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• Open source strategies bring benefits, but don't rush in

  Before your organization can reap the benefits of open source, it's important to understand your options and map out a plan that will guarantee success. Continue Reading

• Software-defined memory spurs mix of IT challenges, opportunities

  The expanding role of NVDIMM and DRAM and the emergence of software-defined memory will bring more flexibility to enterprise data centers -- but not without some challenges. Continue Reading

• Build a resilient mainframe system with redundancy, automation

  To ensure your mainframe is fault-tolerant, resilient and ready to support a growing number of apps, follow these best practices for hardware allocation, automation and more. Continue Reading

• CMDB (configuration management database)

  A configuration management database (CMDB) is a database that contains all relevant information about the hardware and software components used in an organization's IT services and the relationships between those components. Continue Reading

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time boosts app performance

  Some organizations require real-time support for critical applications that run on Linux. What are some options to achieve that on a SUSE distribution? Continue Reading

• Dodge a data center outage with proper power design, commissioning

  Data center outages continue to plague IT. Perform data center commissioning or an audit and have a solid power design to protect your organization from a crash.Continue Reading

• Follow these steps to assign vSphere permissions and roles

  Admins can use vSphere permissions to assign VM controls to different IT groups within their enterprise. Follow the networking example below to get started.Continue Reading

• IT infrastructure automation lessens the load for data center teams

  Network, storage and server management can be overwhelming and time-consuming tasks. Evaluate automation techniques to simplify everything from documentation to system uptime.Continue Reading

• Four must-have skill sets for SDDC architecture

  A learning curve for IT staff -- especially around automation, scripting and APIs -- is a major hurdle during SDDC deployment. Is your data center team ready to make the move?Continue Reading

• Four options to optimize SSD performance in the data center

  As more organizations adopt SSDs, practices for storage optimization need to evolve. Learn how tactics, such as disabling defragmentation and using the write cache, can play a role.Continue Reading

• Navigate RHEL support options in the public cloud

  Differences in cost and vendor support make it tough to choose a public cloud platform for RHEL deployment. Compare options from Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and AWS.Continue Reading

• A handy server maintenance checklist for modern data centers

  Server maintenance prevents big problems and keeps everything running at its best. Make time for these simple checks on server hardware and software.Continue Reading

• IT still needs the tried-and-true on-premises data center

  Despite a rapidly changing IT industry driven mostly by cloud, the on-premises data center is here to stay, according to a survey by the Uptime Institute.Continue Reading

• SUSE Manager 3 provides new features via Salt integration

  A major change in SUSE Manager 3 is that it's primarily built on Salt, rather than Spacewalk. Learn what else has changed, and how IT can take advantage of the latest release.Continue Reading

• Storage technologies evolve toward a data-processing platform

  Emerging technologies such as containers, HCI and big data have blurred the lines between compute and storage platforms, breaking down traditional IT silos.Continue Reading