 mins

Data Center Sustainable IT

Western Digital plans 40TB drives, but it’s still not enough

Data continues to grow faster than disk capacity.

Oct 17, 2017 3 mins

Big Data Computers and Peripherals Data Center

Turbonomic vs. VMware: Virtualization management tools compared

IT pros share their experiences working with Turbonomic and VMware vRealize Operations

Oct 16, 2017 6 mins

Data Center Virtualization

How to speed up IoT deployment: Give each device an identity

With all the IoT and EoT devices coming online, we need an automated way to connect them or face severe adoption bottlenecks.

Oct 12, 2017 5 mins

Data Center Internet of Things Security

Oracle leverages machine learning to manage, secure enterprise systems

Oracle Management Cloud suite provides real-time, proactive monitoring and outage prevention, and Oracle Identity SOC helps forecast, detect and resolve security threats.

Oct 10, 2017 3 mins

Application Performance Management Hybrid Cloud Oracle

The future of self-driving cars: New tech advances possibilities

Nvidia’s two announcements — a test fleet of autonomous delivery vehicles and the DRIVE PX AI platform — bring us closer to having self-driving cars.

Oct 10, 2017 5 mins

Data Center Internet of Things

IT spending increases for software-defined storage, on-demand services

Gartner and IDC reports show on-demand services, such as IaaS and PaaS, and software-defined storage are hot. Traditional on-premises hardware, not so much.

Oct 9, 2017 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals IaaS PaaS

How to avoid ‘the biggest rip-off in networking’

Gartner found companies overpay by 50% or more for optical receivers. Here’s how to avoid that.

Oct 9, 2017 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center Networking