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China may soon have half of the world's supercomputers
The U.S. dominates in total supercomputing performance, but lags behind China in the overall number of supercomputers. U.S. x86 vendors sell many of the chips used in these systems, but ARM may soon be giving them a run for their money.
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Organizations increase research on water-based cooling options
Despite concerns around water-based cooling technology, organizations are developing new hardware setups that rely on fjords and oceans to effectively cool dense server racks.
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Safely decommission your data center hardware
Asset tracking, information logging and security measures should all be a part of hardware decommissioning. Don't miss a step with these considerations.
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4 KPIs to use for edge computing dashboards
If you want to track edge deployment activity, look at storage, network and processing resources to guide workload configuration and maintenance needs.
Free Guide: 5 Ways IT Infrastructure Automation Can Ease Your Day-to-Day
For IT admins, the maintenance of networking, storage and compute is an overwhelming task -- especially as data center technology becomes more complex. Fortunately, automation can help ease the burden of tedious tasks, but how exactly? Our expert explains 5 ways IT infrastructure automation lessens the load for data center teams.
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A guide to effective HCI selection
IT execs must evaluate an organization's current on-prem and cloud setup before selecting a hyper-converged offering to avoid security holes, disjointed workflows and poor user experience.
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Open19 project expands open source use cases
Open19 is working with vendors to make hardware for its open source infrastructure. The goal is to support a growing number of off-premises use cases, such as edge computing.
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Cloud management, AI top necessary admin skills for 2019
As data centers become more software-based, admins should prepare themselves by learning about the cloud, containers, DevOps and artificial intelligence.
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Linux servers Manage
Settings to keep your FTP servers safe
If you still use FTP servers in your organization, use IP address whitelists, login restrictions and data encryption -- and just a few command prompts -- to keep them secure.
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How much do you know about cloud tech and colocation?
Colocation or cloud? Data centers have plenty of expansion options beyond building a new facility. Learn about each option -- and test your knowledge -- with this quiz.
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Top considerations for an IaaS contact
As you expand your infrastructure, you might use service providers for certain components. Make sure you get a comprehensive SLA that addresses responsibilities, costs and security.
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Organizations increase research on water-based cooling options
Despite concerns around water-based cooling technology, organizations are developing new hardware setups that rely on fjords and oceans to effectively cool dense server racks.
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4 KPIs to use for edge computing dashboards
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How much do you know about cloud tech and colocation?
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Pick the ideal infrastructure as a service provider
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3 ways to secure your SDDC
If you want to build a foundation for secure operations in your SDDC, software patches, account privileges and encryption should all be part of your security framework.
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Commands to improve performance on Linux hosts
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Open source, AIOps top list of 2019 data center tech
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Top challenges of edge computing deployment
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Top considerations for an IaaS contact
As you expand your infrastructure, you might use service providers for certain components. Make sure you get a comprehensive SLA that addresses responsibilities, costs and security.
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Safely decommission your data center hardware
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Settings to keep your FTP servers safe
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free cooling
Free cooling is an approach to lowering the air temperature in a building or data center by using naturally cool air or water instead of mechanical refrigeration.
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How much do you know about cloud tech and colocation?
Colocation or cloud? Data centers have plenty of expansion options beyond building a new facility. Learn about each option -- and test your knowledge -- with this quiz.
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UPS
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is a device that allows a computer to keep running for at least a short time when the primary power source is lost.
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Pivotal's IPO highlights concerns about Dell's debt resolution
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China may soon have half of the world's supercomputers
The U.S. dominates in total supercomputing performance, but lags behind China in the overall number of supercomputers. U.S. x86 vendors sell many of the chips used in these systems, but ARM may soon be giving them a run for their money.
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IT infrastructure management and planning
Moving workloads to the public cloud: A matter of trust
Many corporate IT users are flocking to the cloud, but a majority surprisingly remain reluctant to migrate their on-premises mission-critical workloads to a public cloud.
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IT infrastructure management and planning
U.S. to hit exascale in 2021, possibly after China
The race to build exascale supercomputers is a project of big governments -- China, Japan, the European Union and the U.S. Initial systems are planned in the 2020 to 2021 time frame.
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