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Cisco has added a new class of servers to its Unified Computing System that are more flexible and outfitted with management software geared to hybrid cloud. The UCS X-Series is the first major redisign since UCS hit the market in 2009. The company says the modular hardware architecture is future-proofed because it can accomodate new generations of processors, storage, nonvolatile memory, accelerators, and interconnects as they come along. Prior UCS chassis were either blade systems…

Cisco has added a new class of servers to its Unified Computing System that are more flexible and outfitted with management software geared to hybrid cloud. The UCS X-Series is the first major redisign since UCS hit the market in 2009. The company says the modular hardware architecture is future-proofed because it can accomodate new generations of processors, storage, nonvolatile memory, accelerators, and interconnects as they come along. Prior UCS chassis were either blade systems…

Data center capacity has historically been a technology concern focused on compute, storage, and power resources. But it now has a fourth vector: Humans. IT specialists are in extremely high demand and disconcertingly short supply. They’re responsible for an increasingly complex mix of infrastructure and applications, which in many cases have branched beyond the data center and are now distributed among cloud, colocation, branch office, and edge environments. And more than ever, technologists have been…

Super Micro Computer, a.k.a. Supermicro, is adding a range of liquid cooling solutions to its server products. Working with customers, Supermicro will design, implement and test the latest liquid cooling technologies at the rack level. Customers who implement liquid cooling can improve data center PUE (power usage effectiveness) and TCO by more than 40% by cutting power costs, the company says. The cooling is for new systems coming to market. Like most OEMs that support…

We’ve all seen how the pandemic has changed the way state and local governments work and how they’re delivering services to the people of their communities. We’ve also watched as it accelerated changes in the public sector workplace, impacting which technologies are adopted—and how they’re used—the effects of which will be felt for decades. People call it the “next normal” but the truth is it’s long overdue. The future of work is now here. It’s…

To many of us, Morpheus is a character played by Laurence Fishburne in The Matrix movies. To others, Morpheus is the Greek god of sleep and dreams. To others still, Morpheus is a digital synthesizer from the early ‘90s that developed a cult following.The Morpheus we’re discussing today, however, is of far greater relevance to enterprise IT professionals who constantly are searching for ways to protect their networks from the ever-present threat of hackers. Developed…

This blog is a follow up to a previous one on IST (Intersight Service for Terraform) and VM Provisioning. Let’s continue our exploration of programmable infrastructures with our next use case. First, here are some numbers to set the context “By 2025, 85% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 35% in 2019”Gartner: “Best Practices for Running Containers and Kubernetes in Production.” Published 4…

Before the pandemic, industries were turned upside down as a digital transformation wave forced IT departments to think of new ways to implement services and address this new business challenge. When business travel starts up again, each of us will see examples: taxi’s replaced by Uber and Lyft; newspapers replaced by a smartphone; radio replaced by Spotify. Each industry struggles to remain relevant. The impact on IT?  The huge growth in applications that draw data…

IT executives have experienced few absolute drop-dead dates to implement new services in their careers.  Many of us remember the excitement Y2K caused the industry as time marched on at the turn of the century over 20 years ago. Technology teams had to deliver by January 1, 2000, and they did!  Last March, COVID had the same impact.  Overnight, IT organizations had to enable their workforces to work from home on almost any connected device…

At last, the wait for 5G is nearly over. As this map shows, coverage is widespread across much of the U.S., in 24 EU countries, and in pockets around the globe. The new wireless standard is worth the wait. Compared to 4G, the new wireless standard can move more data from the edge, with less latency. And connect many more users and devices—an important development given that the IDC estimates 152,000 new Internet of Things…