Industry Perspectives » 21/45 » Data Center Knowledge

...Home
Author Archive

About Industry Perspectives

Here are my most recent posts

Server Efficiency: Aligning Energy Use With Workloads
June 12th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
WINSTON SAUNDERS
Intel

The role of energy proportionality in the energy efficient performance of a server's processor is important, writes Winston Saunders of Intel. Making server energy use more proportional to workload dramatically improves the efficiency at common data center workloads. Read More
Storage: A Secret Weapon to Lower TCO in the Data Center
June 7th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
BRENDAN COLLINS
HGST

Adopting the right storage strategy can make a vast difference in your ability to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) writes Brendan Collins, of HGST. Customizing and tiering infrastructure workloads and tuning drives by application and function will help you more efficiently handle ever-increasing amounts of data. It will also allow you to optimize power consumption, cooling, storage density and performance to deliver new data center economics models Read More
Demand Design: Beyond ‘Keeping the Lights On’
June 5th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives

What’s needed in organizations today is a new practical approach to planning and designing infrastructure, writes Hani Elbeyal of Dell. He emphasizes striking the balance between aligning the firm’s business drivers with IT strategy and reducing OpEx by spending a little more on planning, designing, automation and orchestration. Read More
Blurring the Communication Lines between IT and Facilities
May 31st, 2012 : Industry Perspectives

As hardware,software and facilities all evolve, so must the roles of the individuals who manage them as well as the collaboration and communication activities, writes Bill Kleyman of MTM Technologies. Read More
Renewable Energy in Today’s Data Center
May 30th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
RON VOKOUN
Gray Construction

Contrary to protests and reports from Greenpeace, a great deal of progress has been made in using forms of renewable energy by the leading companies in the data center industry, writes Ron Vokoun of Gray Construction. Items to consider when evaluating renewable energy, such as cost, the return on investment and the heavy reliance on incentives. Read More
Integrated Approach to DCIM Yields Best Results
May 24th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
HUGH LINDSAY
Schneider Electric

Integration between Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software systems for improved management and operation of data center physical infrastructure results in greater value and benefits to the organization, writes Hugh Lindsay of Schneider Electric. An interconnected network of expert systems enables higher value, greater opportunities for collaboration and vastly improved decision support as compared to either the status quo or a master system to encompass all elements of physical infrastructure management. Read More
Trends in Data Center Optimization
May 23rd, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
VAIBHAV BHATIA
Infosys Ltd.

With costs spiraling in the data center, focus is turning towards optimizing the data center infrastructure, writes Vaibhav Bhatia of Infosys Ltd. There are several emerging trends which demand notice and going to be discussed and debated this year. Read More
Protecting the Cloud: Data Erasure as a Best Practice
May 22nd, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
MARKKU WILLGREN
Blancco

The explosion of digital data in the last ten years has brought with it a proliferation of hardware as data centers respond to cloud demands. In 2012, Gartner predicts that worldwide data center spending for hardware – including servers, storage and networking equipment – will total $106.4 billion, and will surpass $126.2 billion by 2015. The additional hardware, as well as that needed for technology refreshes, impacts data erasure requirements as data centers respond to ongoing and emerging trends, writes Markku Willgren, of Blancco. Read More
Reducing Server Power Consumption
May 17th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
CLEMENS PFEIFFER
PowerAssure

Servers in data centers waste a substantial amount of energy, writes Clemens Pfeiffer of PowerAssure. The reason is: Servers are deployed and configured for peak capacity, performance and reliability, usually at the expense of efficiency. Read More