Data Center

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Why did Docker acquire container company Unikernal Systems?

Docker, the business (as opposed to the eponymously named open source project) is all about articulating a future of disposable infrastructure. Their acquisition of Unikernal Systems is all part of the plan.

Review: Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4

HPE and Affirmed have lassos to herd virtualized services

Companies unveil products to manage NFV environments

What does an Oracle audit look like? This one certainly wasn’t pretty

More than 233,089 pages of documentation later, Mars Inc. finally got relief

Data center outages increasingly caused by DDoS

While overall unplanned data center outages have decreased, those that were the result of targeted DDoS attacks have skyrocketed.

Puppet Labs pulls the strings for $22 million in cash

Puppet and its competitors are in a mad dash for growth. The prize? Being the vendor of dominance in the IT automation space.

Dell serves up its own disaggregated OS

Linux-based OS10 designed to meld switches, servers, storage into a software-defined data center

Memory that learns could help tomorrow’s intelligent computers

Knowm hopes its new memristors will lead to new types of computers

Trump unleashes his anger about Apple and tech

Trump’s path to increasing jobs is via tariffs