Moving IT support for your business to the cloud means 'our' IT being hosted in a fragmented landscape of data centers. That only looks like a silver bullet if you are short sighted. By Gerben Wierda Organizations -- and especially their IT departments -- all over the world are currently

The writing has been on the wall for years. The evolution from virtualization to DevOps, to containers, to a microservices architecture points to the inevitability of the software-defined data center (SDDC). Try to resist if you like, but stubbornly clinging to the idea of a hardware-defined data center will leave

Hardly a day goes by without receiving a message from a vendor that demeans systems, applications, storage or networking gear by declaring them "legacy." It's clear that in their mind, the term "legacy" is a pejorative and equated with technology that should be abandoned. And, naturally, what they're selling should

Monitoring environmental conditions in the data center is absolutely critical to avoiding disasters, or surviving them. By Paul Venezia Whether we're designing, building, or maintaining data centers, we need to pay attention to a lot more than how and where the bits flow. We also need to know about the