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Server hardware strategy

What to expect when Dell acquires EMC

The Dell-EMC merger matters to a lot of enterprise IT organizations, whether it's the storage they buy, their plan for SDN, management software integration or even converged infrastructure choices. Continue Reading
A clear vision of the future data center in 2020

By 2020, what will the future data center look like? Take a peek at how networking, servers and storage will evolve in the next five years. Continue Reading
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. Continue Reading
PCI Express' speed to usher in a new server era

PCIe speeds of 20, even 100 Gbps enable the plug-and-play server flexibility and scalability that data center managers only dream of, and at a bargain. Continue Reading
All-in-one data center systems breaking out of remote computing niche

Containerized data center systems meet a niche demand for remote or temporary computing. With evolving IT workloads, they may become mainstream. Continue Reading

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