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Data Center World Newsletter

Get the knowledge you need year-round to excel in building, operating, and maintaining data center systems, ensuring security, optimizing processing capabilities, and managing infrastructure effectively. Subscribe today! Stay ahead of the curve with the most up-to-date insights and analysis on the data center business and technology. Drawing upon the expertise of AFCOM, the leading association for data center and IT professionals, we provide a wealth of knowledge focusing on practical solutions for today's key challenges. Our content covers a wide range of topics, including the alignment of IT goals with business objectives, improving IT operations, design/build processes, and facilities management.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Managed Devices AI-Driven Support for Device Lifecycle Management

NWN's AI-powered Managed Device Services streamline endpoint lifecycle management for hybrid workforces. Combining proactive security, automated support, and predictive analytics, it reduces IT complexity while enhancing productivity and user experience. Explore how these solutions optimize operations in this overview. Managing devices across hybrid workforces challenges IT leaders to balance security, compliance, efficiency, and user experience within budgets. NWN's Managed Devices offering, powered by its Experience Management Platform, streamlines device operations while boosting security and productivity. This solution combines innovative technologies with 24/7 managed services. Key features include: · Endpoint security with Zero Trust frameworks and self-healing · AI-driven analytics and Digital Employee Experience monitoring · Flexible procurement via Device-as-a-Service and subscription models Discover how NWN can transform your device management strategy.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Enhancing The Digital Employee Experience with NWN's AiVA, an AI-powered Virtual Assistant

Many IT environments remain siloed, reducing productivity and increasing support costs. NWN's AiVA, an AI-powered assistant, delivers context-aware support across devices and apps with real-time monitoring and proactive issue resolution. Explore how integrated AI can transform digital employee experiences. Modern workforces need instant support and information, yet most IT environments remain siloed and reactive, causing friction, reduced productivity, higher costs, and employee frustration. AiVA, an AI-powered virtual assistant, delivers context-aware support across devices, applications, and networks. Integrated with NWN's Experience Management Platform, it tackles Digital Employee Experience challenges: · Real-time monitoring to resolve issues proactively · Self-service tools for employees to fix common problems · Unified security and compliance across enterprise systems

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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AiVA: The Virtual Assistant Transforming IT Support & Employee Experience

AiVA, an AI-powered virtual assistant, transforms IT support with advanced intent understanding and sentiment recognition. Offering automation, multi-channel access, and system integration, it can achieve a 50% deflection rate and faster resolutions. Explore how AiVA enhances employee experience and IT efficiency. Modern IT support faces challenges, with 70% of interactions fit for automation and 40% of onsite issues solvable without human help. Yet, organizations face high costs, poor employee satisfaction, and scaling difficulties. AiVA, an AI-powered virtual assistant, transforms IT support with GenAI intent understanding and sentiment recognition. Delivered via NWN's Experience Management Platform, it offers a personalized, always-on solution beyond chatbots. Features include: · 50% deflection rates, 80% faster resolution for automated cases · Integration across web, chat, email, and mobile · Support for troubleshooting, password resets, and software installs

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Customer Experience Orchestrate Powerful Customer Journeys Leveraging AI for Precise Intelligence

NWN's Customer Experience solutions unify contact centers, digital channels, and AI automation to deliver personalized service across voice, chat, email, SMS, and social media. With real-time analytics, workforce optimization, and security, the platform boosts agent efficiency and customer satisfaction. Explore how CX can transform engagement. As customer expectations evolve, organizations face challenges with fragmented tools, inconsistent engagement, and limited visibility—hindering seamless, personalized service at scale. NWN's Managed CX Services solve these issues by unifying contact centers, digital channels, and workforce engagement. Powered by AI and the Experience Management Platform, these solutions deliver consistent experiences across voice, chat, email, SMS, and social media while ensuring security: · AI-driven virtual agents and live staff support · Tools for optimizing staffing and forecasting · Multichannel engagement for continuity

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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The Power of Digital Employee Experience (DEX)

Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Management shifts IT support to focus on employee-tech interactions. Using centralized device management, proactive monitoring, AI analytics, and self-healing, it reduces downtime, enhances security, and boosts productivity. Learn how DEX optimizes workforce technology. Today's hybrid workforce faces challenges like fragmented device management, security risks, compliance issues, and employee frustration, leading to lower productivity, higher support costs, and data exposure. NWN's Digital Employee Experience Management offers a solution by integrating people, processes, and technology to optimize interactions. This approach prevents disruptions and ensures seamless experiences. · Centralized device management with robust security and compliance · AI-driven monitoring and self-healing to preempt issues · Lifecycle management and sentiment analysis to enhance satisfaction Explore how this strategy can transform your employee experience.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Elevating VDI Performance: Primary Residential Mortgage Achieves Performance Resurgence and a 90% Reduction in Drive Failures with DymaxIO

How a top U.S. mortgage lender restored VDI performance, eliminated excessive I/O, and reduced drive failures by 90% using intelligent Windows I/O optimization. Primary Residential Mortgage, Inc. (PRMI) implemented VDI to improve data security and user access—but soon encountered performance bottlenecks despite a well-provisioned VMware environment. Excessive I/O traffic strained shared storage, degraded application responsiveness, and led to frequent drive failures. Having already used DymaxIO® successfully on servers, PRMI extended the software to 400 VDI clients across 22 hosts. DymaxIO optimized I/O directly inside the Windows OS, preventing split I/Os and dramatically reducing unnecessary read and write operations sent to storage. Within 30 days, DymaxIO eliminated over 1 billion I/Os from reaching backend storage. Performance stabilized, user productivity improved, and infrastructure strain dropped sharply. One unexpected benefit was a 90% reduction in drive failures—falling from multiple replacements per month to just four over two years. By reducing reliance on storage and shifting more workload to memory, DymaxIO created a ripple effect across the shared VDI environment. This case study demonstrates how intelligent I/O optimization can restore performance, protect storage investments, and significantly improve operational reliability in large-scale virtual desktop deployments.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Finance Company Deploys DymaxIO I/O Transformation Software for Blazing Fast VDI

A government finance agency delivers a pristine VDI experience by eliminating 40% of unnecessary storage I/O--without adding flash or IOPS. When the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (MFA) transitioned from physical PCs to VMware Horizon View VDI, performance consistency became a top concern. Even with flash-based storage capable of high IOPS, MFA recognized that Windows-generated I/O inefficiencies could undermine user experience and waste valuable storage resources. To address this risk, MFA deployed DymaxIO® across its VDI environment. DymaxIO eliminates fragmented writes, consolidates I/O into larger sequential operations, and serves hot reads directly from unused system memory. This approach significantly reduces the load on backend storage while improving responsiveness. The results exceeded expectations. DymaxIO eliminated approximately 40% of storage I/O in the VDI environment, delivering fast, consistent user experiences. Encouraged by the outcome, MFA expanded DymaxIO across additional Windows workloads, including SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint—achieving similar efficiency gains. With near-zero CPU overhead and no reboot required for installation or upgrades, DymaxIO provided enterprise-grade optimization without operational disruption. This case study illustrates how organizations can ensure high-performance VDI deployments by addressing I/O inefficiencies at the Windows OS level rather than over-provisioning storage.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Investment Firm Doubles Oracle Performance and Eliminates User Complaints with DymaxIO

How a lean investment firm doubled Oracle processing speed, eliminated Bloomberg Anywhere user complaints, and avoided costly VMware and RAM upgrades--using software-based I/O optimization instead of new hardware. When a global investment firm shifted to remote work, performance problems quickly surfaced across mission-critical systems. Oracle data warehouse jobs slowed dramatically, and users experienced frequent login failures when accessing Bloomberg Anywhere through Horizon VMs. Despite modern VMware ESXi infrastructure and fast storage, the firm faced growing pressure to add RAM and expand hosts—an expensive and disruptive path for a two-person IT team. Rather than pursuing hardware upgrades, the firm deployed DymaxIO® across all Windows virtual machines running on its ESXi hosts. DymaxIO optimizes I/O at the Windows OS level, eliminating inefficient small, fragmented I/O and dynamically caching reads in unused memory. This “set-it-and-forget-it” approach immediately reduced unnecessary storage traffic and improved system throughput. The results were both immediate and measurable. Oracle warehouse jobs ran twice as fast, dropping from four minutes to two. User complaints tied to Bloomberg Anywhere and Exchange performance disappeared—without increasing VM memory allocations or adding new infrastructure. Over a 30-day period, DymaxIO eliminated more than 800 million storage I/Os, saving an estimated 22 days of storage processing time. By offloading over half of read operations and nearly half of write operations from storage, the firm preserved performance headroom, extended hardware life, and avoided additional VMware licensing, SAN expansion, and power costs. For a small IT team, DymaxIO delivered enterprise-class performance gains with minimal operational overhead. This case study shows how optimizing Windows I/O—rather than replacing hardware—can unlock hidden performance, stabilize virtual environments, and deliver immediate ROI in database-driven, remote-access workloads.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Marcus Food Co. Boosts Windows Performance & Efficiency While Extending Hardware Lifecycle by Deploying DymaxIO

A food distribution company extends SSD life to near-record levels, eliminates performance complaints, and saves hundreds of thousands of dollars by reducing unnecessary I/O at the source. Marcus Food Co. operates demanding production systems that rely on fast, consistent performance while processing large volumes of transactional data. Like many organizations, they invested in SSD-backed infrastructure to meet performance demands—only to discover that Windows-generated I/O inefficiencies were placing unnecessary strain on storage and shortening hardware lifespan. By deploying DymaxIO®, Marcus Food Co. transformed how I/O was generated and handled across their Windows environment. DymaxIO prevents inefficient split I/Os and serves hot reads directly from unused system memory, dramatically reducing the amount of traffic sent to storage devices. The impact was substantial. After more than three years of heavy production use, Marcus Food Co.’s SSDs still retained 98% of their usable life—an outcome that allowed the company to project hardware lifespans of up to 10 years. At the same time, application responsiveness improved, network traffic declined, and performance-related user complaints were eliminated. Beyond performance gains, the company realized significant cost savings by avoiding premature drive replacements and delaying major infrastructure refresh cycles. IT staff gained confidence knowing systems were running faster, more reliably, and with far less wear on storage hardware. This case study highlights how intelligent I/O optimization can dramatically extend SSD longevity, reduce operational costs, and deliver consistent performance—without replacing existing infrastructure.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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IT Excellence in Education: Middletown Township Public School District Saves Costs and Boosts Performance with DymaxIO

How a public school district extended server life beyond a decade, reduced disk failures, and improved Nutanix performance--despite limited staff and tight budgets. Middletown Township Public School District supports over 9,000 students and 1,600 staff with a small IT team and limited resources. With aging hardware and increasing system demands, the district needed a way to maximize performance and reliability without continuous hardware replacement. After more than a decade of success using Condusiv I/O optimization software, the district continued its strategy by deploying DymaxIO® across both legacy Dell servers and a newly implemented Nutanix environment. DymaxIO optimizes Windows I/O at the source, reducing unnecessary storage traffic and improving throughput across servers, networks, and storage systems. The results were striking. Legacy servers exceeded ten years of service with virtually no disk failures, while DymaxIO’s deployment in the Nutanix environment eliminated over 1.4 billion storage I/Os in just 60 days—saving more than 45 days of cumulative I/O processing time. Application performance improved, help desk tickets declined, and system stability increased across heavily used educational platforms. For an understaffed IT department, DymaxIO’s “set-it-and-forget-it” design minimized daily maintenance while delivering measurable performance and cost benefits. This case study demonstrates how education organizations can extend infrastructure lifespan, improve reliability, and protect budgets through intelligent software-based optimization.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Digital Engineering: 2026 Technology Outlook

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Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Ultimate Web Designer & Developer Course

We're excited to announce the Ultimate Web Designer & Developer Course is now available for download! Dive into comprehensive training on: This all-in-one course is perfect for anyone looking to master web design and development with 23 hands-on projects. Elevate your skills and transform your career!

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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AI Cheatsheet: AI Software Developer Agents

Looking to supercharge your AI development journey? Look no further! 📚 Introducing our latest resource: "AI Cheatsheet: AI Software Developer Agents" 📚 🔧 22 powerful tools to accelerate AI application development 🌐 8 vibrant AI/ML communities to connect, collaborate, and grow with Whether you're a seasoned AI expert or just starting on your AI journey, this cheatsheet is your ultimate companion. Download now and unlock the secrets to efficient AI development!

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Top 3 Considerations for Simplifying Code to Cloud Security

Fortinet empowers organizations to achieve their digital acceleration goals by delivering a consistent, secured, and optimized code-to-cloud experience where you can build, deploy, and run cloud applications across all data centers, clouds, and hybrid and edge-compute. We do this by offering cloud security solutions that are natively integrated across major cloud platforms and technologies, deployable directly from cloud marketplaces, as physical and virtual appliances, as SaaS-based and as cloud-native options, and provide the ability to extend the Fortinet Security Fabric across anywhere applications live. Fortinet Cloud Security Solutions enable centralized management across all hybrid and multi-clouds giving consistent policy administration, deep visibility into applications and workloads, and uniform delivery of FortiGuard threat protection.

Apr 15, 2026 8 min read Premium