Condusiv Technologies announced new editions for three of its I/O reduction software products today, featuring “no reboot” capability and enhanced performance reporting. V-locity 7.0 for virtual servers aims to handle application performance challenges on I/O-intensive systems like MS-SQL. Diskeeper 18 Server and Professional works to reduce I/O on HDD-based servers and PCs, and SSDkeeper 2.0 … continue reading
Container monitoring solution provider Sysdig announced expanded support for the open-source Prometheus monitoring system in their flagship Sysdig Monitor software. Announced late last month, Sysdig will be introducing support subscriptions for users’ self-hosted Prometheus environments, giving users direct assistance with managing the performance measuring and monitoring platform. “Overall, our philosophy is to be open by … continue reading
Today, the world is moving too fast. Companies are being pressured to act like software companies now. Technology is evolving at a tremendous rate: from cloud elasticity, to container innovation, to serverless computing and cloud functions. However, the high rate of change across technologies, tooling and practices makes it impossible to confidently know where to … continue reading
Application performance monitoring solution provider Instana announced the release of a Grafana premium datasource plugin for their platform today. The Grafana Premium Datasource Plugin for Instana is designed to bring the open-source dashboarding and reporting software to Instana’s containerized microservice-focused APM. The base Instana software automates the management of business-critical applications in containerized environments, automatically … continue reading
Data infrastructure automation solution provider WhereScape has announced new automated streaming capabilities. WhereScape automation with Streaming is designed to provide IT teams with real-time data flows and processing insight into their existing data infrastructure. Streaming supports the Internet of Things, sensor data, log files, retail purchases, social media content and other continuously generated data. In … continue reading
Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, today completed its purchase of Geist, a privately owned manufacturer of Rack Power Distribution Units (PDUs) and associated data center power products. This is the second significant acquisition of 2018 for Vertiv, which announced the purchase of Energy Labs Jan. 16. The acquisition of Geist solidifies Vertiv as a market … continue reading
Safe to say, mobile technology and explosive BYOD trends over the last decade have upended the traditional workplace environment and with it, traditional security protocols. Gone are the days in which employees’ data remains squarely on their workstations between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. These days, organizations offer some kind of remote working policy. … continue reading
Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider since 1986, today announced five information technology trends expected to impact data protection infrastructure and business outcomes in 2018. Like other technology segments, data protection has not been sheltered from the evolution of technology which is evolving as cloud computing, new regulatory requirements and a rise … continue reading
Machine learning has been a buzzword in recent years, but surprisingly some of the most tech-savvy individuals — IT professionals — have been slow to maximize the technology. A recent survey of IT pros shows that this group cannot wait much longer to commit to machine learning analytics. As organizations’ infrastructures have become more complex … continue reading