Hyperconvergence promises the answer to the “data tax”

Earlier this year, when UK domain registrar 123-reg accidentally deleted a lot of servers, it provided a wake-up call on data backup

According to research, hyperconverged infrastructure customers increased time spent on innovation and new projects from 16% to 29%

Both software-defined storage and hyper-converged appliances provide useful tools for supporting the new class of applications

SDN has great potential, but OpenFlow was initially limited by its dependence on expensive memory devices. New ASICs have changed all that

Medieval alchemists never managed the transformations that today’s technologists have achieved

Your data may depend on sticky stuff, so treat it with respect

There’s a lot of talk in the market about hyperconvergence. But what is it, really? And, just as importantly, what doesn’t qualify as hyperconvergence?

In an industry where minutes can mean millions, predictive maintenance should be every company’s sidekick

Sick of hearing how great virtualization is? Here’s the list of reasons why you might virtualize - or stay physical

The hard disk drives of legacy IT keep getting bigger, but their IOPS delivery rate hasn’t kept pace at all

Quality of service is about guarantees. Tech fixes can’t provide that - you need QoS in your architecture 

More servers, or more storage? In simple terms, this is the number one problem for data centres

Google joining Open Compute is more exciting than Spiderman’s appearance in a Captain America movie trailer

Google is sharing its 48VDC power distribution with the Open Compute Project. This will be of limited use in European data centers 

Hyperconverged infrastructure has emerged as one of the few solutions available to keep the data center at peak performance and on budget

Why did Tencent develop its own ‘micro-modular’ data center achitecture?

The refresh cycle of old is ill-suited for today’s virtualized realities. Enterprises need a solution architected for virtualization, not retro-fitted for it.

Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2016, Gartner research director Martina Kurth shares some insights into SDN and NFV

After taking on web-scale data centers, OCP is turning its attentions to the telecoms industry 

AMD is too late, and the whole micro-server revolution may have been cancelled 

SSDs were developed to look and feel like HDDs, but are now finally charting their own course

Cloud operators have to deal with a mess of network standards. Astara hopes to change that

Let’s discuss why VDI hasn’t yet caught on like predicted