With VMworld 2010 this week, and in particular VMware’s own strategic cloud infrastructure announcements, start-ups and longtime IT fixtures alike are clamoring to get the word out that they’ve got ...

Power grids are evolving to accommodate a 40% increase in demand and higher renewable energy integration by adopting advanced automation strategies. Centralized protection architectures consolidate ...

Why engineers are making software defined automation, digital twins, soft PLCs and other agnostic tools part of the manufacturing automation toolkit. Change is happening at record speed. More ...

‘Red Hat is the only platform that makes hybrid a genuine first-class architecture, not an afterthought,’ says Red Hat Chief Product Officer and Senior Vice President Ashesh Badani. The upcoming Red ...

The increased dependence on interconnected networks propelled the Defense Department to seek viable solutions to not just counter the upsurge of cyberthreats, but to do so at much quicker speeds. “The ...

ANAHEIM, CALIF. — Cisco this week unveiled its next-generation data center strategy along with a range of products to support that vision. Called Data Center 3.0, the plan is intended to enable ...

Virtual PLCs can automatically recover from hardware failures by restarting on another server, thereby eliminating the downtime and guesswork of physical PLC replacement. Running control logic in ...

Learn about virtual control and the key indicators that signal whether your manufacturing facility is truly prepared for control system virtualization.

Physical servers are so last year ...

Enthusiasts are increasingly using virtual machines not just for experiments, but as full-time computing environments. From ...