Server Management, Monitoring Tools and Services
Top Stories
-
Tip
19 Nov 2020
Your guide to avoiding server rack setup issues
Not all data center servers are created equal. Before you attempt a server racking project, double-check size specifications and account for fastening hardware and cabling needs. Continue Reading
-
Tip
19 May 2020
6 quick server troubleshooting tips
Understand, communicate, monitor, check logs, ask for support. Follow these guidelines, and make troubleshooting server problems quick and easy. Continue Reading
-
News
26 Oct 2016
Igneous Systems offers nano servers with IaaS
Igneous Systems offers IaaS that uses nano servers to store data on- premises and is managed by the vendor remotely on a cloud subscription basis. Continue Reading
-
News
26 Oct 2016
Exhibitors at VMworld claim they’re setting our knowledge free
They’re selling liberty, fraternity and open IT -- but which would you trust if you were a buyer? Continue Reading
-
News
26 Oct 2016
U.S. judge orders FBI to answer VEP questions
A U.S. district judge grants the defendants in a child porn case the right to know whether the FBI used the vulnerabilities equities process before the hack of the Playpen Tor hidden service site. Continue Reading
-
News
26 Oct 2016
Apple highlights record services revenue as iPhone sales fall
For a second quarter in a row, Apple plays up growing services revenues as iPhone sales continue to fall. Continue Reading
-
News
25 Oct 2016
Capriza Falcon lets IT skip building apps from scratch
Capriza identified the most common approval workflows that businesses need in their mobile apps, and offers pre-made apps to make mobilizing those processes easier. Continue Reading
-
News
25 Oct 2016
New Puppet CEO pulls IT automation strings
Puppet's CEO, brought on in April 2016 following substantial software automation growth, vows to build a bridge from legacy infrastructure to the bleeding edge for enterprise IT. Continue Reading
-
News
25 Oct 2016
Hitachi adds new VSP models, boosts QoS, data reduction
Hitachi added new VSP all-flash array and hybrid array models and updated the operating system with adaptive data reduction, enhanced quality of service and cloud tiering. Continue Reading
-
News
25 Oct 2016
Avaya Equinox gives Aura Platform a fresh look
The new Equinox software client for the Avaya Aura Platform delivers UC services to mobile devices, desktops and the Chrome web browser. Continue Reading
-
News
25 Oct 2016
AI set to replace traditional IT administrators
Demand for higher levels of availability will lead to increased use of automation. Over time, many IT roles will be taken over by intelligent algorithms. Continue Reading
-
News
24 Oct 2016
Dyn DNS DDoS attacks raise ire and questions
Users, companies suffer after Dyn DNS DDoS attacks disrupt access to top sites; links to Mirai botnet raise still more questions as Dyn mops up. Continue Reading
-
News
24 Oct 2016
Backup vendor Acronis launches SDS cloud product
Acronis, known for its backup and recovery offerings, has unveiled a software-defined storage product to the public for the first time, including blockchain integration. Continue Reading
-
News
24 Oct 2016
Dyn DDoS attack highlights vulnerability of global internet
Last week’s DDoS attack on DNS firm Dyn has highlighted both the vulnerability of the world’s internet infrastructure, and the dangers of leaving internet of things devices unsecured. Continue Reading
-
News
21 Oct 2016
Lay of the land: What's coming for converged systems?
Industry watchers hash out the future of converged systems, the best use cases for enterprise workloads and how IT pros should plan ahead for changes in the market. Continue Reading
-
News
21 Oct 2016
Phishing scheme by DNC hackers also hit Clinton campaign
Malicious links from the DNC hacker group were responsible for account takeovers and leaked emails from the Clinton campaign chairman and Colin Powell. Continue Reading
-
News
21 Oct 2016
Dyn copes with series of DNS DDoS attacks
At least two DNS DDoS attacks on Dyn are disrupting access to many popular websites, users and companies on the Eastern U.S. are impacted. Continue Reading
-
News
21 Oct 2016
Google Cloud Storage gets cheaper and colder
Google is revamping its Cloud Storage services to woo users and challenge AWS with price cuts, lifecycle management and cold storage with quicker retrieval times than Amazon Glacier. Continue Reading
-
News
21 Oct 2016
Companies moving slowly on Privacy Shield certification
After a slow start, some U.S. companies are starting to address the questions and challenges of EU-U.S. Privacy Shield certification. But most haven't started the process. Continue Reading
-
News
20 Oct 2016
Dell EMC broadens HCI scope, targeting ODM cracks
Adding Dell servers to its hyper-converged infrastructure lineup boosts scalability and reliability for more use cases, says Dell EMC, but some customers may not be easily swayed. Continue Reading
-
News
20 Oct 2016
VMware aims to please with cheaper workspace suite
A more affordable Workspace One bundle with less advanced management capabilities could appease IT pros who view workspace suites as too pricey. Continue Reading
-
News
20 Oct 2016
Cisco buys Worklife to improve Spark team meetings
Cisco buys startup Worklife to fold its team-meeting software into Spark. Worklife provides tools for creating and sharing tasks, agendas and meeting notes. Continue Reading
-
News
20 Oct 2016
Dell EMC execs: Vblocks, XC Series remain in lineup
Dell EMC reinforced its commitment to sell Cisco products in Vblocks and Nutanix-based XC Series hyper-convergence, even if those vendors compete with Dell and EMC products. Continue Reading
-
News
20 Oct 2016
Citrix has better than expected third quarter
Citrix's new streamlined focus on core areas of the business seems to be paying off, as the company beats Wall Street's expectations. Continue Reading
-
News
19 Oct 2016
Intel chip flaw can make attacks more dangerous
Researchers devised an exploit of an Intel chip flaw that allows an adversary to bypass ASLR protection and potentially boost the effectiveness of an attack on any platform. Continue Reading
-
News
19 Oct 2016
Ten strategic trends to keep in your sights
Forward-thinking IT pros are peering around the corner at the IT trends they'll need to plan around in the coming year. Here's the short list -- how ready are you? Continue Reading
-
News
19 Oct 2016
WebSphere bug gets responsible disclosure, sort of
IBM asks, and researcher pulls proof of concept code from a coordinated vulnerability disclosure, internet explodes. Continue Reading
-
News
19 Oct 2016
Dell EMC World: Isilon All-Flash set for 2017 launch
Dell EMC shows off Isilon All-Flash scale-out NAS array at first Dell EMC World; also extends EMC management and data protection to Compellent arrays. Continue Reading
-
News
19 Oct 2016
Cisco adds 100 GbE to storage networking
Cisco storage networking announced upgrades that include Ethernet boosts for FCIP and FCoE, but it's decided to hold off on shipping 32 GbE Fibre Channel. Continue Reading
-
News
18 Oct 2016
VMware VSAN 6.5 supports containers and physical servers via iSCSI
VMware Virtual SAN now supports containers with persistent storage and allows physical server storage access to its shared pool of capacity via the iSCSI SAN protocol. Continue Reading
-
News
18 Oct 2016
These 10 trends in IT are rewriting the rules: Are you prepared?
The rapid evolution of data centers and cloud hinges on these 10 key IT trends, from hybrid infrastructures to IoT and smartly managing capacity -- and new IT roles to manage it all. Continue Reading
-
News
18 Oct 2016
VMware-AWS hybrid cloud challenges OpenStack
The VMware-AWS hybrid cloud partnership pressures OpenStack supporters to simplify deployment of the open source cloud platform in the enterprise. Continue Reading
-
News
18 Oct 2016
IBM Q3 results suggest firm’s big cloud bets are paying off
IBM posted flat revenue figures for third quarter overall, despite solid growth generated by its big data, cloud and artificial intelligence activities Continue Reading
-
News
18 Oct 2016
VMworld 2016: VMware progresses its hybrid strategy
Following its partnership with AWS, VMware is honing its hybrid strategy with a suite of tools to manage workloads accros private and public clouds Continue Reading
-
News
17 Oct 2016
Caringo, Dell deliver an object storage server cluster for Swarm
Caringo previously sold Swarm as software-only object storage, but now, Dell packages Swarm 9 as a hardware option that clusters 288 TB of usable storage. Continue Reading
-
News
17 Oct 2016
Lenovo partners with Nimble to deliver next-gen data center
Lenovo makes a strong play for data center domination with new all flash converged infrastructure solution Continue Reading
-
News
17 Oct 2016
Companies take different paths with SAP performance review software
New York Life, SRAM and TranSystems configured SAP SuccessFactors performance management software to fit individual systems for evaluating employees. Continue Reading
-
News
17 Oct 2016
Business and GDPR to drive consumer identity projects
Business demand for consumer identity management capability is growing to enable new business models, improve customer engagement and ensure General Data Protection Regulation compliance, says KuppingerCole Continue Reading
-
News
14 Oct 2016
Pork Explosion dangerous but maybe not widespread
The Pork Explosion flaw in the app bootloader provided by Foxconn creates an Android backdoor which could give an attacker dangerous levels of access. Continue Reading
-
News
14 Oct 2016
Windows 10 update aims to stop crashes
In an update to the OS next year, Microsoft looks to stop Windows 10 from crashing, prevent restarts from automatic updates and provide more details in Task Manager. Continue Reading
-
News
14 Oct 2016
Quantum aims tape at large unstructured data stores
Quantum's unstructured data archiving platform consists of Scalar LTO tape libraries and StorNext data management. The vendor aims to make tape more efficient across multi-tiers. Continue Reading
-
News
14 Oct 2016
VMware and Amazon partnership a response to IT reality
In a move focused squarely on enterprise customers, VMware and Amazon are partnering to shift on-premises vSphere workloads to AWS bare metal. Continue Reading
-
News
14 Oct 2016
HP Inc. makes job cuts to focus on sustainable business growth
HP Inc. reveals the challenges it faces in 2017 with PCs, printers and the 3D printing opportunity. Continue Reading
-
News
14 Oct 2016
Odinaff banking Trojan resembles Carbanak
The Odinaff banking Trojan has been found targeting the SWIFT messaging system at financial institutions around the world and may have links to the infamous Carbanak group. Continue Reading
-
News
14 Oct 2016
GobalSign certificate revocation list fouls websites
Attempting to tidy its root certificates, a mis-issued GlobalSign certificate revocation list left website owners scrambling to address cert errors, restore safe browsing icons. Continue Reading
-
News
13 Oct 2016
IBM's SoftLayer focus woos more cloud-ready customers
Three years after its purchase of SoftLayer, IBM has finally coalesced its cloud computing strategy around the cloud platform and is winning new IT fans. Continue Reading
-
News
13 Oct 2016
KodaCloud targets SMBs with Wi-Fi subscription service
Startup KodaCloud is providing access points and Wi-Fi management for a monthly fee. The service is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. Continue Reading
-
News
13 Oct 2016
Akamai discovers SSH bug used to enslave IoT devices
Akamai researchers discovered how unknown threat actors are using an SSH flaw to secretly gain control of IoT devices and turn them into proxies for malicious traffic. Continue Reading
-
News
13 Oct 2016
Encryption trapdoors could be lurking in crypto keys
Academic researchers show how to place undetectable encryption backdoors in cryptographic keys and passively decrypt data, which could undermine confidence in certain algorithms. Continue Reading
-
News
13 Oct 2016
Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct clusters local storage
Windows Server 2016 release makes Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct available to data centers. Highlights include heightened data reduction, HCI, replication and tiering. Continue Reading
-
News
13 Oct 2016
Lifesize launches video system for huddle rooms
The burgeoning market for huddle rooms, or small meeting spaces, is seeing a diverse set of products that aim to enrich the video collaboration experience. Continue Reading
-
News
13 Oct 2016
MobileIron bridges Windows 10's EMM gap
MobileIron Bridge, a new add-on service, expands IT's Windows 10 application deployment options. Admins can now deploy and manage legacy applications via enterprise mobility management. Continue Reading
-
News
12 Oct 2016
PC market enters longest period of decline since records began
PC shipments across the globe enter an unprecedented period of decline, Gartner reveals. Continue Reading
-
News
12 Oct 2016
Comparing VMware vs. OpenStack, some users choose union
IT shops comfortable with vSphere may be happier staying home when comparing VMware vs. OpenStack to put together legacy and next-generation applications. Continue Reading
-
News
12 Oct 2016
Firms face uphill battle for GDPR compliance
With EU's new privacy regulation set to take effect in May 2018, GDPR compliance may be hampered by lack of planning and awareness, Dell research finds. Continue Reading
-
News
12 Oct 2016
Facebook Workplace lacks key enterprise features
Facebook's enterprise social network, Workplace, lacks integration with popular business applications and protections for corporate data. Continue Reading
-
News
12 Oct 2016
Russian election tampering may draw U.S. response
U.S. intelligence agencies officially attributed potential election tampering activity to government-led Russian hackers and the White House said it is considering a proportional response. Continue Reading
-
News
12 Oct 2016
Citrix improves routing in SD-WAN product
Banks and medical centers can use the advanced routing features in Citrix's NetScaler SD-WAN to protect traffic to critical applications. Continue Reading
-
News
12 Oct 2016
Verizon, CenturyLink close to selling colocation data centers
Reports suggest both CenturyLink and Verizon could be on the cusp of off-loading their colocation assets, after months of speculation. Continue Reading
-
News
12 Oct 2016
CompTIA: Industry must do more to increase diversity
The CEO of CompTIA has urged the channel to do more to increase diversity in the industry. Continue Reading
-
News
11 Oct 2016
EMC launches VMAX 250F, upgrades Unity flash arrays
Dell EMC's first major product launch since the merger focuses on flash with VMAX 250F, inline compression and nondisruptive flash upgrades for VMAX and Unity. Continue Reading
-
News
11 Oct 2016
Hyper-converged Pivot3 storage goes down market
Edge Office is the new Pivot3 storage for hyper-convergence at midsize companies and distributed enterprises. Modular configurations range from 1.6 TB to 6.4 TB per node. Continue Reading
-
News
11 Oct 2016
Samsung kills off Galaxy Note 7
A day after temporarily suspending production after a spate of battery fires, Samsung finally pulls the plug on its Galaxy Note 7 device. Continue Reading
-
News
10 Oct 2016
Armor cloud partnership highlights compliance opportunity for MSPs
A new alliance between Armor cloud security and Cogent Co. speaks to channel opportunities around compliance, according to Armor's chief of operations and security. Continue Reading
-
News
10 Oct 2016
Facebook debuts Workplace
Facebook's Workplace promises to put collaboration in the hands of all employees, from sailors and sales clerks to barkeeps, who can use their mobile devices to access the platform. Continue Reading
-
News
07 Oct 2016
Commvault CEO focuses on data management
Commvault CEO Bob Hammer talks about transforming his company into a full-scale data management vendor and how its technology is ahead of competitors. Continue Reading
-
News
07 Oct 2016
Do customers care about HCI vendors' numbers? Yes and no
So what if many top vendors in the hyper-converged infrastructure market aren't profitable? Customers mostly care whether the technology is useful for their data centers. Continue Reading
-
News
07 Oct 2016
Avaya to provide cloud-based WLAN management
Avaya plans to offer in the first half of next year cloud-based management for its access switches and WLAN 9100 access points. Continue Reading
-
Feature
06 Oct 2016
Salesforce telehealth system lets channel add real-time video, audio
Salesforce's telehealth tool, built on top of its Health Cloud platform, offers partners the ability to add real-time video and audio to their healthcare vertical offerings. Continue Reading
-
News
06 Oct 2016
Yahoo's FISA secret surveillance comes under question
A report claims Yahoo built custom software under order of the U.S. government to perform secret surveillance on all incoming emails, though questions about the program remain. Continue Reading
-
News
06 Oct 2016
Arcserve UDP appliance line expands with 8000 series
Data protection vendor moves up market with the 8000 Series Arcserve UDP appliance hardware. The 8000 models scale from 4 TB to 80 TB raw storage before source-side deduplication. Continue Reading
-
News
06 Oct 2016
Commvault plans to 'Go' in new direction
At Commvault's first user conference, the vendor revealed its roadmap to expand from data protection into full data management on premises and in the cloud. Continue Reading
-
News
06 Oct 2016
AT&T taps VeloCloud for SD-WAN managed service
AT&T plans to offer the VeloCloud SD-WAN service. The cloud-based offering will join other managed network services in AT&T FlexWare portfolio. Continue Reading
-
News
06 Oct 2016
Deloitte pegs HR technology trends disrupting business
A new report by Deloitte Consulting lists nine trends reinventing the HR software market, including people analytics, continuous performance management and employee engagement. Continue Reading
-
News
06 Oct 2016
VMware Workspace One turns heads
Organizations that want to simplify device management and access are interested in workspace suites, such as VMware Workspace One. Continue Reading
-
News
05 Oct 2016
Azure price cuts lower bar for entry for newcomers
The latest Azure price cuts may not mean much to those using higher-level services, but they're an incentive for on-premises users Microsoft wants to entice to the cloud. Continue Reading
-
News
05 Oct 2016
Infinidat 'infiniboxes' compression, native iSCSI
Infinidat claims InfiniBox can scale to 5 PB effective capacity in a 42U array and has 'carrier-grade' iSCSI in its enterprise SAN array; it still revolves around spinning disk. Continue Reading
-
News
05 Oct 2016
Juniper counters Cisco advanced malware protection
Juniper has introduced a cloud-based malware detection service called Sky ATP that competes with Cisco AMP. Both products secure the network access layer. Continue Reading
-
News
05 Oct 2016
Dell promises the best of both worlds with unified program
Michael Dell has pledged that the forthcoming Dell Technologies channel partner program will combine the best of both Dell and EMC’s former schemes. Continue Reading
-
News
04 Oct 2016
Yammer integrates with Office 365 Groups
Yammer's integration with Office 365 Groups reveals Microsoft's collaboration roadmap, but raises questions for on-premises Office 365 users. Continue Reading
-
News
04 Oct 2016
Salesforce stakes claim for AI baked into cloud CRM apps
Salesforce inaugurates Dreamforce 2016 by restating a claim to bring artificial intelligence to bear on its customer relationship management cloud-delivered software. Continue Reading
-
News
04 Oct 2016
Mirai IoT botnet malware released to the public
The IoT botnet malware code Mirai used in the massive DDoS attack on Brian Krebs' website has been released to the public and highlights a problem of using default passwords. Continue Reading
-
News
04 Oct 2016
Hedvig CEO: 'Scale-up systems are practically dead'
Storage startup Hedvig's CEO envisions self-service, virtualized, distributed storage running on commodity hardware across customer-run data centers and public clouds. Continue Reading
-
News
04 Oct 2016
DNS monitoring can break Tor anonymity
Researchers found a way to use DNS monitoring to deanonymize Tor users by enhancing the effectiveness of fingerprinting attacks. Continue Reading
-
News
04 Oct 2016
JPEG 2000 parser flaw enables remote code execution
Cisco Talos discovered a severe flaw in the JPEG 2000 image file format parser, which is often used in PDF documents, that could allow remote code execution on affected systems. Continue Reading
-
News
03 Oct 2016
SAP makes big IoT investment for next five years
SAP announces a $2.2 billion IoT investment, with industry-specific applications, acquisitions and innovation labs to develop IoT applications and grow its ecosystem. Continue Reading
-
News
03 Oct 2016
Microsoft partners lend a hand to Skype for Business
Crestron, Logitech and Polycom have introduced product support for Skype for Business meetings that make the UC service a better enterprise option. Continue Reading
-
News
03 Oct 2016
Kaleao KMAX seeks to strong-ARM hyper-convergence
Kaleao gambles that customers will buy its KMAX hyper-convergence; it favors 64-bit ARM processors and microvisors, rather than x86 hardware and traditional hypervisors. Continue Reading
-
News
03 Oct 2016
Workday touts new products, partnership with Microsoft
At the vendor's annual user conference, Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri attacked Oracle and SAP, unveiled a partnership with Microsoft and raved about a budgeting product for CFOs. Continue Reading
-
News
29 Sep 2016
Autotask boss talks of growth as the MSP market expands
Autotask’s CEO on the company’s growth and how MSPs are handling disruption to their businesses. Continue Reading
-
News
29 Sep 2016
Oracle, AWS and the fight for your databases
Oracle and AWS continue to fight over which is the better environment for running database workloads in the cloud, but for many IT shops it's not an either-or decision. Continue Reading
-
News
29 Sep 2016
Mozilla finds certificate authority WoSign less than trustworthy
Citing a long list of transgressions, Mozilla prepares to sanction Chinese certificate authority WoSign by removing it from its list of trusted certificate issuers. Continue Reading
-
News
29 Sep 2016
Yahoo sued and may be investigated over breach
The Yahoo breach was the largest in history and the fallout is widespread, including a lawsuit, possible SEC investigation and questions about Yahoo's breach detection and response. Continue Reading
-
News
29 Sep 2016
MobileIron's James Plouffe on mobile threats, security
A new report from MobileIron shows enterprises aren't taking mobile threats seriously enough. MobileIron's James Plouffe explains what that is and what's to be done about it. Continue Reading
-
News
29 Sep 2016
Latest IEEE standard extends life of CAT5e, CAT6 cables
The latest IEEE Ethernet standard gets more life out of CAT5e and CAT6 cables by raising bandwidth from 1 Gbps to as much as 5 Gbps. Continue Reading
-
News
29 Sep 2016
Datera drives elastic data storage fabric around block
Datera Elastic Data Fabric qualifies Dell PowerEdge servers, adds all-flash nodes, and increases scaling to 50 nodes and 5 PB raw capacity per cluster. Continue Reading
-
News
29 Sep 2016
Microsoft's plan to make big data intelligence accessible to all
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants to democratize access to big data intelligence across the enterprise through the use of cloud, machine learning and new data center chip technologies. Continue Reading
-
News
28 Sep 2016
Enforcement of SWIFT security still questionable
New SWIFT security policy will mandate baseline controls for banking partners but experts are unsure how effectively the changes can be enforced. Continue Reading
-
News
28 Sep 2016
BlackBerry ends production of mobile phones
Canadian firm to focus on a strategy built around software development, including security and applications, and mobile device management. Continue Reading
-
News
28 Sep 2016
Salesforce to embed Cisco Spark, WebEx in business apps
Cisco and Salesforce have agreed to develop and market Cisco Spark and WebEx for Salesforce's online software for sales and customer service. Continue Reading
-
News
28 Sep 2016
Blockchain in healthcare pros and cons aired
Proponents and skeptics of blockchain for healthcare came together at a workshop hosted by NIST and ONC to work out proposals and problems with this new technology. Continue Reading
-
News
27 Sep 2016
Windows Server 2016 to arrive in mid-October
Microsoft dedicated its opening keynote to the benefits of Azure, but IT pros say the company's on-ramp to the cloud still needs some work. Continue Reading