"Configuration / maintenance" news, interviews, and features

News about Configuration / maintenance

• Don't look for Google to make big, quick changes after Alphabet pronouncement

  The declaration Monday that saw Google reorganize under the banner of new holding company Alphabet was Big News, we all seem to agree, but it's ...

• Cisco indirect infringement case against Arista dismissed

  Patent and copyright litigation continues; Cisco OK with the ruling

• IBM Power Systems GM: Big scale and big data demand OpenPower

  According to the conventional wisdom, Power was another victim – along with SPARC and, to a lesser extent, ARM – of the inexorable march of ...

• Coal plant fires, Google hires

  Google is building a $600 million data center on the grounds of a soon-to-close coal plant in northeastern Alabama. The project may create an iconic ...

• One in three datacentre servers is a zombie

  A new study says that 30 per cent of all physical servers in data centers are comatose, meaning they use energy but deliver no useful ...

• Five network trends challenging the enterprise

  As cloud computing, big data and the deployment of mega-scale data centers accelerates, organizations need to continually recalibrate and evolve the network. This challenge has ...

Interviews about Configuration / maintenance

• The future of networking is a NOS on your choice of bare metal, says Cumulus Networks

  If Cumulus Networks has its way, companies will use its Cumulus Linux to decouple the network operating system from the hardware

• Cloud computing causing rethinking of disaster recovery

  IBM's Richard Cocchiara gives his perspective

• Google making steady progress in the enterprise

  Google Enterprise is winning converts to everything from its productivity tools to its cloud offerings

• UEFI president: We need more key providers

  UEFI Forum chief Mark Doran explains how UEFI works and addresses the criticisms around Microsoft's use of UEFI Secure Boot

Features about Configuration / maintenance

• The top 10 supercomputers in the world, 20 years ago

  The Top500 list from June 1995 shows just how far the possibilities of silicon have come in the past 20 years. Performance figures are listed ...

• Tech Media Watch: HBO's "Silicon Valley" set to wrap 2nd season – it won't be "Game Of Thrones"-esque but it'll do

  The far-and-away best satire of the technology industry on TV airs the last episode of its second season Sunday night, and you really should be ...

• Top distributed computing projects still hard at work fighting the world's worst health issues

  Thanks to thousands of strangers, Ebola researchers are getting the help and computing power they need to shave off the time needed to find new ...

• Will network disaggregation play in the enterprise?

  Disaggregation seems to be all the rage in networking these days.

• Debunking the myths about scale-up architectures

  Given the rapid pace of server design innovation, earlier concerns about scale-up servers no longer hold water

• Debunking SSD Myths

  Despite the huge gains that solid-state drives are making, some myths persist, all unjustified