VMware and AWS have teamed up to provide an integrated hybrid offering that promises to give customers the full software-defined data center (SDDC) experience. VMware Cloud on AWS will enable customers to run applications across VMware vSphere-based private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. To be available in mid-2017, the service will be delivered, sold, and […]

It’s not easy being green. In an effort to leave as light of a footprint as they can, hardware makers are exploring ways to to make data centers more energy efficient. For example, Intel’s Atom processor family, which is designed to power microservers and a new class of energy efficient storage and communications equipment is […]

Let’s turn our attention to the future and discuss what is in store for the data center market in 2016. 1. 2016 – The year of modular There has been a great deal of talk about modular data centers, yet relatively low adoption. That will change in 2016 with a substantially higher rate of adoption […]