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Calculating Data Center Costs in Virtual Environments
August 14th, 2012 : Jerry GentryMost data center managers are chartered with creating a rate card in a catalog of services to assist users who are planning their budgets. This process has been complicated by virtualization. Jerry Gentry from Nemertes Research proposes a way forward. Read More
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Integration of Data Center Services and Systems
July 18th, 2012 : Jerry GentryThe next wave of data center integration is now starting. More and more services are being integrated into a single service offering. The question is no longer whether to use the integrated switch/processor components, but how much integration is acceptable. There are implications to this decision and only your specific needs and requirements can determine how they play. Read More
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Big Data – What’s the Big Deal?
July 10th, 2012 : Jerry GentryBig Data (BD) is popular on all the social networks and forums. As much as it is being discussed, there is room to clarify what BD is all about and what owners of infrastructure need to be doing in preparation. Jerry Gentry and John Burke of Nemertes Research explore this topic in a conversation about Big Data. Read More
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Approaches to Data Center Governance
June 26th, 2012 : Jerry GentryWe’ve come a long way in managing and governing data centers. In my last post, I described a data center governance assessment model, and I suspect many of you found your data center governance nearly sufficient. However, even if your assessment indicates good posture in most areas, there are certainly some areas for improvement. Read More
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Data Center Governance: Managing Physical Space
June 7th, 2012 : Jerry GentryData center governance is a specific discipline. It is not the project management governance that brings more demand for DC services. Nor is it the audit and compliance governance that provides you policies for operation. It is the process by which you manage the physical space of your data center. Read More
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Measuring End-to-End Application Performance
May 21st, 2012 : Jerry GentryApplication modeling is an important method to show the effectiveness of your architecture and designs. Not only will you see the traffic between the client and the application server, servers which provide DNS, back-end databases and other services will show up as part of the transaction. Read More
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How Data Center Managers Show Their Value
May 8th, 2012 : Jerry GentryAs a data center manager, the deeper your knowledge of what is happening in your environment, the better you can provide and show value to your organization. Every year, Nemertes interviews hundreds of enterprise representatives asking, among other things, where they are investing, in what technologies and how successful those investments are. Read More
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Choosing a Data Center Colocation Site
April 27th, 2012 : Jerry GentryChoosing a colocation site? Here's a short list of questions to help differentiate colocation providers. I call them my “outside of the box” criteria because they are items that don’t automatically come to mind. Read More
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PUE Provides Insight Into Equipment Choices
April 11th, 2012 : Jerry GentryKnowing what it will cost you for IT infrastructure and the support infrastructure will allow you to assess the benefit or cost of a co-location strategy. It really is a matter of risk. Do you want to take on the risk for planning power and cooling capacity as well as computing capacity? Read More
About Jerry Gentry
RESOURCE LINKS:
Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
