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Seven Tips to Help Keep IT Competitive
August 9th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
DICK BENTON
Glasshouse Technologies

Users like the efficiency, elasticity and customizability they get from public cloud offerings, writes Dick Benton, principal consultant with Glasshouse Technologies. This means IT must deliver those same benefits, and in a way that not only improves the quality of services rendered, but delivers higher productivity levels and, ultimately, more revenue. Read More
Can Your Backup Plan Weather A Hurricane?
August 8th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
BLAINE RADDON
Acronis

In disaster preparedness, the importance of staying ready for a hurricane or any other disaster cannot be understated, because you really never know when one may strike. Blaine Raddon, of Acronis, writes that it’s becoming more important than ever for businesses to feel confident that they know where their critical data is backed up and how to recover it to get business running again. Read More
Data Center Trends: Connectivity is Key, Green is Inevitable
August 7th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives

Eric Boonstra of EvoSwitch writes about the industry trends discussed at the DataCentres 2012 event, including challenges in the area of connectivity and the reality that data centers will no longer be able to avoid the need for green entrepreneurship. But green entrepreneurship doesn't mean "greenwashing" either. Read More
Density – More than a Metric (Part 2)
August 6th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
TATE CANTRELL
Verne Global

In this second post in a series on density, Tate Cantrell of Verne Global writes about key considerations for data center planners as they work strategically to not only handle data center density, but to benefit from it. Read More
Delivering Corporate Networks to the Cloud: Is Your Network Ready?
August 3rd, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
DAVID WHITE
Ipanema Technologies

Today CIOs want to take advantage of the cost and efficiency benefits of cloud computing. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are ideally placed to benefit from this demand by offering value-added services to enterprise customers whilst countering the erosion of traditional MPLS revenues at the same time, writes David White of Ipanema Technologies. Read More
Virtualization of Data Centers: New Options in the Control and Data Planes
August 2nd, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
RAGHU KONDAPALLI
LSI Corp.

The Data Deluge occurring in today’s content-rich Internet, cloud and enterprise applications is increasing the volume, velocity and variety of information data centers must now process, writes Raghu Kondapalli of LSI Corporation. In response, organizations have begun virtualizing their data centers to become more cost-effective, power-efficient, scalable and agile. Read More
Do You Control Your Data Center or Is It Controlling You?
August 1st, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
BEN ESHAY
RiT Technologies

In the last few years, data center operators seem to be constantly struggling to take control of various aspects of the data center in an effort to attain higher efficiency, writes Ben Eshay of RiT Techologies. One reason why efficiency seems so hard to attain could be the fact that the parameters in all areas of a data center are constantly changing. Read More
Density – More than a Metric (Part 1)
July 31st, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
TATE CANTRELL
Verne Global

In a data center developer’s parlance, as in physics, the unit of data center density is pretty straightforward – server input power per unit of area – kilowatts per square meter or watts per square foot. There are, however, plenty of other variables that shape a discussion on the topic, writes Tate Cantrell of Verne Global. Read More
How Cloud Computing Has Shifted Engineering Hiring Demands: Part 2
July 27th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
BILL KLEYMAN
MTM Technologies

Beyond personality shifts, hiring managers and organizations are looking for engineers and administrators to become "jacks-of-all-trades." This doesn’t mean being an absolute expert at all of the technologies out there, writes Bill Kleyman of MTM Technologies. He identifies some areas where all workers need to have some basic understanding. Read More