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Get Hands-On Practice With GNS3
February 5th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
KEITH BARKER
CBT Nuggets

How does a network engineer or aspiring network engineer get hands-on practice? One solution is GNS3, which is a free tool available for download. Keith Barker, consultant and trainer, explains how its used and tips and tricks for getting the most out of GNS3. Read More
Steps for Protecting Your Data Center After Virtualization
February 4th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
SHANNON SBAR
APC by Schneider Electric

But while the benefits of hybrid cloud deployments are substantial, many managers focusing on off-site deployments tend to meet an unexpected challenge post-virtualization: protecting their remaining physical equipment, writes Shannon Sbar of APC by Schneider Electric. Read More
Demonstrating IT Value, Illustrated
January 29th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives

What I’m promoting is a new approach called "Business Demand Design," writes Hani Elbeyali of Dell. He asserts IT value corresponds directly to both Total Cost of Ownership and the Expected Return, and increasing the value of IT requires balancing both ER and TCO. Reducing TCO alone is not enough and will result in lowering the expected return to the IT end-users, and by virtue, reduce IT value. IT has become the single face of the company to its customers, staying in today’s competitive market requires increasing IT value, not decreasing it. Read More
The Taxonomy of Exascalar
January 28th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
WINSTON SAUNDERS Intel

The Exascalar plot of the recent Green500 data reveals insights into efficiency and performance, writes Winston Saunders of Intel. This is the final post in a three-part series. Read More
Top 10 IT Predictions for 2013
January 23rd, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
PAUL CORMIER
RedHat

In 2012, CIOs and IT teams in enterprises worldwide leveraged cloud computing architectures,while they designed their data centers to best manage the explosive amount of structured and unstructured data. In the next year, Red Hat envisions even more significant movement in the data center -- in cloud, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies, writes Paul Cormier of RedHat. Read More
Fourth Key to Brokering IT Services Internally: Advertise the Ts and Cs
January 22nd, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
DICK BENTON
Glasshouse Technologies

If enterprise IT organization are to compete with external cloud providers, they need to follow the providers' lead. Dick Benton, Glasshouse Technologies, shares another tip -- develop a simple and easy-to-read list of the terms and conditions (Ts and Cs) under which services are supplied. Read More
Supercomputing & Efficiency: November 2012 Exascalar, Part II
January 18th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
WINSTON SAUNDERS
Intel

Winston Saunders of Intel examines trends that highlight the “necessary but not sufficient” dependency of supercomputing leadership on efficiency. Read More
US Power Grid Has Issues with Reliability
January 16th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
LISA RHODES
Verne Global

The United States has an aging and unreliable power infrastructure, writes Lisa Rhodes of Verne Global. Data center operators are looking at the best geographical locations that offer clean, reliable power, and plenty of it. Read More
Cloud Security Frameworks: Security by Design
January 15th, 2013 : Industry Perspectives
BOB DEUTSCHE
Intel

Bob Deutsche of Intel has been working to craft a security approach that changes the fundamental way an enterprise views and implements security. As it turned out, the answer is deceptively simple and even somewhat intuitive, he writes. "You just have to view and manage security like you do any other business investment. The challenge is to get your CEO, CFO, and CIO to view security using the same fundamental criteria." Read More