Data Center Management Reports

EBOOK: This 3 part guide covers the top misconceptions that plague SDN, its importance to horizontal scaling and virtues of two SDN technologies: SD-WAN and NFV. In addition, discover how Microsoft aims to be a top contender in the SDN enterprise market.

Posted: 22 Jun 2016 | Published: 22 Jun 2016

EGUIDE: Discover how microsegmentation can break up your data center into logical elements and reduce its susceptibility to catastrophic lateral movement of malicious activity once a breach occurs.

Posted: 21 Jun 2016 | Published: 14 Jun 2016

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, uncover an interview with two security gurus from Illumio, a winner of our Network Innovation Award, on their Adaptive Security Platform (ASP). Learn the basics about this platform, and gain insights on how you can reduce complexity and develop a discerning data center security posture.

Posted: 21 Jun 2016 | Published: 15 Jun 2016

EGUIDE: Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) can smooth out the problems in VDI deployment. However, one problem with HCI adoption is its hefty price tag especially for small and medium businesses skeptical of new technology. Learn about a new, cheaper HCI option for VDI in addition to HCI's ability to smooth out the rough patches of VDI in this e-guide.

Posted: 20 Jun 2016 | Published: 14 Jun 2016

EGUIDE: In this Q&A from Robert Crawford, a mainframe systems programmer with over 34 years of experience, find out answers to general questions which you may be wondering about, such as are IT certifications necessary, how are mainframes evolving, and more.

Posted: 20 Jun 2016 | Published: 15 Jun 2016

EZINE: Are containers an open source lifeline? That remains to be seen, as the technology just might offer a saving grace to the OpenStack infrastructure. Find out how containers are impacting Openstack deployment.

Posted: 16 Jun 2016 | Published: 16 Jun 2016

EZINE: Enterprises must decide whether container orchestration is right for them -- and fast.

Posted: 19 May 2016 | Published: 19 May 2016

EBOOK: Finding the right storage for big data and IoT projects involves careful consideration of use case, file type and other key details.

Posted: 09 May 2016 | Published: 09 May 2016

EZINE: The hype around containers may have reached a fever pitch, but enterprise's weighing how many eggs to put in that basket should consider how well (or how poorly) containers meet their data storage needs before they take things any further. This exclusive issue of the Modern Infrastructure E-Zine takes a look at storage for a containerized world.

Posted: 20 Apr 2016 | Published: 20 Apr 2016

EZINE: Read the latest Modern Infrastructure e-zine to get an exclusive look at this month's feature article, illustrating how DHL expects to develop innovative services for evolving supply chains with their new Asia Pacific Innovation Center. Additionally, read on to discover how cloud providers forge partnerships and alliances in Asean, and more.

Posted: 04 Apr 2016 | Published: 04 Apr 2016

EBOOK: Data center infrastructure management tools provide insight into an organization's facility and IT resources. The challenge is selecting a tool that's easy to use. This handbook explains how DCIM tools can be useful to both IT and facilities teams for gathering data and condensing it into useable information.

Posted: 24 Mar 2016 | Published: 24 Mar 2016

EZINE: In this edition of Modern Infrastructure, senior technology editor Stephen Bigelow discusses the advantages and disadvantages of implementing microsegmentation solutions. Learn more about this new security technology and gain insight into today's trends on cloud backup, disaster recovery, and more.

Posted: 16 Mar 2016 | Published: 16 Mar 2016

EGUIDE: This e-guide highlights what server performance monitoring features you should focus on when selecting tools for your data center's needs and addresses common issues leading up to a new tool acquisition. With the right tools, your enterprise can produce more accurate results that will provide truly valuable insight into your server performance.

Posted: 07 Mar 2016 | Published: 04 Mar 2016

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, experts discuss the rising popularity of hyper-converged infrastructures and some of the key features that draw users to these architectures, including flash storage capabilities, hyper-scale optimized servers, simplicity, and more. Read on to find out how new emerging hyper-converged solutions will affect the market in the future.

Posted: 03 Mar 2016 | Published: 29 Feb 2016

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, expert George Crump outlines what you need to look at within your own infrastructure when considering hyper-converged, including how far you are down the virtualization path, the number of VMs you need to run your business, and more. Read on and you will also learn the benefits hyper-converged can offer to your enterprise.

Posted: 03 Mar 2016 | Published: 29 Feb 2016

EGUIDE: As the number of VMs exploded, so did the complexity of the infrastructure required to support VMs. To tame this complexity, users have two options: converged vs. hyper-converged storage. In this e-guide, you will examine the differences between each—such as IT integration approaches and limitations, and which environments each best suits.

Posted: 24 Feb 2016 | Published: 19 Feb 2016

EGUIDE: IT professionals are rethinking their assumptions about how to approach their on-premises infrastructure needs -- especially storage. In this e-guide, you will discover why hyperconverged systems prove a viable alternative to SAN and learn how small IT environments can integrate these appliances if they can't stomach a full-fledged SAN.

Posted: 19 Feb 2016 | Published: 19 Feb 2016

EGUIDE: This e-guide highlights expert tips on tackling hybrid cloud challenges surrounding security and compliance, account management and billing, and resource provisioning. Read on to learn how your enterprise can take advantage of public cloud by implementing a reliable, compliant hybrid cloud strategy.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 | Published: 08 Feb 2016

EZINE: How do you determine if it is better for your infrastructure to stay on-premises or move to the cloud? This exclusive issue of the Modern Infrastructure e-zine takes a look at this question and details when and where the cloud works and whether you should consider keeping your infrastructure on-premises.

Posted: 17 Feb 2016 | Published: 17 Feb 2016

EBOOK: Simplicity and pre-configured components are key attributes of a hyper-converged product. But is HCI right for your business? This handbook explores the advantages and disadvantages of hyper-converged infrastructure.

Posted: 12 Feb 2016 | Published: 12 Feb 2016

EGUIDE: This e-guide illustrates how virtual desktops can aid graphics-heavy apps, and will help you discover how GPU virtualization can aid app performance, and ease BYOD management. Access this guide to get an exclusive look at Nvidia vGPU support and its accommodation of VDI graphics demands.

Posted: 12 Feb 2016 | Published: 08 Feb 2016

EGUIDE: Find out how white boxing servers have led to converged infrastructures becoming a hot alternative and why convergence is providing a way to end white boxing. Also, experts share their hands-on experiences of whether or not converged infrastructure products lived up to their hype.

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 | Published: 04 Feb 2016

EGUIDE: An aging data center may no longer be able to meet the power, cooling, and structural demands of advancing technologies. This exclusive e-guide details five data center upgrade strategies to modernize your facility and Robert McFarlane, with over 35 years experience in data center design, power, and cooling, offers data center design advice.

Posted: 05 Feb 2016 | Published: 03 Feb 2016

EGUIDE: Fixing mistakes in a data center after it's running is challenging, expensive, and operationally dangerous. This exclusive e-guide provides a guide to data center design to help you properly establish requirements from the beginning and details what experts are saying about the evolving data center layout.

Posted: 05 Feb 2016 | Published: 03 Feb 2016

EGUIDE: What will the data center look like in five years? In this exclusive e-guide, you will get an inside look at the future of the data center, and examine how networking, servers and storage technologies evolve. Access this guide to see an additional article identifying why hybrid system integration is now a core IT service.

Posted: 27 Jan 2016 | Published: 26 Jan 2016