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Best practices for data center risk assessment

Data centers contain risks such as height, environmental and electrical hazards. Keep your staff safe by assessing the level of risk and creating a comprehensive safety plan.

By Julia Borgini • Nov. 20, 2021

Get started with green energy for your data center

Running a sustainable data center requires organizations to consider factors such as facility sustainability, efficient storage and servers, and outsourcing options.

By Allyson Larcom • Nov. 19, 2021

MemVerge to help balance HPC resources more efficiently

Partnering with the DMTCP Project, MemVerge supports the open source distributed multithreaded checkpointing technology, which could change the high-performance computing game.

By Adam Armstrong • Nov. 19, 2021

solid-state

Solid-state is a common descriptor used to refer to electronic components, devices and systems based entirely on semiconductor materials such as silicon, germanium or gallium arsenide.

By Robert Sheldon • Nov. 18, 2021

Ensure VM security with VMware CDP integration

CDP protects data in the case of a disaster -- an essential part of any security procedure. But CDP can introduce high throughputs, which can affect network performance.

By Vladan Seget • Nov. 17, 2021

Learn vSphere vApps creation, deployment and configuration

VApps in vSphere can combine VMs into a single location for resource management and have configurations for start and stop processes that improve application performance.

By Rob Bastiaansen • Nov. 16, 2021

Server lifecycle approach lowers risk, raises app performance

Nemertes Research CTO John Burke warns that a server's lifecycle may be shorter than you think and offers a four-stage approach to maintain on-premises servers at peak efficiency.

By Ron Karjian, John Burke • Nov. 16, 2021

Compare Hadoop vs. Spark vs. Kafka for your big data strategy

Learn more about these three big data frameworks and what use case best suits each one. You might also examine options such as Apache Hive, Flink and Storm.

By Daniel Robinson • Nov. 15, 2021

OLTP (online transaction processing)

OLTP (online transaction processing) is a class of software programs capable of supporting transaction-oriented applications.

By Ben Lutkevich • Nov. 11, 2021

Kyndryl CTO talks strategy for the ‘$19 billion startup’

Kyndryl, the IBM services spinoff, debuted this week amidst varying analyst opinions as to how it would fare. Kyndryl CTO Antoine Shagoury lays out why he thinks it can succeed.

By Ed Scannell • Nov. 4, 2021

single point of failure (SPOF)

A single point of failure (SPOF) is a potential risk posed by a flaw in the design, implementation or configuration of a circuit or system.

By Paul Kirvan, Stephen Bigelow • Nov. 4, 2021

Top Unix commands: 50 must-know commands with examples

Use these 50 Unix commands to manage and modify files, navigate directories, monitor your network and users, gather data, and automate system tasks and processes.

By Kenneth Milberg • Nov. 4, 2021

U (measurement)

A U is a standard unit of measure for designating the height in computer enclosures and server rack cabinets.

By Katie Terrell Hanna • Nov. 4, 2021

What to know about managing power for edge devices

Keeping edge devices powered constantly can present challenges in sourcing and managing it. Learn the basics of getting and keeping power at the edge.

By Alan Earls • Nov. 3, 2021

ISO (International Organization for Standardization)

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies.

By Peter Loshin • Oct. 29, 2021

TrueNAS Scale puts storage spin on HCI

TrueNAS Scale hits general availability and marks iXsystems' first foray into HCI, bringing scale-out storage to its NAS devices.

By Adam Armstrong • Oct. 28, 2021

Compare VMware Workstation Pro vs. Microsoft Hyper-V

When comparing Workstation Pro to Hyper-V, it's important to consider the type of OS you use, how often you run your VMs and how much hypervisor overhead is feasible.

By Rob Bastiaansen • Oct. 27, 2021

IBM details Kyndryl spinoff, business reorg and earnings

IBM's third-quarter earnings report was a mixed bag, with overall cloud revenues continuing to rise, and server hardware showing a sharp downturn.

By Ed Scannell • Oct. 21, 2021

Bust latency with monitoring practices and tools

Improve latency across your data center's infrastructure by exploring its causes, a handful of best practices and tools you can implement to improve speed and responsiveness.

By Allyson Larcom • Oct. 19, 2021

VSphere VM Service: Provision VMs with Kubernetes APIs

Tanzu integration and vSphere VM Service lets developers and admins spin up VMs and guest OSes as desired-state images in vSphere for Kubernetes-based management.

By Jessica Lulka • Oct. 18, 2021

Best practices for container security in the data center

Container sprawl and container repositories can introduce new vulnerabilities to a data center. Here's what organizations should watch out for and how to stay safe.

By Alan Earls • Oct. 15, 2021

VMware’s Project Monterey expands its capabilities, use cases

With updates to Project Monterey, VMware customers can now use DPUs for networking, security and bare-metal deployments from the vSphere interface.

By Jessica Lulka • Oct. 15, 2021

3 VMware disk types you should know: Raw, thick and thin

Raw, thick and thin disks offer portability and file storage efficiency. But each type has its pros and cons, including slower write speeds, less security and increased capacity.

By Stefani Muñoz • Oct. 15, 2021

Which processing units for AI does your organization require?

AI requires certain hardware infrastructure, such as hardware accelerators and proper storage. Learn what your organization requires to successfully support AI.

By Daniel Robinson • Oct. 14, 2021

VSphere 7 Update 3 broadens app acceleration, cloud initiatives

VMware announced several initiatives and updates, such as Project Arctic and vSphere 7 Update 3, that broaden the scope of vSphere's app modernization and cloud capabilities.

By Stefani Muñoz • Oct. 13, 2021