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Composable storage startup Fungible chases hyperscalers

Fungible's composable storage includes FS1600 block storage server and Fungible Composer management backplane. Fungible offloads data services to its FS1 Data Processing Unit.

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 30, 2020

Admins eye on-premises and cloud hybrid IT management

Most organizations now support a mix of on-premises and cloud infrastructure. This has vendors and analysts reshaping tools that can address hybrid IT requirements.

By Alan Earls • Oct. 29, 2020

RHEL 8.3 updates target digital transformation

Red Hat has released RHEL 8.3 with features for users engaged in digital transformation projects. New System Roles improve security and stability.

By Ed Scannell • Oct. 29, 2020

4 ways data center operations must adapt to the cloud era

The role of the traditional data center has changed dramatically as enterprises adopt cloud services, but IT operations professionals can evolve to remain relevant.

By David Cappuccio • Oct. 26, 2020

TrueNAS Scale arrays place open source HCI into spotlight

TrueNAS Scale gives iXsystems a foothold in converged systems. Customers can obtain it as open source software or as an integrated system based on TrueNAS storage servers.

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 26, 2020

Hyper-converged edge infrastructure targets carriers, ROBOs

Hyper-converged systems provide a way to locally process IoT data and deliver streaming content at the network's edge while maintaining service and application performance.

By Kurt Marko • Oct. 22, 2020

Dell: VMware spinoff would have ‘no change for customers’

Dell CEO Michael Dell says customers aren't concerned about his company's plan to possibly spin off VMware shares; VMware's CEO says the companies will continue to 'R&D together.'

By Dave Raffo • Oct. 22, 2020

Composable, an IoT infrastructure paradigm with potential

Composable infrastructure can stand up and down virtual servers depending on the varying needs of workloads. Learn why composability is a good for IoT.

By Alan Earls • Oct. 21, 2020

IBM cloud revenues climb as hardware continues to decline

IBM cloud revenues continue to increase as hardware sales drop, sharpening the company's strategy to focus on hybrid cloud.

By Ed Scannell • Oct. 21, 2020

Figure out the differences of asset management vs. CMDB

There is no shortage of software options for change management tools. Operational goals can help IT teams decide if ITAM or CMDB is the right choice for the organization.

By Stephen Bigelow • Oct. 19, 2020

IBM partners with HBCUs to promote quantum computing

IBM is partnering with a group of historically Black colleges and universities to set up a quantum computing center in hopes of attracting Black students to the field.

By Ed Scannell • Oct. 16, 2020

Learn SELinux commands for management and troubleshooting

SELinux provides a more secure way to run Linux servers. Key commands for status, file management and troubleshooting can help you run SELinux smoothly on your infrastructure.

By Jack Wallen • Oct. 14, 2020

Bare-metal container clusters: Infrastructure for next-gen apps

Learn the requirements, designs and software stacks used to build bare-metal clusters for containers using dedicated 1-2U HCI hardware instead of existing virtual machine servers.

By Kurt Marko • Oct. 14, 2020

The value of an IoT implementation in the data center

IoT can help with data center management and optimization. Before you embark on an implementation, evaluate use cases, software options and security concerns.

By Jacob Roundy • Oct. 13, 2020

You can now run a Nvidia vGPU on VMware infrastructure

VMware's partnership with Nvidia aims to make machine learning more accessible. By pairing Nvidia vGPUs with vSphere, companies can accelerate computing and maintain management.

By Allyson Larcom • Oct. 12, 2020

IBM to spin off IT services to focus on hybrid cloud, AI

IBM will spin off its Managed Infrastructure Services unit as a public company to focus on hybrid cloud and AI.

By Chris Kanaracus, Ed Scannell • Oct. 8, 2020

Hybrid cloud vs. hyper-converged: Hybrid wins hands down

When everything goes to cloud, why do you even need HCI? Who cares where server, storage, virtualization and networking are when IT adopts a 'run any app from anyplace' strategy?

By Mike Matchett • Oct. 8, 2020

Dell EMC PowerEdge XE7100 seeks to corral unstructured data

Dell looks to snap server sales slump with two new PowerEdge XE servers. The dense models have flexible configurations of compute, storage and networking, and joint code development with Splunk.

By Garry Kranz • Oct. 8, 2020

VMware bulks up vSAN against container-native threats

As VMware embraces Tanzu and Kubernetes, it expands vSAN hyper-converged infrastructure software to try to make it a better fit for developers who embrace containers.

By Dave Raffo • Oct. 6, 2020

VSphere 7 Kubernetes capabilities ease move toward modern apps

VSphere 7 comes with a variety of updates -- most notably, native Kubernetes functionality. This helps developers deploy applications more efficiently, and also adds automation.

By Allyson Larcom • Oct. 2, 2020

Best practices for multi-cloud optimization

Optimizing multi-cloud environments is essential to ensuring performance and low costs. There are several best practices organizations can use, including governing cloud resource usage.

By Stefani Muñoz • Oct. 2, 2020

NSX distributed firewall ensures security across VMs, containers

The security rules and policies within VMware's NSX software enable admins to implement security measures for both VMs and containers to prevent malicious attacks and malware.

By Stefani Muñoz • Sept. 30, 2020

Private cloud networking creates public cloud UX on premises

Organizations can run a private cloud like a public cloud with the help of the right networking and security tools and achieve agility and flexibility on premises.

By Allyson Larcom • Sept. 30, 2020

Winners of the Best of VMworld 2020 Awards

Best of VMworld 2020 Awards recognize the most innovative new products associated with VMworld 2020. A panel of judges named winners in seven categories, including Best of Show.

By Allyson Larcom • Sept. 30, 2020

TechTarget announces Best of VMworld 2020 Award winners

The Best of VMworld 2020 Awards highlight the most innovative products from VMware ecosystem partners. Here are the winners of all six categories and the Best of Show.

By Nick Martin • Sept. 30, 2020