This IDC white paper looks at the transition that today's datacenters have to move through to adapt to and leverage the changing technologies that will be the underpinnings of tomorrow's compute paradigm. This transition includes the standardization of infrastructure software, the commoditization and standardization of hardware layers, and the changing programming model that customers will utilize for next-generation applications. This IDC white paper looks at Linux as an enabler to help organizations respond …

Accurate network diagrams are the Holy Grail in enterprise network management -- most network teams know they should be documenting their networks but haven't found a universally good way of doing it. Today's manual diagramming methods are prohibitively time-consuming and 'static diagram generating software' has not lived up to expectations in easing the burden. With enterprise networks evolving rapidly, existing 'static' diagramming solutions can't keep up with the constant changes. A more dynamic mapping …