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• April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15

  Data center outages lead to better resiliency

  When time-sensitive businesses such as Bloomberg experience an outage, there are lessons IT managers learn that can improve data center resiliency.

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  New data center cooling systems slowly displace CRAC

  As CRAC remains a top data center cooling option, cheaper and more environmentally friendly options will continue to emerge.

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  IT shops share hyper-converged infrastructure experiences

  Converged and hyper-converged infrastructure users say the bundled architecture changes daily operations in the data center.

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  The data center SSD takeover is well underway

  The future of hard disks grows bleaker by the day, with giant SSD storage densities, outdated RAID algorithms and faster interconnects ushering in flash domination.

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  Vendors race to provide big data infrastructure

  Enterprise big data workloads demand a lot from storage and network bandwidth. Storage, cloud and as-a-service vendors are developing the infrastructure to support them.

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• April 03, 2015 03 Apr'15

  Wells Fargo continues massive data center consolidation

  Since merging with Wachovia in 2009, Wells Fargo has closed 100 data centers, decreasing its risk profile and reducing its carbon footprint.

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Quick guide to what's inside new hyper-converged systems

  A spate of new converged and hyper-converged systems give IT shops a potent combination of flash storage and pre-integration.

• March 16, 2015 16 Mar'15

  Data center managers struggle to fill Linux admin jobs

  Linux talent is in high demand, with organizations willing to pay big bucks for those with the right qualifications. Do you have what it takes?

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  IT justifies hyper-converged infrastructure costs

  Converged and hyper-converged infrastructure can be pricey, but IT shops that use these all-in-one boxes see long-term cost benefits.

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  IBM Watson looks to AlchemyAPI to boost its appeal

  IBM acquired cognitive computing provider AlchemyAPI in the hopes it can whip up an application elixir that gives Watson new life.

• March 03, 2015 03 Mar'15

  Blade server cost, performance guide purchasing decision

  The TechTarget Server Hardware Survey reveals how data center pros buy blade servers, and what they plan to purchase in the next year.

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  What NFV vendors are currently on the market?

  Many data centers are on the path to NFV. How are the NFV standards and vendor offerings guiding -- or challenging -- implementation?

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Network function virtualization unifies the data center

  Network function virtualization is shaking up the networking status quo in large data center environments.

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  Real pros and cons in the COTS server decision

  Weed out the truth about COTS servers and legacy hardware and see why fear of change in the data center is a major hurdle to overcome.

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Five IT infrastructure projects to tackle in 2015

  The right upgrades are essential to the ongoing, timely delivery of critical IT services -- if the infrastructure falls behind, so does the enterprise.