IBM is widening its mainframe range with some narrower models – ZR1 and Rockhopper II – that are skinny enough to fit in a standard 19-inch rack, which will answer criticisms of potential customers that the hulking z14 introduced in July 2017 too big to fit in their data centers (see photo above). In addition […]
Archives for 2018
Pivotal believes IPO will net $592 million
News 10 Apr, 2018 Clare Hopping Dell's cloudy subsidiary details IPO plans in filing
Office 365 outage: Users struggle to sign in
News 9 Apr, 2018 Gabriella Buckner Productivity suite goes offline for European and Australian Microsoft customers
Google Cloud hits 100% renewable energy goal
News 9 Apr, 2018 Clare Hopping The company is replacing every kilowatt hour it uses with a renewable equivalent
Racing to Meet the April 17th Tax Filing Deadline?
Wolters Kluwer Outlines Top Tips for Last-Minute Filers (NEW YORK, NY, April 5, 2018) – Every year, millions of taxpayers scramble to beat the clock at tax time. With the April 17th income tax filing deadline approaching, Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting provides some last-minute tips for taxpayers still looking to file. “Taxpayers have a […]
The Network week in review: April 2 – April 6
The Network week in review: April 2 – April 6 More RSS Feed: newsroom.cisco.com/rss-feeds …
Network-as-a-Service: A modern solution to today’s networking challenges
Traditional networking architectures over the past two decades or so prescribe that the hub of the network be build around a specific location, such as a data center or a company’s headquarters building. This location houses most of the equipment for compute, storage, communications, and security, and this is where enterprise applications are traditionally hosted. […]
Malicious IoT hackers have a new enemy
IoT security is about the farthest thing from a laughing matter in the world of technology today, threatening global trade, privacy and the basic infrastructure of modern society. So you could be forgiven for being taken aback that the newest defender of vulnerable systems against bad actors looks a little like Johnny 5 from the […]
7 free tools every network needs
“I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is ‘the right tool for the right job.’” –Martha Stewart If your “right job” involves wrangling computer networks and figuring out how to do digital things effectively and efficiently or diagnosing why digital things aren’t working as they’re supposed to, you’ve got your hands full. […]
CLOUD Act brings Microsoft’s US data privacy court spat to an end
News 4 Apr, 2018 Jane McCallion DoJ and Redmond giant ask Supreme Court to dismiss Irish data centre case