Evaluate

Evaluate

Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

• Application layer security puts up another obstacle for hackers

  Hackers will exploit any entrance to enterprise data they can find. Make sure to erect more than just a network-level fence to ensure nobody crashes the data party. Continue Reading

• How to evaluate tools for configuration management

  Most configuration management tools aim at the same targets, but they employ a variety of techniques to reach those targets. Continue Reading

• Are there IT jobs in cloud capacity management?

  If a company moves only 30% of workloads from its data center to the public cloud, that will reduce IT ops demand. Is there still a role for the ops engineer? Continue Reading

• Not playing games: The GPU vs. CPU question gets more interesting

  Putting thousands of cores to work makes perfect sense when you're powering a video game. But graphics processing units, or GPUs, can't serve much practical purpose in a corporate data center, can they?

  The GPU vs. CPU discussion isn't as odd as ... Continue Reading

• Data at rest security rises in an era of increasing cybercrime

  Data is encrypted and firewalls erected everywhere it travels -- but data at rest in the data center is often left unsupervised. With the rise in cybercrime, this data needs a babysitter. Continue Reading

• Approach an off-premises systems management service with caution

  With an IT platform spread across on-premises and hosted platforms, operations teams need systems management tools that take hybrid integration -- and data security -- seriously.Continue Reading

• Orchestration software: The functions and vendors to watch

  Enterprises must keep their IT processes on track to stay ahead in the DevOps era. Solid orchestration software will pull automation tasks together and accelerate workflows.Continue Reading

• Red Hat performance monitoring service breaks new ground, within limits

  Red Hat Insights performance monitoring SaaS mixes artificial intelligence and Red Hat expertise to get the most use out of ops data.Continue Reading

• The future of containerization goes more abstract

  Containers have benefits over VMs in the data center, but the future of containerization is broader than that.Continue Reading

• SNMP monitoring tools improve how IT looks at application performance

  To better manage application performance, you need to collect the right data. SNMP monitoring has the advantages of wide adoption and compatibility with other monitoring schemes.Continue Reading

• Rounding up orchestration services on the market and what they offer

  IT professionals have many options in orchestration services in terms of capabilities, compatibility, integration and cost. These vendors are diverse in what they offer.Continue Reading

• Container as a service providers compete with distinct strategies

  IT shops contend with changes to networks, monitoring, storage and other ops to deploy containers, and that's where major cloud providers will gladly step in.Continue Reading

• Tools for IT shops seeking full-stack control and unified operations

  IT shops that want to improve monitoring, management and process control should overhaul their -- probably long -- list of tools.Continue Reading

• Top cloud and data center technologies win Impact Awards

  Plenty of data center technologies enter the market, aiming to solve this problem or that problem. (Or every problem, if the hype is to be believed.) But which products really hit the mark? Which ones stand out, coming along at just the right moment...Continue Reading

• Machine learning business applications increase IT productivity

  AI has been a hot topic for decades, but it wasn't until recently that machine learning technology yielded productivity improvement. AI presents unique challenges, but could streamline workflows for businesses.Continue Reading