Tools that increase IT efficiency pave the way for digital transformations

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Network World Data Center Alert Jun 27, 2017 Tools that increase IT efficiency pave the way for digital transformations Inflexible IT architectures can be a barrier to organizational change. As companies embark on digital transformations aimed at improving their business, the pressure is on IT to reduce complexity and increase the efficiency of enterprise systems and applications. 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When you can make nothing happen, your enterprise can make growth happen. Read More ▶ Apcela advises how to build a hybrid IT platform for better performance and stronger security WAN architectures today are not optimized to handle hybrid applications. Mark Casey, president and CEO of Apcela, advises on how to build a new cloud-ready architecture to improve the security and performance of hybrid applications. Read More ▶ Trend: Colocation facilities provide tools to manage data center infrastructure Colocation providers can supply DCIM tools that give their customers a "single pane of glass" to view the status of their IT infrastructure. Read More ▶ Data center startup offers compute colo at cell towers Vapor IO is launching a rather interesting collocation business by offering leased data center capacity at cellular network towers. The company's argument is that it should offer compute and network capabilities together for maximum edge computing. Read More ▶ Viewing Linux output in columns The column command can reformat the output from various commands to make it more useful or appealing Read More ▶ Cavium makes its ARM for data centers push with new servers Cavium, a company steeped in MIPS-based embedded processors, is bringing its considerable experience and IP to the ARM processor with its ThunderX server ecosystem. ThunderX is the whole shootin' match, an ARMv8-A 64-bit SoC plus motherboards, both single and dual socket. In addition to hardware, Cavium offers operating systems, development environments, tools, and applications. Read More ▶ Reducing data among proposed techniques to speed-up computers Existing computers are too slow for future problem-solving requirements, so new solutions must be found, say researchers. 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