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• Log analysis tools join data center management arsenal

  The humble log file, produced by nearly everything in your data center, holds the key to complex troubleshooting, convincing capacity plans and revved up performance. Continue Reading

• How to write server documentation

  A data center should be prepared for the worst, but try to avoid that at all costs. Appropriate system documentation helps avoid critical errors. Continue Reading

• Steps to adopt an APM tool in your data center

  A new generation of app management tools ensures optimum workload performance and value for the enterprise. Read this before adopting an APM tool. Continue Reading

• Consolidation is key: IT management best practices

  How do you swap a jumble of different IT methods for a centralized computing approach? IT management best practices move you to consolidate. Continue Reading

• End users matter most with today's performance management

  Application performance management tools focus on the end-user experience and use readily available data and autodiscovery to fulfill those goals. Continue Reading

• DevOps overhauls app dev scripts

  Applications don't run in a vacuum. Operations -- the last step of app development and maintenance -- actually belongs in every stage of the cycle.Continue Reading

• Traditional IT silos face a hostile software-defined environment

  Think you got rid of data center silos when you adopted virtualization? Not so fast. Software-defined data center tools promise more silo-busting.Continue Reading

• The right time to embrace server automation tools

  Understanding your organizations' circumstances and requirements can be the difference between server automation success and failure.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

• How to build an enterprise private cloud that looks better than AWS

  Clouds that enterprises build rarely stack up to AWS and its ilk in a public cloud. Follow these steps if you want a viable private cloud for users.Continue Reading

• Choosing server management tools to fit your data center

  Homogeneous system management tools provide excruciating detail on servers, but in some circumstances, heterogeneous tools are a better choice.Continue Reading

• IT asset management best practices for any data center

  Choosing a data center asset management tool depends on how the infrastructure functions, the mix of hardware and software in action and more factors.Continue Reading

• Scale up vs. scale out: Debate evolves over how to upgrade data centers

  Pick sides on whether to scale up vs. scale out servers. It will establish what method to enhance server performance makes sense for your data center.Continue Reading

• Automating data center environmental monitoring with RFID tags

  Slapping an RFID tag on every server rack in an enterprise data center isn't a small endeavor, but the payoffs in security and DCIM data are big.Continue Reading

• Five tips for selecting system management tools

  Too much granularity? Not enough? Need alerts? Maybe not. There are five considerations for systems management tools -- and cost isn't one of them.Continue Reading