Boosting the Health of IT with Better Analytics
Strong medicine is usually bitter and preferable to administer to others rather than swallow oneself. Not so with analytics. For maladies that plague modern businesses, there is no better remedy....
View ArticleTechPro TBT: When Mainframes Ruled the World
We hear a lot about big data these days, but not as much about just really big hardware. I’m talking about mainframes. Yes, these are the behemoths that process massive amounts of data and resemble a...
View ArticleOptimizing Cache Memory Performance (And the Math Behind It All)
Cache memory is a basic need generated by the fact that high processor speed can only be utilized if it can access data and instruction in memory quickly enough. Normal memory speed has not kept pace...
View ArticleTechPro Stat of the Week: The Benefits of a Modern Server Infrastructure
I am just going on 30, and my back already hurts. Imagine how bad elderly servers have it after years of abuse from ever-increasing end-user demands. Like the inevitability of growing older, a...
View ArticleDon’t Let an Out-of-Date Corporate Network Lead to Disasters
Disasters can come in many shapes and sizes. At your local movie theater, big budget disaster flicks can include earthquakes, tsunamis, and even aliens and rampaging dinosaurs. But in the world of...
View ArticleWill the New Dell/EMC Dominate the World of IT?
Much has been written about the massive and groundbreaking announcement of Dell’s proposed deal to acquire fellow tech giant EMC. A lot of this has focused on the sheer size of the deal itself, on how...
View ArticleStat of the Week: Top Tech Pressures for Businesses
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that in order for modern businesses to keep up to speed with the competition, they need to be using the fastest and most agile platform for their Internet...
View ArticleTechPro Stat of the Week: Converging on Converged Systems
Aberdeen Group recently spoke to organizations about the state of their server infrastructure, and how converged and hyper-converged technologies are changing their data centers. Here are five key...
View ArticleRethinking Storage Virtualization: The ‘Flat Earth’ Approach
In 2014, virtualization surpassed 50 percent of all server workloads, according to Gartner, which believes it will reach 86 percent in 2016. That’s phenomenal for a relatively young technology. But due...
View ArticleAsteroids and Earthquakes Belong in the Movies, Not in Your IT Ops
I’ll admit that I have an unhealthy infatuation with disaster flicks. It really started with seeing Armageddon in the theaters back in 1998. There may or may not have been some tears shed, too. From...
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