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Lenovo's ThinkEdge edge computing portfolio ranges from core data centers to branch office local/closet data centers to far edge servers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As cloud customers enter 2023 with an increased presence in multicloud, they are prioritizing strategies to combat emerging gaps in cloud security. Most large companies are accessing cloud services in several public clouds, while retaining enterprise systems and private clouds in their company's data centers. Many are using at least two cloud service providers (CSPs), [...] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We shine a spotlight on some of the brightest stars in the Enterprise IT constellation, across sectors ranging from data analytics to data center switches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jonathan Guy, VP of Engineering for RF Code, discusses the challenges and potential of distributed computing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If daunting cloud costs make you consider simply using your data center, realize that the cloud isn't just about cost savings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Manish Mehta, Chief Product Officer, Ontic Technologies, discusses protective intelligence software, which collects and manages data about facilities like offices buildings and data centers.An expert discusses protective intelligence software, a growing sector that leverages software to protect facilities like offices buildings and data centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Industry observers who believes Kyndryl is little more than an IBM stand-in or purveyor of stodgy data center services might want to reconsider those assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The challenge with Big Data continues to center around getting the right information to the right people at the right time, even as information sources and uses grow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Karl Strohmeyer, Chief Customer and Revenue Officer for Equinix, provides a portrait of the rapidly evolving IT infrastructure market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SVP & GM at HPE Greenlake, Keith White, talks cloud storage, data centers, the future of the cloud & more. Watch now. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Monumental changes happened in 2020 that are setting the stage for a permanent impact on security at the edge. As more and more data continues to be pushed outside of the traditional data center to the edge, many devices connecting to corporate networks are contributing to an increase in cloud computing adoption. This has also [...] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK TOP COMPANIES: A lot of innovation continues to surface in the networking infrastructure world. The enterprise network also has undergone significant change in the last decade, thanks to increasing software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, network-function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined WAN (SD-WAN). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK NETWORKING NEWS: Partner ExteNet to enable high-capacity fiber connectivity and diverse routes at 14 Evoque data centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PHOTO (COLOR): 1088 ManandedServiceProviders As the growing COVID-19 pandemic has pushed more and more companies into cloud services and remote collaboration applications they hadn't planned to encounter quite this soon, the enterprise managed services market has had to react in a big way. The company enables clients in more than 50 countries; it claims its mission is to help enterprises renew themselves while also creating new avenues to generate value. During the next three years, the company is planning to go all-digital, with the CEO saying that 100 percent of the company's resources are being allocated to the digital operations goal. [Extracted from the article]

Also, IT organizations need to stop thinking about network silos where there is a WiFi network, campus network, WAN, data center network and branch network. Aruba's new solutions, combined with HPE's infrastructure components, can greatly simplify the evolution of data centers to centers of data. [Extracted from the article]

PHOTO (COLOR): Juniper.Apstra.logos Juniper Networks this week announced its intent to acquire Apstra, a pioneer in data center intent-based networking (IBN). Juniper already had a strong SD-WAN solution with Contrail, but the addition of 128 Technology has enabled Juniper to shift from SD-WAN to an AI-driven WAN. [Extracted from the article]

PHOTO (COLOR): DreamWorks Cementing relationships with well-known companies is something most every IT vendor hopes to achieve. At Lenovo's recent Tech World conference, the company announced that animation leader DreamWorks Animation had chosen Lenovo's Data Center Group (DCG) to update its legacy data center. Let's consider what likely drove DreamWorks' decision and why Lenovo is the right vendor for the job. [Extracted from the article]

eWEEK NEW-PRODUCT ANALYSIS: New workstation from NVIDIA brings accelerated computing capabilities to workgroups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA POINTS: What goes into building a custom data center and what to evaluate when considering your own. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA CENTER ANALYSIS: Lenovo is aiding "data-centered" enterprise customers with mission-critical high-performance data analytics (HPDA) systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA CENTER CASE STUDY AND INNOVATION PERSPECTIVE: The Williams Formula 1 racing team needs its data center wherever it goes, and while processing in the cloud helps, for some uses the data center needs to be with the team at trackside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA POINTS: Both flash storage and GPU manufacturers are impressed with the next generation of PCI Express (PCIe 4.0), soon to go live in data centers globally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK IT HARDWARE ANALYSIS: Since the System z15 launch on Sept. 12, 2019, IBM has reported that it has "shipped the highest MIPS (millions of instructions per second – a measure of raw compute power being used on Z mainframes) in history in Q4 2019, driven by growth in new workloads." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA POINTS: The ecosystem around GPU computing is rapidly evolving to increase the efficiency and scalability of GPU workloads. Yet there are tricks to maximizing the more costly GPU utilization while avoiding potential choke points in storage and networking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA POINTS: With the current pandemic, many firms have begun offloading functions to data centers' in-house staff, in what is known as Remote Hands. Drew Leonard, VP/Strategy at Evoque Data Center Solutions does a deep dive into Remote Hands and answers why more companies are asking data centers to implement this solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK NEWS ANALYSIS: New Linux-based network operating system and an intent-based automation and operations toolkit for developers will allow cloud and data center builders to scale and adapt operations in the face of year-over-year exponential traffic growth [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK TOP COMPANIES: The enterprise network has undergone significant change in the last decade, thanks to increasing software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, network-function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined WAN (SD-WAN). Here is eWEEK's listing of the top 10 companies in switch devlopment as of summer 2020. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK ANALYSIS: Triumvirate's new offering maximizes the experience and contributions of all three companies, resulting in a valuable solution for mobile operators and enterprises leveraging mobile infrastructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK EXPERT PERSPECTIVES: The current COVID-19 pandemic shift presents new challenges for IT departments, such as connecting a distributed, remote workforce to business apps and services both in data centers and in the cloud. All employees and their home networks are now treated as remote branches that IT must support with existing resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK NETWORKING SECTOR ANALYSIS: When things are good with Cisco, the market is generally solid. When things are weak with Cisco, the same can be said for the entire industry. Fortunately, Cisco's doing well at this time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As COVID-19 concerns drive enterprises to embrace remote access solutions, cybersecurity may fall on the wayside unless those enterprises adopt secure access solutions that do much more than traditional VPNs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK PRODUCT ANALYSIS: Lenovo's new and updated edge-to-cloud ThinkAgile HCI and ThinkSystem storage solutions, which optimally leverage Microsoft Azure's cloud services, are good examples of how vendors are helping their customers gain the full advantage of enterprise edge computing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Compuware, once the largest tech company in Michigan and since 1973 a provider of mainframe application development, delivery and support solutions, will bring added data center expertise to its new owner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK Q&A: Stephen Leonard has a rather big job at IBM: He is responsible for the development, sales and marketing of the company's Power Systems solutions, as well as offerings for cloud computing platforms and data centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How Big Switch beefs up Arista's packet broker strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Switzerland-based company's acquisition of Sqooba provides granular network visibility for its cloud-based platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK NEWS ANALYSIS: Dell EMC is moving to the head of the IT class in eco-consciousness, among other important long-range initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Serverless actually delivers on the promises the Docker or container movement has been making. Write your application and let someone else worry about infrastructure, patching, security and scalability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

JOIN US: This is a chat-based conversation about how IT is rapidly evolving into a new phase that may turn out to be as important as, if not more important than, the cloud itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's expected among industry analysts that this launch will make a huge impact upon the data center storage industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

VMware and Oracle—sworn enemies for years, though not in the open source world—are now playing nicely together in catering to all those thousands of customers globally who are using them both in the data center and in the cloud. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's all about consistency. VMware's new solutions aim to help organizations migrate, modernize and manage workloads across clouds, data centers and edge locations with consistent hybrid cloud infrastructure and operations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Software-defined adaptive architecture solves fundamental hardware utilization problems for VMware vSAN and enterprise VDI deployments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK PRODUCT ANALYSIS RESOURCE PAGE: Take a closer look at Lenovo's latest data center solutions and how they make the most out of AMD's new EPYC silicon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PRODUCT RESOURCE PAGE: Over the years the average performance for AMD's data center chips has improved around 15% per year. This new generation blows the curve out; instead of 15% year-over-year improvement, it is closer to 100%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

TREND ANALYSIS: The future of commercial supercomputing may finally be near. Despite years of rosy predictions, significant CAPEX investments and painful energy related OPEX costs have limited businesses' interest in these solutions. With Pangea III, IBM has proven that it can successfully deliver topline performance with bottom-line benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NEW PRODUCT DETAIL: Arista, best known as a data center networking vendor, is bringing its advanced capabilities to the campus edge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here is a detailed, side-by-side account of data center managed services market leaders in this eWEEK Top Companies article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the opening of its new San Jose, Calif. headquarters HPE showed off advances in security, big data and artificial intelligence as well as a new approach to wooing big corporate customers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA POINTS: We present several examples of efficient and sustainable energy innovations that are transforming the data center industry from a power-guzzler to one of energy efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]