When IT leaders at small and medium-sized businesses hear the term converged infrastructure, they might initially think the technology is suitable for companies with big data centers. But even small ...

“Over the past several years, the emergence of software-defined networking has pushed data center designs to evolve from three-layer topologies to leaf-spine topologies,” said Dave Fredricks, data ...

Organizations have traditionally acquired the biggest servers, storage and networking equipment money could buy, all to get the best performance and capabilities. But with virtualization now making ...

As agencies consider expanding into the cloud and refreshing their infrastructure, reducing costs most often drives their decisions. However, agility and the ability to speed up response time to ...

For cash- and talent-strapped agencies, software-defined data centers bring cost savings and scalability to compute, storage and networking functions. From the CIO’s perspective, hyperconverged ...

In over 30 years of healthcare IT experience, there has been at least one constant: the need to deliver solutions quickly and more cost effectively. This requirement has only escalated over the last ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. When the Technical College System of Georgia ...

Recently, I was scrolling through my twitter feed and I came across an article on TheNextPlatform.com titled, The Evolution of Hyperconverged Storage to Composable Systems. The article discusses the ...

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network Hyperconvergence is all the rage at the moment, promising big things in small packages and the ability to support Big Data and other applications at low ...

2006 was an important year in the annals of cloud computing history. In the spring of 2006, just about 11 years ago, Amazon launched Amazon Web Services, known more commonly as AWS. Initially built to ...

Data centers can be daunting to manage for small and medium-sized businesses with minimal IT staff. However, the market is starting to shift in favor of technology solutions that make such ...