TechTarget, Thursday, April 30th, 2026
SNMP vs. CMIP: What's the Difference?
SNMP and CMIP are network management protocols with different design philosophies: SNMP prioritizes simplicity while CMIP emphasizes flexibility.
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HPCwire, Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
Re-Architecting Archive at Scale: Object-Based Tape and the Limits of Cloud Storage
Organizations must balance object-based tape and cloud storage for sustainable long-term data archival at zettabyte scale.
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AIwire, Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
Open Compute Project: Delivering an Open Data Center Ecosystem for AI
OCP announces new contributions and alliances to build open, standardized AI data center infrastructure.
more → ZDNET, Monday, April 27th, 2026
77% of IT Managers Say Their AI Agents Are Out of Control - 5 Ways to Rein in Yours
Most IT managers lack control over AI agents, requiring robust governance strategies.
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DataCenter Knowledge, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
Data Center World 2026: Power Architecture Pushed Beyond The Rack
AI workloads are forcing data centers to adopt 800 VDC architectures to reclaim rack space from power infrastructure.
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The New Stack, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
Why Only 37% Of Developers Trust AI For Incident Response
Only 37% of developers trust AI tools for incident response, raising concerns about reliability.
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HPCwire, Monday, April 20th, 2026
The Modern Data Stack Was Never Built To Make Decisions
I was in a meeting recently with a VP of Data at a mid-size enterprise when she said something that stopped me. We were talking about her team's quarterly roadmap, and she paused and said, almost to herself: 'We have faster pipelines than we've ever had, and somehow decisions still take a week.'
more → CIO, Friday, April 17th, 2026
The 10 skills every modern integration architect must master
Forget just connecting apps; today's integration architects need to be part coder, part business strategist and part security pro to keep modern systems hummin'.
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The Reguster, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
AI-Powered Mainframe Exits Are A Bubble Set To Pop
Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away
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Analytics Insight, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
Top Docker Innovations And Best Practices For 2026 Production Success
Docker is evolving beyond simple containers into smarter systems that manage scale, security, and performance on their own. It pushes teams to rethink how they build, deploy, and maintain reliable applications in modern production environments.
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CIO, Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
The next-generation observability architecture: Lessons from a decade of event-scale system
Dashboards are great for steady states, but they buckle during real crises. We need a data layer that handles messy, exploratory queries without crashing or breaking the bank.
more → Security Boulevard, Monday, April 13th, 2026
What is WUE? A Guide to Data Center Water Efficiency
Data centers process massive amounts of information every single second. All that relentless computing generates an incredible amount of heat. To keep delicate servers from melting down, facility managers rely on heavy-duty commercial cooling systems. Historically, these cooling systems have consumed millions of gallons of fresh water every year.
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LevelAct, Monday, April 13th, 2026
AI Infrastructure Crisis Is Exploding: Demand Is Outpacing Reality
The AI infrastructure crisis is no longer a future concern-it's happening right now. As enterprises rush to deploy generative AI, large language models, and machine learning systems at scale, the underlying infrastructure needed to support these technologies is reaching its limits.
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AiThority, Friday, April 10th, 2026
AI Infrastructure: The Hidden Layer Driving Innovation
AI is one of the most important new technologies of our time. It is changing how businesses work and changing whole industries. A lot of the focus is on advanced models and applications that users can see, but there is a deeper layer that makes these new ideas possible and lets them grow. This section talks about that basic layer and why it should get the same amount of attention.
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Search Enterprise AI, Thursday, April 9th, 2026
The Business Case For A Multi-Cloud AI Strategy
Using a single cloud provider for AI infrastructure can have its limitations. Discover the benefits businesses can realize by opting for a multi-cloud AI strategy.
more → Data Center Knowledge, Monday, April 6th, 2026
What AI Data Centers Can Learn From High-Frequency Trading
Some AI workloads now demand microsecond-scale responsiveness, deterministic networking, and high-throughput processing - requirements honed over decades in HFT.
more → ITPro, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
'Skipping A Beat On Resilience Investment Isn'T An Option Any More' As IT Outage Costs Soar
Organizations are ramping up resilience efforts at IT outage costs continue mounting
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The New Stack, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Moving Beyond The 'Magic Scaling Sauce' Myth
Learn how to scale data-intensive applications effectively with this exclusive excerpt from Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
Data Center Boom Sparks Labor Shortage In Skilled Trades
While the AI boom is widely understood as a contest for elite engineers and pricey GPUs, behind the headlines a related struggle is unfolding in the skilled trades. As tech companies pour vast sums into building data centers, a shortage of electricians, technicians and machine specialists is emerging as a critical constraint on growth.
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ITPro, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
The Majority Of Businesses Couldn't Survive Three Days Of Downtime
IT outages have a disastrous impact on enterprise productivity and finances
more → DCD, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Beyond PUE: Rethinking How Data Center Sustainability Is Measured
Three essential metrics to help data center managers measure sustainability success via a more complete and comparative framework
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Search Enterprise Desktop, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Building A Virtual Desktop Security Strategy For The Enterprise
Virtual desktop security requires strong governance, IAM, monitoring and endpoint controls. CIOs must address risks across VDI and DaaS to protect data and ensure compliance.
more → IoTNOW, Friday, March 27th, 2026
Why DCIM (Data Centre Infrastructure Management) Still Fails When Data Centres Need It Most
Data Centre Infrastructure Management, or DCIM, implies a lot. A unified command layer: one system that ties together power, cooling, and compute, understands how they interact, and gives operators a coherent picture before things go wrong. Walk into most enterprise data centres and what you find is something else entirely.
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Sustainability and ESG, Thursday, March 26th, 2026
How To Handle Energy Cost Management For IT Leaders
Structural demand from AI and data centers makes efficient energy use critical. As energy costs rise, CIOs must prioritize energy cost management in IT budgets.
more → Security Boulevard, Thursday, March 26th, 2026
What is PUE? A Guide to Data Center Efficiency
Data centers are the engines of the modern internet. They process our emails, host our applications, and store our most valuable data. However, keeping those servers running and cooled requires a massive amount of electricity.
more → Security Boulevard, Thursday, March 26th, 2026
What is DCiE? A Guide to Data Center Efficiency
Data centers power our modern digital infrastructure, but that power comes at a steep price. Massive facilities consume vast amounts of electricity to keep servers running, data flowing, and racks cool. As energy costs rise and environmental concerns grow, tracking how efficiently a facility uses power is no longer optional.
more → Search Security, Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
10 Enterprise Secure Remote Access Best Practices
Remote access is a critical necessity in today's work-from-anywhere environment. It's also incredibly risky. But there are ways to protect assets and combat potential attacks.
more → Security Boulevard, Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
Tools To Measure Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency: The Complete Guide
From PUE calculators to enterprise DCIM platforms - a structured overview of every category of tool available for quantifying, monitoring, and improving the efficiency of your data center infrastructure.
more → Professional Security, Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
GDPR Compliance When Disposing Of Old Company Tech
Teams prioritise performance gains, enhanced security and operational continuity. Yet while attention shifts to the future, less thought is given to what happens to the devices being retired, even though older hardware may still contain recoverable information.
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DataCenter Knowledge, Friday, March 20th, 2026
A Buyer's Guide To Data Center Colocation Space
Learn how to choose the right colocation provider, optimize your space, and manage colocated servers.
more → Help Net Security, Thursday, March 19th, 2026
Keysight Software Bill Of Materials (SBOMs) Manager Simplifies Global Cybersecurity Compliance And Software Transparency
Keysight Technologies has launched Keysight SBOM Manager, a new solution designed to help organizations meet growing global cybersecurity and software transparency requirements, led by the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
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CIO, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
The Post-Cloud Data Center: Back In Fashion, But Not Like Before
For most of the last decade, I watched enterprise infrastructure strategy follow a simple arc: abstract complexity, speed up provisioning, move as much as possible into the cloud. That shift delivered real value.
more → Forrester, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Why IT Service Management Platform Migrations Fail - And What IT Leaders Must Do Before Switching Platforms
Organizations rarely abandon a service management platform on a whim. The decision usually follows years of compounding friction, rising costs, a lack of a strategic relationship with the vendor, or a growing realization that a once‑trusted tool simply cannot keep pace with the business anymore.
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CIO, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
AI Is Redefining What Enterprises Expect From Data Centers
Forget just keeping the lights on; today's data centers need to handle massive AI power spikes while proving they can actually control what those AI agents do.
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Friday, March 13th, 2026
Preparing Enterprise Data Centers For AI Adoption
Enterprises adopting artificial intelligence face challenges distinct from those of hyperscale users in data center capacity and capability planning.
more → Architecture and Governance, Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
Practical IT Architecture: A Survival Guide For Architects In The Modern IT Landscape
Over the years I have bought many books on architecture and, as you invariably find, they tend to fall into one of two camps. Either they are heavy on technology, or they are weighted towards frameworks.
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DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
How Grid-Safe Data Centers Can Help Ease The Power Crisis
Given the growing talk of cloud repatriation, we asked two CIOs: What workload would you not move to the cloud again if you were starting over today?
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CIO, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
AI Data Centers Are Becoming Fortresses - And That's The Point
AI data centers aren't just getting faster - they're getting attacked, which means modernization now depends as much on security as on compute power.
more → Security Boulevard, Thursday, March 5th, 2026
Operational Technology (OT) Penetration Testing: Defining, Process And Tools
Operational penetration testing is a process of simulating real-world attacks on OT systems to identify vulnerabilities before cybercriminals can exploit them, either physically or remotely.
more → The New Stack, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Why Traditional ITOps Is Failing To Keep Up With The Unique Nature Of AI Incidents
Traditional ITOps is failing. Learn how to adapt your incident management strategy for the unique risks and shifts of the AI era.
more → Security Boulevard, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
6 Minutes And A Prayer: The Math Your SOC Doesn't Want You To See
Your analysts are gambling with alerts, and the math proves it.
more → InformationWeek, Monday, March 2nd, 2026
Kill Your ITIL: Why CIOs Are Abandoning Traditional Service Management
As business demands accelerate, rigid IT frameworks increasingly hold organizations back. Here's what's replacing traditional service delivery models and why.
more → Search Storage, Friday, February 27th, 2026
Manage Storage With Log Forwarding Via rsyslog
Follow this comprehensive step-by-step guide to effectively plan and implement an automated log centralization process using rsyslog's flexible features.
more → Security Boulevard, Friday, February 20th, 2026
Must-Have Investments For Security-Aware & Productive Teams
No matter its size, any business that strives for success faces challenges from two sides. On the one hand, productivity optimization remains a prerequisite for growth. On the other, the scale and complexity of cyber threats are only increasing.
more → Security Boulevard, Friday, February 20th, 2026
ASP.NET to .NET Core Migration: What CIOs and CTOs Need to Know
Many enterprise applications still run on ASP.NET (.NET Framework). They are stable. They are functional. They generate revenue. But they are also increasingly expensive, difficult to scale, and misaligned with modern cloud-native architecture.
more → The New Stack, Thursday, February 19th, 2026
The Essential Shift Every ITOps Leader Must Make To Survive An Unrelenting Stream Of Incidents
Learn how ITOps leaders use AI and automation to survive modern incident streams, reduce downtime costs, prevent burnout, and modernize incident management.
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
The Myth of 'Always On': Confronting Data Center SPOFs
True resilience depends as much on disciplined operations - training, staffing, procedures, and realistic scenario planning - as on engineering.
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Friday, February 13th, 2026
Beyond The Chiller: Rethinking Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) Through System-Level Energy Recovery
Power usage effectiveness needs to be approached through the lens of innovations in cooling and energy efficiency, writes Stephen Richards.
more → The Next Platform, Monday, February 9th, 2026
Datacenter Spending Forecast Revised Upwards - Yet Again
This is turning into a 'dog bites man' story, but the forecasts for spending in the datacenter for this year keep going up and up, and a few days ago Gartner's economists and prognosticators finished up their tea and looked at the leaves at the bottom of a cup through a polished crystal ball and predicted that datacenter spending this year would go up.
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DataCenter Knowledge, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Passing The Torch: Building A Workforce For The Next Generation Of Data Centers
The industry must prioritize succession planning, invest in education and apprenticeships, and reframe its public image to attract new talent.
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