The latest generation data centers includes DPUs as well as CPUs and GPUs. So what is a DPU? Why are they vital for digital transformation and the “fourth revolution?"

More work-per-watt potentially means a better use of real estate, which can be a premium cost in cities or at the edge

Rising chip and rack densities are a key driver for liquid cooling, but there are other reasons you may want to consider the technology

The fundamental business principles of semiconductor chip design are no longer relevant

There is a high possibility that colocation facilities will become some of the first existing data centers to house this new generation of machines

It is possible to recover data from a broken storage device - but there are plently of ways to avoid this situation altogether

The rate of innovation is astounding when it comes to data resiliency, compression and de-duplication

Moving data from on-premises to the public cloud, sometimes one must move it back again

Not long ago, 500TB of data was a concern for a Fortune 500 company. Today, it is a problem for SMBs

When it comes to selecting a flash storage vendor, it’s wise to understand some of the age-old sales tricks and techniques

Evaluated on the metrics of performance, flexibility, reliability, scalability and security, Ethernet surpasses Fibre Channel on every count today

Composable disaggregated infrastructure complements virtualization and SDI technologies to provide the efficiency and agility that today’s hyperscale data centers demand

Exascale-capable storage systems exist, and can teach us about the future of computing

Data centers remain significantly underutilized despite ever-rising demand. A composable disaggregated data center infrastructure resolves this paradox

In my opinion, the world of data center acceleration is moving to FPGA-based solutions

There are, today, some very specific applications where using flash and tape is by far the most cost-effective storage setup

Here’s why static, double-conversion online UPSs use transformerless technology

It’s time to think inside the box - an alternative take on the results of Ekkosense’s ASHRAE survey

The world’s superpowers are locked in a fierce battle, but they must keep an eye on security

Understanding what it takes to embrace high performance computing

It may have lost the public cloud fight, but OpenStack’s strength in private cloud will stand it in good stead

Transitioning to software-defined infrastructure brings operational efficiency, improves agility and cuts costs. What are you waiting for?

Now there’s another open standard at the data center rack level. Will Open19 get on with the Open Compute Project?

Standardized IT pod architectures can offer many advantages to hyperscale and colocation data centers

With edge solutions, it is no longer necessary to have huge amounts of data carried upstream into the network to a mega-data center

IT experts and facilities managers are in separate silos right now, but there won’t be room for both of them in the data center of the future 

Commoditized standard hardware can actually enhance the variety on offer: consider Microsoft and Facebook’s Open Compute strategies

By abstracting the provisioning of storage, organizations can begin to analyze and monitor their storage environment much more effectively