5 disruptive storage technologies for 2020
Leading-edge technologies, including intent-based storage management, promise to change the way IT organisations store, manage and use data.
Stories by John Edwards
Using predictive analytics to troubleshoot network issues: Fact or fiction?
Predictive analytics can reveal lurking network problems before they impact reliability or performance. Once considered a futuristic technology, predictive analytics is poised to become a mainstream network diagnostic and management tool.
How to get a handle on multicloud management
Multicloud management tools promise to bring order, control and insight to disparate environments.
For enterprise storage, persistent memory is here to stay
Persistent memory – also known as storage class memory – has tantalized data center operators for many years. A new technology promises the key to success.
NVMe over Fabrics creates data-center storage disruption
By delivering high speed and low latency storage over a network fabric, NVMe over Fabrics promises to take demanding applications to a new level of performance. Here's what you need to know.
5 times when cloud repatriation makes sense
Even the cloud has its limits. In certain situations a traditional data center is the best place to host one or more applications.
How to move to a disruptive network technology with minimal disruption
Emerging network technologies such as SDN, SD-WAN and intent-based networking promise to improve service and streamline operations, but don't let the transition process throw a wrench into existing activities.
Making the right hyper-convergence choice: HCI hardware or software?
Enterprises planning to adopt hyper-converged infrastructure can select from two main approaches: hardware or software.
10 ways to improve IT performance (without killing morale)
Pushing harder isn't necessarily the pathway to achieving stellar results. From monitoring for burnout to leveraging the latest management techniques, here’s how to keep your IT team humming.
10 cloud mistakes that can sink your business
The cloud offers a wide range of tangible business benefits, but don't let these common blunders cast a shadow on your company's success.
Make mine modular: The rise of prefab data centers
When John Campbell talks about Purdue University's soon-to-be implemented modular data center, he can hardly hide his enthusiasm.
Grow your datacentre with colocation
Brian Burch knew the moment had arrived. Two of his datacentre's key services -- availability and business continuity -- needed fast and dramatic improvement. Design and location limitations meant that his company's existing data center couldn't be upgraded to the levels necessary to provide the required function and performance gains.
A hardened approach to system security
Glenn Phillips, president of Pelham, Ala.-based Forté, says that the dedicated Windows workstations his company sells to hospital emergency room administrators must not only be secure, but absolutely tamperproof as well. After all, lives depend on the machines' flawless operation.
Maximizing server uptime: Best practices
In an IT world full of elusive goals, there's probably no target as slippery and generally elusive as server uptime.
Does GPL still matter?
Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications for his company's future. That decision: to toss away his upcoming product's Gnu General Public License (GPL), the best-known and most popular free software license, in favor of what he viewed as a more business-friendly alternative. "We initially started the product with a GPLv3 license and we decided last summer to move the license to Apache," Haynie says.