Dell Technologies has introduced its first all-flash object storage appliance, saying the perception that object file storage is “slow, cheap and deep” is changing as the massive growth of unstructured data makes enterprises more inclined to use high-performance storage for object-based applications. The company is adding a new appliance, called the EXF900, to the Dell EMC ECS EX-Series lineup. It claims the EXF900 has the highest performance of the ECS range of appliances, but that’s…

Two very useful tools for extracting essential details on your Linux system OS and hardware are screenfetch and geofetch. Each of these tools is actually a lengthy bash script that fetches the information from your system for you and presents it in an attractive manner with the distribution logo on the left and details on the right–essentially “screen shots” of your system. Neither is likely to be installed on your system by default, but each…

While Todd Nightingale has been Cisco’s Enterprise Networking & Cloud business chief since March, some of the directions he wants to take the company’s biggest business unit—namely superior cloud-neutral orchestration and automation—are already evident. The COVID-19 pandemic and the enterprise response to it are big drivers for near-future enterprise networking technology. But the ideas of cloud  connectivity and pushing simplicity and agility in the network, while they are already important, implementation has accelerated for most…