Data Center

Unix tip: Coloring your world with LS_COLORS

What’s with application monitoring? Another company picks up a monster funding round

It seems that monitoring is all the rage. Wavefront’s huge Series B is an indication of this.

80/20 rule of network equipment: Stay on budget and innovate

If you have existing equipment that is perfectly adequate for the functions at hand, extend their useful life and redirect that budget to other areas

MongoDB 3.4 accelerates digital transformation in the enterprise

Can MongoDB take on the big SQL database contenders?

Aligned Energy changes the data center model

Data centers are a big, expensive and increasingly important part of the fabric of technology. A new center opening soon looks to change the cost models in the industry.

Broadcom bids billions for Brocade in order to break it up

Broadcom wants Brocade's Fibre Channel business, but not its faster-growing IP networking activities

CEO’s message a jolt to IT workers facing layoffs

IT employees at insurer expect to train replacements as work shifts to India-based IT services contractor

Inside a hyperscale data center (how different is it?)

CIO.com took a tour of Microsoft’s hyperscale data center in Quincy, Washington. What we saw shows how far cloud data centers have come in a decade.

Cisco pits modular storage servers against public clouds

The modular S-Series servers let enterprises mix and match storage and computing for flexibility

A peek inside Microsoft Azure’s open source server and rack designs

Project Olympus has been donated to the Open Compute Project