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• Production workloads go boldly to the cloud

  Some enterprises are charging ahead with a cloud-first approach to their workloads -- not just test and dev, but production workloads as well. That strategy has worked well for several IT departments with varying needs, as featured in this April ... Continue Reading

• Applying the right incident management process averts trouble

  This free book excerpt will show you how to prevent server failure with monitoring, change, problem and incident management processes. Continue Reading

• Cloud-native apps trigger a sea change in private cloud deployment

  Cloud-native applications have brought about a wave of change in private cloud deployments, forcing IT pros to sink or swim. Continue Reading

• Successful DevOps practices from the start

  Here's all you need to know to get started with DevOps, from identifying goals and roadblocks, to useful tools to scale DevOps to the next level. Continue Reading

• BlackBerry, Dell execs answer mobile, cloud questions in #TechCIT chat

  Miss our #TechCIT Tweet Chat? Here's a recap of what execs from BlackBerry, Dell, IBM and Microsoft said about their mobile and cloud strategies. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • AIOps (artificial intelligence for IT operations)
  • continuous deployment
  • container image
  • chaos engineering

  • hands-off infrastructure management
  • Ansible
  • Chef (software)
  • SaltStack

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• What does the next big thing in technology mean for the data center?

  With modern technology, it's hard to pinpoint one single next big thing, but there are plenty of options ready to wreak havoc on the data center.Continue Reading

• friendly name

  A friendly name is the title given to an application file, certificate or other IT asset so that a person easily understands and remembers it.Continue Reading

• For DR, cloud is the great equalizer

  Disaster recovery is hard and expensive, based on the many enterprises with partial -- or no -- DR plans. But cloud computing is bringing DR to the masses.
  
  The first step in cloud disaster recovery (DR) may be data protection -- ...Continue Reading

• phased rollout

  Phased rollout is a hardware or software migration method that involves incremental implementation of a new system. A phased migration might be conducted either by implementing the entire new system in some locations or business units or by ...Continue Reading

• policy engine

  A policy engine is a software component that allows an organization to create, monitor and enforce rules about how network resources and the organization's data can be accessed.  Continue Reading

• A look inside the DevOps movement

  DevOps is a culture, not a job or procedure for an IT team. That said, there are DevOps tools and organizational strategies to help you get there.Continue Reading

• In the cloud, big data's a big deal

  Trends like big data and cloud computing are changing the face of traditional data center computing. Big data enables data centers to make sense of large volumes of unstructured data. Cloud computing gives them access to scalable infrastructure ...Continue Reading

• What do you know about workload management tools?

  Using workload management tools is a step toward an efficient data center. How well do you know your workload automation options?Continue Reading

• Zabbix

  Zabbix is an open-source tool designed to monitor networks, servers, appliances and other hardware through a Linux-based server, which communicates to the native agents that are available for many operating systems, including Linux, UNIX and Windows.Continue Reading

• bare-metal provisioning

  Bare-metal provisioning is the process of installing an operating system (OS) or Type 1 hypervisor directly on a computer's hardware. Continue Reading