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Building IT Resiliency with Data Protection & Disaster Recovery
October 26th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
DARRELL RIDDLE
FalconStor

Continuous data protection technologies allow companies to take snapshots of data within the data center, backup this data more often and replicate it to an offsite data center, reducing data loss to almost zero. writes Darrell Riddle of FalconStor. Read More
Disaster Recovery: Boost Confidence in Your Plans
October 25th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
PETER EICHER
Syncsort

One of the biggest IT challenges this year for organizations of all sizes is data protection and disaster recovery, writes Peter Eicher of Syncsort. Proper planning is critical to business continuity. Read More
Second Key to Brokering IT Services Internally: Figure Out What it Costs
October 24th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives

You must develop a cost model so you can determine the cost per deployable unit of your compute and storage resources. You don’t have to have a charge-back, but you do need to be able to show costs and report on costed usage, writes Dick Benton of Glasshouse. Read More
Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Age
October 23rd, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
ROBERT OFFLEY
CentriLogic

Disaster recovery procedures are nothing new, but the evolution of cloud hosting allows organizations to leverage aspects of physical and virtual technologies to ensure their information systems and internal business practices remain operational in the event of any type of disaster, writes Robert Offley of CentriLogic. Read More
Follow-the-Moon Scheduling to Lower Energy Costs
October 22nd, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
JEFF KLAUS
Intel

Lowering energy consumption is clearly a primary goal for just about every data center manager on this planet. The answer, however, might come in the form of a combination of multiple emerging technologies, writes Jeff Klaus of Intel. Read More
The Sticking Power of Tape Storage in the Age of Big Data
October 19th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
BRIAN TRUSKOWKSKI
IBM

While there was a great deal of experimentation going on in the early days of the computer industry – and while there have been a great number of innovations since – it’s fair to say that the digital storage industry as we know it today would not have occurred without an innovation created by a team of IBM engineers 60 years ago. The innovation enabled the massive calculating machines of the day to save their results digitally on reels of magnetic tape instead of on punch cards, creating entirely new ways to view and gain insight from, digital information, writes Brian Truskowski of IBM. Read More
Retrofitting On-Site Power Systems
October 18th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
SHANE WOLFRAM
SAI Advanced Power Solutions

Retrofitting, rather than replacing, an on-site power system provides benefits to executives feeling budget pressure, writes Shane Wolfram of SAI Advanced Power Solutions. Retrofitting can enhance reliability and be cost-effective. Read More
Understanding and Controlling Cloud Sprawl
October 17th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
BILL KLEYMAN
MTM Technologies

Now, with more WAN utilization, better underlying hardware components and more organizations moving to some kind of a cloud model – the IT industry is experiencing a new type of challenge: Cloud Sprawl, writes Bill Kleyman of MTM Technologies. Read More
Cloud Computing Shifting To Cooler Climates
October 16th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
PATRICK JOBIN Storagepipe

When selecting a site for the next generation of data centers, what’s required is an area which is both very cold and also offers an abundance of low-cost energy. And this seems to make Saskatchewan an ideal location, writes John Patrick of Storagepipe. Read More