IT budgets shift away from capital expenses thanks to the cloud

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Network World Data Center Alert Jun 20, 2017 IT budgets shift away from capital expenses thanks to the cloud IT organizations are spending money on things other than hardware, according to Computer Economics' annual IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks study for 2017/2018. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • White boxes crushing the traditional server market • Hyperscale data centers are pushing the limits in the Gigabit Ethernet switching market • Yahoo selling its 'chicken coop' data center design • British Airways' outage, like most data center outages, was caused by humans • HPE, Hedvig announce hybrid cloud storage partnership • WhatsApp leaves IBM's SoftLayer cloud for Facebook data center: What it really means • Cloud-native architectures will be the default soon • Video storage leads to hyperconvergence for law enforcement agency • Mid-range supercomputers surge on the Top500 list of fastest machines Solution Center: Rapid7 Do You Have the Power to Make Nothing Happen? 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Read More ▶ Yahoo selling its 'chicken coop' data center design Yahoo has several patents for sale, including the design for its energy-efficient Yahoo Computing Coop data center. Making it open source would be ideal, so all companies can use it. Read More ▶ British Airways' outage, like most data center outages, was caused by humans British Airways' data center outage, like most technology failures, was because the person behind it caused the problem. Read More ▶ HPE, Hedvig announce hybrid cloud storage partnership Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has partnered with a software-defined storage startup Hedvig to create a hybrid cloud storage platform customized for HPE servers. Read More ▶ WhatsApp leaves IBM's SoftLayer cloud for Facebook data center: What it really means Facebook's decision to move WhatsApp off IBM's SoftLayer cloud to its own data center shows it still makes sense to run some giant workloads on-premise. Read More ▶ Cloud-native architectures will be the default soon The number of cloud-native enterprise applications is expected to jump to 32 percent by 2020, but CIOs will face resistance along the way. Read More ▶ Video storage leads to hyperconvergence for law enforcement agency The Bergen County Sheriff's Office first chose Pivot3's converged server and SAN solutions to handle video workloads. Today, Pivot3's HCI appliance clusters allow BCSO to combine VDI, long-term storage, and video storage arrays within a single hyperconverged platform. Read More ▶ Mid-range supercomputers surge on the Top500 list of fastest machines With no change at the top of the latest Top500.org supercomputer list, you need to look further down the rankings to see the real story. Read More ▶ Video/Webcast: CDW | EMC Digital Transformation Calls for New Data Center Solutions We're in the midst of the third industrial revolution -- the era of digital business. 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