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Data Center

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opinion

Chief data officers are moving from defense to offense

An MIT conference panel reveals a shift in thinking toward big data regulatory and compliance reporting, and the expanding role of the CDO in the board room.

Aug 7, 2017
Compliance Data Center IT Governance
opinion

Data is your biggest digital hurdle. DataOps will help you clear it

The complexities of handling data often derail even the best plans for digital transformation. Delphix says it has found a better way forward.

Jul 20, 2017
Data Management Devops Virtualization
feature

What are containers and why do you need them?

Containers are a solution to the problem of how to get software to run reliably when moved from one computing environment to another. Here's what you need to know about this popular technology.

Jun 27, 2017
IT Strategy Open Source Virtualization
opinion

CIOs say IT can better back up their organizations

In the wake of British Airways' IT failure, CIOs need to be asking themselves what they can do to better prepare their organizations to weather these types of business disruptions.

Jun 19, 2017
Data Center IT Strategy
brandpost Sponsored byBMC

Accelerating Organizational Velocity through a Data Center Autopilot

BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management solutions, powered by BMC Helix ITSM and BMC Helix Digital Workplace, enabled Balfour Beatty to consolidate its service catalog, improve IT capabilities, and integrate its current systems.

Jul 7, 2023 3 mins
Data Center Automation
opinion

Accelerating Organizational Velocity through a Data Center Autopilot

In my last post, I talked about the idea of software-defined databases u2013 what we're beginning to see called Elastic SQL databases. In this post, we'll talk about the ramifications such an innovation would have.

Jun 16, 2017
Cloud Computing Data Center
opinion

IBM, Lenovo and Cisco take top marks in server reliability

Oracle continues to disappoint managers dealing with aging hardware and looking for greater reliability, support and uptime.

Jun 13, 2017
Data Center Servers
opinion

How DevOps changes the delivery of IT functions

The business construct of digital business models changes the value of labor arbitrage-based third-party service contracts

Jun 13, 2017
Business IT Alignment Small and Medium Business Technology Industry
opinion

Two ITIL processes that will protect your existence

Why have many organizations implemented only four or five of the 26 defined IT infrastructure library (ITIL) 2011 best-practice processes given the strength and magnitude of guidance in the ITIL IT service life cycle?

Jun 9, 2017 5 mins
Data Center IT Skills ITSM
opinion

Data center automation and the software-defined database

Cloud data centers are not static environments, pre-provisioned to run a known, finite set of workloads to support predictable demand. They are highly dynamic environments in which everything is changing all the time. At scale. Which makes automatio

Jun 8, 2017 6 mins
Cloud Computing Data Center
tip

3 keys to keeping your data lake from becoming a data swamp

Data lakes can store all your business data with ease, but beware: That massive repository can get bogged down, choking off your users. Hereu2019s how to prevent your data lake from turning into a data swamp.

Jun 8, 2017
Big Data Data Warehousing Hadoop