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• August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16

  Hyper-convergence extends to new uses with all-flash options

  Flash storage has reached a crossroads, where lower prices and greater capacity have led a growing number of hyper-converged infrastructure products to include all-flash storage.

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Containers and Kubernetes ease OpenStack lifecycle management pain

  OpenStack has turned to Docker containers to help simplify its lifecycle management, as it also works to find ways to run containers itself.

• August 12, 2016 12 Aug'16

  Delta outage raises backup data center, power questions

  Another outage at an airline data center offers yet another lesson about the need to fail over to a backup data center and bounce back quickly after a power problem.

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  New open standard seeks home in the enterprise data center rack

  If the Open Compute Project is too big and scary for your enterprise, a new open standard for data center hardware has emerged to appeal to data centers big and small.

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  One type of server is growing in today's enterprise data center

  The density and flexibility offered by blade servers make them increasingly popular for IT pros inside an enterprise data center.

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• July 22, 2016 22 Jul'16

  Containers come to hyper-converged systems, but now what?

  For IT pros managing virtualized, bare-metal and containerized workloads in the data center, can hyper-converged infrastructure offer what's needed?

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  New DBMS products open the door for a once dormant market

  Start-ups are breathing new life into the DBMS market, as organizations look to manage unstructured data from social media, big data and the internet of things.

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  How composable infrastructure opens the door to infrastructure as code

  IT pros looking for on-premises hardware to help deliver DevOps may find it in composable infrastructure, which is starting to show up in enterprise data centers.

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  How HPE's The Machine could fuel hardware engines

  A new server architecture based around memory is still a work in progress, but IT pros and leaders at HPE see its value today coming from incremental advancements.

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  RHEL 8 promises relief from dependency hell, more integration

  With RHEL hitting platform maturity, Red Hat's future includes Microsoft integration, expanded management and a smaller footprint.

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  IT pros eye Photon OS as matchmaker for vSphere, containers

  IT pros see potential for VMware's Project Photon and the Photon OS to tie together cloud-native applications and existing VMware environments.

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Admins, get ready for container-friendly VMware Photon

  VMware made its name virtualizing servers and later with other proprietary technology, but it's reaching out to developers with its container-friendly, open source Project Photon.

• June 24, 2016 24 Jun'16

  Dell software biz jettisoned to advance EMC buy, users' views mixed

  Handing off most of its software business to private equity firms is one more step toward Dell's mega-purchase of EMC, and it gives users both clarity and concerns.

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  HPE turns to Docker Engine to fuel server sales

  HPE has found a data center friend in Docker to ease container entry into the enterprise, but right now, it's a step too far for some IT shops.

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Data center operations score new glasses with VMware buy

  Seeing the physical and virtual layers across the data center has been a herculean task that one company has spent the last two years tackling -- and now, it will be part of VMware.