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If you’re starting to get a data center up and running, it’s likely that you’ll begin organizing it using openDCIM. This is a free, browser-based data... Read More

Unplanned outages are the worst. One quarter of all companies report that an hour of unplanned downtime now costs between $300,000 and $400,000 – and 15... Read More

Container adoption is making dramatic jumps from year to year. In 2018, fewer than 20 percent of IT organizations had begun to investigate containers, but that... Read More

This is the first entry in our “Guide to Creating a Migration Plan” series. If you didn’t see the series Roadmap Infographic, do check it out.... Read More

It wasn’t long ago that cloud computing seemed poised to eliminate physical data centers. Gartner predicted that by 2025, 80% of enterprises would shut down traditional... Read More

If your business model involves storing customer data in the cloud, you’re strongly incentivized to meet SOC 2 compliance standards. This AICPA (American Institute of CPAs)... Read More

One of the first questions I’m asked about Device42 is where does the name come from. Readers of this blog will, of course, know that the... Read More

A lot of ink has been spilled over the forthcoming end of life dates for Windows 7, but the new year heralds an arguably more critical... Read More

As far as data center hardware is concerned, Cisco is nearly ubiquitous. You’d be hard-pressed to find a data center that doesn’t use at least one... Read More

Things changed a lot in the last ten years. Computer science arguably changed more during the 2010’s than it did during the 90’s. During the 90’s,... Read More