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Data center budget and culture

Colocation vs. cloud: Quiz yourself on these workload expansion options

Colocation or cloud? Data centers have plenty of expansion options beyond building a new facility. Learn about each option -- and test your knowledge -- with this quiz. Continue Reading
Is your data center certification knowledge up to date?

While the Uptime Institute was once the standard for data center certification, challenges from Switch, OSDA and others threaten to shake up the market. Take this quiz to certify your knowledge. Continue Reading
Pop quiz: Know the ABCs of data center spending

There are a lot of acronyms that define data center spending, but which letters will save you money? See how well you know IT budget vocab. Continue Reading

Microsoft put its branding on a relatively new hyper-converged infrastructure offering that capitalizes on the software-defined ...

Duplicating your existing transport rule collection won't work when you move to an Exchange hybrid deployment. Learn how to set ...

Administrators can diagnose and treat a buggy server operating system by using the Windows SFC and DISM utilities for image ...

Admins can map a VM to a GPU with Hyper-V, but they must first complete a few steps, such as prepare the VM and dismount the PCIe...

The VMs vs. containers debate is popular among admins, but integrations of the two technologies have begun to emerge with the ...

Admins can use Dockerfiles to containerize their applications and ease deployment. They can implement several commands to help ...

When applications talk, you need to listen. Learn about Microsoft's cloud messaging service, its main features, best practices to...

Automation is essential to change management in the cloud. Discover the best practices that ensure your IT team is in sync and ...

It's not easy to get the right mix of traditional and cloud-based DR resources. Here's how to strike a balance between what's ...