Hyperconvergence-as-a-service offers hands-off data centre management
A managed hyperconvergence service can provide data centre operators with cost benefits, reduced staff workloads, and cloud-related scalability.
Stories by John Edwards
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Streaming telemetry challenges SNMP in large, complex networks
As big, complicated enterprises seek more efficient ways to monitor and troubleshoot their networks, a growing number are looking to streaming network telemetry
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Enterprises opt for different micro-segmentation architectures
As micro-segmentation technology evolves, enterprises are taking different paths toward reaching the same goal: unyielding security.
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Microsegmentation architecture choices and how they differ
Microsegmentation promises to thwart network attackers by curbing their movements and limiting access to enterprise resources. Architecture types include host-agent segmentation, hypervisor segmentation and network segmentation.
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Essential things to know about container networking
Networking is a crucial component in the container ecosystem, providing connectivity between containers running on the same host as well as on different hosts.
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Hybrid cloud management requires new tools, skills
Organisations are turning to hybrid cloud technology for greater agility, security, compliance and other benefits.
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Serverless computing: Ready or not?
Today, as organizations continue to shovel an ever-growing number of services toward cloud providers, on-premises servers seem to be on the verge of becoming an endangered species.
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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.
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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.
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5G versus 4G: how speed, latency and application support differ
5G wireless network technology is set to boost the bandwidth, capacity and reliability of cellular broadband. Are you ready to leave your 4G world behind?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Minimize server-consolidation mistakes
Joe Latrell, IT manager and lead programmer for GetMyHomesValue.com, a real estate data services company in Lancaster, Pa., knows that it's all too easy for even a knowledgeable and experienced IT veteran to make mistakes while managing a complex server-consolidation project. "You have to think about everything," he says. "It can be a minefield."
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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.
