In the IT world, specifically in networking, there aren’t many aspects that are as much of an enigma as subnetting—the act of creating subnetworks. Subnets are logical divisions of an existing network that are...
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be all the rage, but it’s still slow to be deployed. The learning curve is steep, there are few people with adequate AI experience, and the rules of governance are...
Whether in an existing network or a new one, there is an aspect of design that cannot be skipped: deciding if handing out IP addresses will be dynamic (automatic) or manual (one-by-one) or—the most...
In reviewing CPU and server benchmarks, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that testing covers both single-core and multi-core performance. Here’s the difference. In terms of raw performance, both are equally important, but single- and multi-core have...
Virtualization is an essential part of modern IT infrastructure that presents many routine management tasks to sysadmins, among them increasing virtual hard-drive space when necessary. In my line of work, because of expanding log...
Lenovo Group is marking its 30th anniversary with its largest data-center product launch ever, with more than 50 new products covering servers, storage, and edge systems. Specifically, the celebration is for the ThinkSystem server,...
At the transportation organization where I work, we employ two Cradlepoint mobile-router models in our vehicles: the industrial IBR-1700 vehicular routers in our 97 buses and eight smaller IBR-900 vehicular routers in maintenance trucks,...
SambaNova Systems is now shipping the second-generation of its DataScale systems specifically built for AI and machine learning. You may not have heard of SambaNova, a startup led by ex-Oracle/Sun hardware executives and Stanford...
As an IT pro, it’s not often that I get to tail a suspect, track down a stolen vehicle and provide digital evidence of the thief’s getaway. But that was all part of a...
Back in August, TrendForce Research predicted that due to an oversupply in NAND flash memory, the price of SSDs could drop by 5% to 10% in the third quarter. Since then, the economy has...
