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CIO Data Center Sep 28, 2016 Microsoft commits to running data centers off 50% renewable energy by 2018 Microsoft announced it plans to run its data centers off 50% renewable energy by 2018. The company's worldwide production, licensing and logistic centers already run off 100% renewable energy. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • What's Driving Your Data Center Decisions? • The best new features in Windows Server 2016 • Citrix wins VDI shootout • Review: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 steps up security, cloud support • Nutanix CEO skewers box-based hyperconvergence rivals • GitHub open-sources internal load-balancing software White Paper: Red Hat Modernizing Application Delivery with Container Platforms An effective adoption program - using practices guided by experience - can lead organizations to successful container-based software delivery infrastructure. Read More ▶ What's Driving Your Data Center Decisions? Converged Data Center Survey Results Read More ▶ The best new features in Windows Server 2016 From Docker-driven containers and Nano Server to software-defined storage and networking improvements, the next version of Windows Server is packed with great new features Read More ▶ Citrix wins VDI shootout Virtual Desktop Interface is becoming easier to do, with potentially killer graphics, reasonable port virtualization, fine-grained administrative control, and with potential hosts other than Windows. Read More ▶ Review: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 steps up security, cloud support Large shops will find many reasons for making the switch. Businesses of other sizes might have to do a pretty thorough cost-benefit analysis given the new pricing structure. Read More ▶ Nutanix CEO skewers box-based hyperconvergence rivals Nutanix founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey doesn't want you to get too excited by today's hyperconverged infrastructure offerings because they're just 'a pit stop' on the way to making all infrastructure invisible. Pandey, whose company is preparing for an initial public offering, talked with IDG Chief Content Officer John Gallant about the competitive landscape in hyperconvergence today and he pulled no punches in assessing rivals like Simplivity and VCE. Read More ▶ GitHub open-sources internal load-balancing software GitHub Load Balancer was originally created to handle Git's billions of daily connections Read More ▶ Research/Infographic: HPE and Microsoft 4 Steps to a Modernized & Optimized IT Infrastructure Today's technology innovations-mobile, social, cloud, and big data-are changing the value and role of IT. At the same time, market inflections and events are driving the need for software and hardware modernization. View this infographic for 4 steps to a modernized and optimized IT Infrastructure. Read More ▶ How to make hybrid cloud work The enterprise view of hybrid cloud is becoming clearer and more sophisticated than simply using cloud alongside existing on-premises IT. Here's what companies are doing now with hybrid cloud. ▶ Why Microsoft's Edge browser is missing its edge More than a year after its introduction, Edge remains underwhelming and a very much a work in progress. Our reviewer explains where it falls short. ▶

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