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Five Essential Keys to Success When Relocating a Data Center
April 4th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
BRUCE CARDOS
Datalink

A data center relocation (DCR) is not just about moving servers and plugging them in at their new locale. In reality, DCR can be one of a company's most complex and challenging endeavors, writes Bruce Cardos of Datalink. Read More
Microsoft’s Journey: Solving Cloud Reliability With Software
April 3rd, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
DAVID GAUTIER
Microsoft

Cloud service providers need to move beyond traditional reliance on complex hardware redundancy schemes and instead focus on developing more intelligent software that can monitor, anticipate, and efficiently manage the failure of physical infrastructures, writes David Gautier of Microsoft. When service availability is engineered in more resilient software, there is greater opportunity to materially rethink how the physical data center is engineered. Read More
Downtime & Cloud: What’s The Role of the Cloud in RTO and RPO Planning?
April 2nd, 2013 : Industry Perspectives

Spanning from basic file backup to a total restore, the lower costs and higher resiliency of cloud infrastructure have re-framed disaster recovery discussions by providing greater options, writes Cortney Thompson of Green House Data. Read More
Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
April 1st, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
RAVI RAJAGOPAL
CA Technologies

You might be surprised to learn that many large organizations commit to cloud computing without really knowing their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and projected Return on Investment (ROI), writes Ravi Rajagopal of CA Technologies. It’s not that they’re irresponsible and ignoring this requirement. It’s that the tools most IT teams use to evaluate TCO and ROI are inadequate for application to the cloud. Read More
Standardizing Data Center Education Can Work Wonders
March 28th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
TOM ROBERTS
AFCOM

With approximately 4 million IT jobs available United States, there's a serious shortage of qualified data center staffers. AFCOM President Tom Roberts says the best way to improve this situation is to standardize the education path for data center professionals. Read More
Designing For Dependability In The Cloud
March 27th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives

David Bills, Microsoft's chief reliability strategist, outlines the challenges facing all cloud service providers as they strive to provide highly available services to power the digital lives of billions. Providers now need to factor resiliency in at all levels and across all components of the service. Read More
Not Every Cloud Outage is Created Equal
March 26th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
ANDRES RODRIGUEZ
Nasuni

While it seems like “the cloud is down” every few months. Outages from public cloud providers do happen, but not every outage is created equal and not every outage impacts customers in the same way, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni. Read More
Colocation Communities Are a Match for Cloud
March 25th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
KEVIN DEAN
Interxion

Today’s information explosion is proof enough that data is the lifeblood of any business and, therefore, how it’s contained is a top concern. As more enterprises put their internal servers under scrutiny, they are noticing that legacy enterprise data centers are becoming increasingly ineffective, writes Kevin Dean of Interxion. Colocations options to migrate to "communities of interest" are growing. Read More
Why is Data Storage Such an Exciting Space?
March 22nd, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
VIBHAV BALARAM
CloudByte

As the IT environment has evolved, legacy storage solutions can present problems in new-age data centers, writes Vibhav Balaram of CloudByte. Read More