Data Center

Sensors designed to detect overloaded cables, prevent fires

New sensors can smell overloaded cables.

IDC predicts bad news for old-school IT as CEOs embrace digital transformation

CEOs are making the ‘digital transformation’ part of their business strategy, which means big changes for IT departments, according to IDC’s analysis.

Wait: Did I just detect a flicker of personality in the enterprise IT industry?

Founders and top execs from firms like Actifio, Plexxi and 128 Technology get colorful

The future of virtualization: Don’t forget the so-called ‘old’

Virtualization is currently a hot topic, along with "the future." But what do discussions of the future usually accomplish in tech?

Self-healing gel breakthrough could lead to flexible electronics

An electrical repairing gel that doesn't need any human intervention to function could be used to help circuits become more robust in the future.

After the disaster: Cloud recovery becomes DRaaStic

PaaS down? IaaS unreachable? Internal assets literally under water? Recovery may be available. It's called Disaster Recovery-A-A-Service, or DRaaS, and as every organization is built differently, so is its DRaaS.

Hosted bare metal emerges as alternative to IaaS cloud

When a VM in a public cloud isn’t good enough, some turn to physical servers

Windows Server 2016 adoption will be a marathon, not a sprint

Most businesses plan to wait at least a year to adopt Microsoft's new server OS

Dropbox to add European data storage next year

It will also open two new offices as part of a stepped-up EU push

Quantum dots could bridge gap between electronic and quantum computers