Network World Data Center Alert

February 19, 2019

The long, slow death of commercial Unix

Unix was the standard for mission-critical computing. Now itâs clinging for life. How will it end? Read more â¶

Your Must-Read Stories

â¢	SD-WAN can help solve challenges of multi-cloud

â¢	Light-based computers to be 5,000 times faster

â¢	That VPN may not be as secure as you think

â¢	Lenovo jumps into the pay-per-use server market

â¢	10 hot quantum-computing startups to watch

Accelerate Database Efficiency with SQL Performance Investigator (PI)

Solve performance issues faster with deep SQL workload visibility and lock analytics. Read more â¶

SD-WAN can help solve challenges of multi-cloud

Cooperation between SD-WAN vendors and cloud service providers contributes to easily managed cloud connections across multiple cloud providers and creates a secure, low-latency multi-cloud environment. Read more â¶

FROM OUR BUSINESS PARTNERS

Get TotalAV Essential AntiVirus for $19.99 (80% off)

TotalAV works in harmony with all existing softwares already installed on your device, providing an unrivaled one-two punch of protection and performance maintenance for PC and Mac users alike. Read more â¶

Light-based computers to be 5,000 times faster

New light absorption techniques in semiconductors get clock rates 5,000 times quicker than current PCs. Itâs one more step towards an all-light computing environment. Read more â¶

That VPN may not be as secure as you think

Researchers found some subscription VPN services have programming errors that cause leaks, monitor user traffic, and lack privacy policies â all reasons to set up your own VPN server. Read more â¶

Lenovo jumps into the pay-per-use server market

Lenovo is launching TruScale, a pay-per-use system for its servers that it says offers true pay-per-use and no requirement of a minimum capacity purchase. Read more â¶

10 hot quantum-computing startups to watch

Well-funded young companies drawing on academics and industry veterans for leadership are tackling hardware, software, algorithms, security, analytics and more that are needed for quantum computing to become a reality in enterprises. Read more â¶

DBAs Face New Challenges: Trend in Database Administration

This shifting environment has led to an expansion of the DBA role in some settings. DBAs are looked to for advice and guidance in developing the overall data management infrastructure, including when to move data to the cloud. Moreover, with the growth of the DevOps approach to application development, many DBAs are more deeply involved with application and database development. Read more â¶