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Data Center jobs and staffing and professional development

Hone these top 5 data center skills in 2019

As data centers become more software-based, admins should prepare themselves by learning about the cloud, containers, DevOps and artificial intelligence. Continue Reading
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
IT culture is insane. Yes, this means you

IT needs to embrace the chaos and change its ways -- fast. If it doesn't, a stagnant IT culture can prove disastrous for the data center, the IT team and the company. Continue Reading
Traditional IT employees must adapt to cloud way of life

Traditional IT employees need to understand the big business picture and what the cloud offers to remain relevant. Continue Reading
How learning Linux jumpstarted my career

Choosing an alternative to Windows 98 and learning Linux -- back in the 90s -- led Jack Wallen to his current career. How did you get started with Linux? Continue Reading

Make this your most modern IT year yet

No one sticks with their New Year's resolution -- where is that gym card anyway? -- but you can pick up seven modern habits and feel good about fit, healthy IT ops. Continue Reading
Failure provides the best data center training

Incompatible programming languages, limited management capabilities, outages -- these problems and frustrations of IT life actually have the most training potential. Continue Reading
Following both sides of the decentralized vs. centralized IT debate

Consumerization and cloud have pulled technology control away from IT. But management issues may push enterprises back to a centralized IT model. Continue Reading
Memorable technology quotes from Gartner and AWS re:Invent

These technology quotes overheard at Garner events and AWS re:Invent show the diversity of IT personalities. Continue Reading

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Red Hat's OpenShift platform enables admins to take a phased approach to retiring legacy applications while moving toward a ...

Oracle VM VirtualBox offers a host of appealing features, such as multigeneration branched snapshots and guest multiprocessing.

Even if you already moved a few workloads to the cloud, it's never too early to start looking at where you are going and never ...

If we learned anything from 2020, it's to expect the unexpected. Yet that doesn't stop analysts from trying to predict what's to ...

AWS and Microsoft still dominate the cloud market, but Google, IBM and Oracle aren't without merit. Learn where each provider ...