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Hyper-converged data center vendors innovate, evolve products

Review notable hyper-converged, HCI 2.0 and composable disaggregated product news to gain insight into data center convergence technology as you make infrastructure decisions.

By James Alan Miller • Feb. 12, 2020

A guide to GPU implementation and activation

Data center GPU usage goes beyond hardware. Admins must work with vendors and developers to have the right software architecture and code to benefit from GPUs.

By Stephen Bigelow • Feb. 12, 2020

Key components for negotiating an HPC colocation contract

When it comes to HPC colocation, there are specialized areas to cover in a service-level agreement. Review provider protocols for power, security and network connectivity.

By Clive Longbottom • Feb. 10, 2020

Hyper-converged and composable architectures transform IT

Hyper-convergence and up-and-coming HCI 2.0 and composable infrastructure can help you achieve your IT and business goals. See why, how and where their strengths and weaknesses lie.

By James Alan Miller • Feb. 10, 2020

4 considerations for vSphere disk provisioning

To provision disk space in vSphere, consider the following: The size of data stores you require, thin vs. thick provisioning, storage acceleration and managing free disk space.

By Allyson Larcom • Feb. 7, 2020

Infrastructure modernization via hyper-convergence can equal success

How hyper-convergence can help modernize IT infrastructures to better meet challenges like the digital transformation of the business and the adoption of edge computing.

By James Alan Miller • Feb. 3, 2020

A brief history of VMware, containers and its competitors

VMware has long been synonymous with virtualization. However, with the rise of containers, the vendor has pivoted strategies to compete with the likes of Red Hat and Docker.

By Paul Korzeniowski • Feb. 3, 2020

Make the case for a technology refresh strategy

A good portion of IT budgets are spent maintaining aging hardware. Energy efficiency, failure rates and potential downtime costs are all ways to justify regular hardware updates.

By Brien Posey • Jan. 31, 2020

Use DRS for VMware load balancing and streamlined environments

VMware DRS uses vMotion to automatically migrate VMs and workloads to available hosts and avoid resource contention. Discover the basics of this essential VMware utility.

By Allyson Larcom • Jan. 31, 2020

Get to know Dell EMC hyper-converged infrastructure products

Gain insight into Dell EMC's hyper-converged portfolio, including VxRail and XC Series appliances, VxRack System Flex plus vSAN, VxFlex and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes.

By James Alan Miller • Jan. 30, 2020

Illustrated guide to hyper-converged edge computing

Hyper-converged systems can help reduce network strain by making it possible to send only the most valuable and relevant data to centralized remote data centers or the cloud.

By James Alan Miller • Jan. 28, 2020

A guide to data center maintenance outsourcing

Data centers have a lot of moving mechanical parts to maintain. It's beneficial to leave electrical and fire system upkeep to the professionals instead of doing it all in-house.

By Robert McFarlane • Jan. 27, 2020

StorMagic SvSAN helps Sheetz hyper-converge at the edge

Retail chain Sheetz simplified its technology on the edge with StorMagic hyper-converged infrastructure software, reducing seven devices at each site to two servers running SvSAN.

By Dave Raffo • Jan. 27, 2020

Test your Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure knowledge

Do you know what it takes to deploy, maintain and secure Nutanix hyper-converged hardware and software? Take our quiz to see how deep your Nutanix knowledge and expertise runs.

By James Alan Miller • Jan. 27, 2020

Top data center skills admins can use in 2020

The 2019 tech job sector saw consistent growth and job availability. In 2020, admins should develop expertise on cloud architectures, edge computing deployments and automation.

By Julia Borgini • Jan. 22, 2020

How well do you know PowerCLI cmdlets?

Take this eight-question quiz to determine how much you know about PowerCLI and its cmdlets -- the short scripts that enable you to automate nearly anything.

By Allyson Larcom • Jan. 22, 2020

What to expect from VMware in 2020

VMware experts Brian Kirsch, Alastair Cooke and Rob Bastiaansen take a look at what's ahead for the virtualization vendor in 2020 as it builds Kubernetes into its suite.

By Allyson Larcom • Jan. 16, 2020

Are attitudes toward edge computing architecture changing?

Edge computing has many advantages over the centralized running of applications and processing of data on premises and in the cloud. Are IT leaders getting the message, though?

By Kurt Marko , James Alan Miller • Jan. 16, 2020

Organizations try to predict the effect of 5G infrastructure

With more 5G and IoT devices emerging, admins must prepare their data centers to support low-latency apps and edge computing with the right network and processing hardware.

By Alan Earls • Jan. 15, 2020

Why hyper-converged edge computing is coming into vogue

Hyper-convergence helps enterprises better provision applications at the network edge and more efficiently process enormous amounts of data generated by IoT devices and smart sensors.

By Kurt Marko • Jan. 15, 2020

Top infrastructure and operations technology myths of 2019

Admins are consistently evaluating technology to improve I&O efficiency. Cost, integration and business goals are key components to this process and cutting down any hype.

By Jessica Lulka • Jan. 14, 2020

How to survive in today’s IT without DevOps and containers

If you don't write software, you might not require DevOps or containers in your data center. You don't need to give into the pressure to adopt them.

By Brian Kirsch • Jan. 13, 2020

Quantum computing strides continue with IBM, Q Network growth

IBM literally doubled down on its commitment to quantum computing with the addition of 60 more high-profile IBM Q Network members and news that it has doubled its Quantum Volume metric to 32.

By Ed Scannell • Jan. 10, 2020

Features distinguish leading composable infrastructure systems

Before selecting a composable architecture, compare the different platforms' processing power, latency rates, supported IOPS, size and type of memory.

By Robert Sheldon • Jan. 10, 2020

AWS Outposts vs. Azure Stack vs. HCI

See how AWS Outposts vs. Microsoft Azure Stack hybrid cloud offerings work and where they can and cannot take the place of traditional hyper-converged infrastructures.

By Brien Posey • Jan. 8, 2020