Although the mainframe continues to be a foundational technology for the Fortune 100 and many other large companies, agility has seldom been one of its top attributes. This situation has resulted in many organizations attempting to move off the platform…
Stratoscale, the cloud infrastructure company that delivers an AWS-compatible region within the data center, announced the results from its hybrid cloud survey. With responses from more than 650 IT professionals, the survey uncovered industry preferences for public and private cloud…
When strategic initiatives launch, there is usually a massive communications plan internally and even externally—and then everyone expects immediate results. Unfortunately, however, more than 70% of strategic initiatives fail owing to a complex environment, unclear strategies and disempowered employees. To…
MEF, the driving force enabling agile, assured, and orchestrated Third Network services, is extending its work to standardize SD-WAN managed services. MEF is defining SD-WAN service terminology, components, and implementations in the context of MEF’s LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration) Reference…
Industry Outlook is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry Outlook talks with Bernd Harzog, CEO and founder of OpsDataStore,…
Proponents of the Lustre file system, which powers many of the world’s fastest supercomputers, gathered last month on the Indiana University Bloomington campus for the annual Open Scalable File Systems Lustre User Group, or LUG, meeting. LUG is the premier…
