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Datacentre systems management

Ahead in the Clouds

Datacentre managers on how to address the shortage of women and young people entering the industry
Caroline Donnelly Senior Editor, UK 27 Jun 2017

Anglia Ruskin University invited Ahead in the Clouds along to their recent boot camp to lead a two-way discussion with its Datacentre Leadership and Management students about how to address the ...
Open Source Insider

Splicing data machinery -- what is scale-out data processing, really?
Adrian Bridgwater 21 Jul 2016

Splice Machine is an open source RDBMS (relational database management system) powered by Hadoop and Spark. The firm’s latest product updates paint something of an interesting picture in terms of ...
Ahead in the Clouds

Datacentre management: Taking a Rubik’s Cube approach to hypervisor fine-tuning
Caroline Donnelly Senior Editor, UK 20 Jun 2016

In this guest post, Frank Denneman, Chief Technologist at PernixData, advises operators to apply Rubik Cube-solving strategies to datacentre management problems. When attempting to solve a Rubik’s ...

Shell, Halliburton, Unibap AB execs share real-world AI strategies

Technology advances like quantum computing mean AI's best years are still to come, but that doesn't mean companies aren't already...

What's the difference between RPA and IPA?

To prepare for robotic process automation combined with the more sophisticated intelligent process automation, CIOs first need to...

The technological evolution of IT industry leaders: 2000 - 2020

As technology has shifted since 2000, so have IT leaders. This guide looks at how Oracle, Cisco, Dell and SAP have adapted to ...

SearchSecurity

DOJ takes action against Dridex malware group, Evil Corp

The U.S. Justice Department indicted two alleged members of the Russian threat group behind the Dridex banking Trojan, known as ...

Session cookie mishap exposed HackerOne private reports

A security researcher used a mishandled session cookie to access private HackerOne bug reports with an account takeover attack ...

NSS Labs drops antitrust suit against AMTSO, Symantec and ESET

NSS Labs dropped its antitrust suit against the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, Symantec and ESET, ending a ...

SearchNetworking

Assess the Wi-Fi 6 features available in Wave 1 and Wave 2

Catch up on the different features available with the first wave of Wi-Fi 6, including OFDMA and Target Wake Time, and find out ...

3 networking startups rearchitect routing

Networking startups Arrcus, DriveNets and Volta Networks help service providers redefine routing in the data center and at the ...

A deep dive into the differences between 4G and 5G networks

Yes, 4G and 5G network architectures will differ, but organizations may not see change for some time. This feature explores 4G ...

SearchDataCenter

Top 4 open source automation tools for admins

Open source offerings are an easy way to bring automation into your organization. When selecting software, evaluate the user ...

U.S. facility may have best data center PUE

The data center energy efficiency metric, power usage effectiveness, or PUE, is not improving. But one supercomputer data center ...

Increase efficiency with data center temperature monitoring

Data centers must track multiple temperature components. Organizations can use ASHRAE standards and on-premises hardware for ...

SearchDataManagement

Amazon cloud database and data analytics expand

AWS expands its Redshift data warehouse capabilities including managed storage and query acceleration at the re:Invent 2019 ...

Vendors move away from open source database software licensing

While open source is a key to success for many database vendors, it can also potentially lead to a competitive threat from a ...

Oracle looks to grow multi-model database features

Decade after decade, Oracle continues to be relevant in the database market as it pivots to include an expanding list of ...