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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?

CIO Business Intelligence

The comparison of VMware to mainframes started as a bit of a joke for Gartner vice president analyst Michael Warrilow but the analogy holds up, to a point, he says. The comparison works a bit, maybe from a stickiness perspective, because customers have built their applications and workload using virtualization technology on VMware, he says.

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HP redefines PC refresh approach using performance data

CIO Business Intelligence

Through this evaluation and performance-ranking process, HP recognised the opportunity, both internally and for HP customers, to avoid replacing hardware that still performed well and supported user productivity. This method also helps maximise the value of existing PC assets and minimise budget waste.

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Minimizing the negative impact of IT through design and circularity

CIO Business Intelligence

On average, our products are designed to give you a minimum useful life of 10 years—5 years availability in-market, and 5 years of hardware warranty and software support. billion in the last 3 years directly back to customer budgets. To put it in perspective, over the last three years, HPE Financial Services returned approximately $1.3

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5 network automation startups to watch

Network World

AliroNet Quickstart includes quantum network hardware devices along with software that handles orchestration, control, and data plane operations. Forrester found that 72% of global companies exceeded their set cloud budgets in the last fiscal year, and public cloud spending is forecast to top $1 trillion globally by 2026.

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EU moves toward regulating data center energy and water use

CIO Business Intelligence

By comparison, 1 megawatt of power is enough to power 750 to 1,000 homes for a year. A hyperscale data center can use up to 200 million gallons of water per year to cool its hardware, and nearly all that water evaporates, making it impossible to recycle. Even a small data center can use six to seven million gallons per year.

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A Guide to Choosing the Best SCADA Software for Your Organization

SecureWorld News

Assessment of current infrastructure: Second, you must review your existing systems such as hardware and protocols (e.g. Analysis of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): You must ensure budget consistency, and to achieve this, understand the factors in basic licensing, training, maintenance, and potential expansion costs.

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Servers/Hardware. Until the 1.3

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