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Visualizing Trends in “Energy Per Operation”
December 6th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
WINSTON SAUNDERS
Intel

Over the last few years, servers have become much more efficient in using power. What is less obvious are the means by which energy efficiency of computing is improved. Winston Saunders of Intel takes a look at the performance data and a more detailed look at the trends. Read More
Physical Security: Rack Security and Protection
December 5th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
MARK HIRST
CANNON TECHNOLOGIES

Security ranks highly on any data center manager’s list of priorities and it’s not difficult to understand why, especially when you consider the devastating impact that downtime or data theft can have on a business, writes Mark Hirst of Cannon Technologies. Read More
Beyond Hardware: Software Defined Storage
December 3rd, 2012 : Industry Perspectives

With news of acquisitions and new products, the notion of the software-defined data center is becoming more and more clear to the broader IT audience, writes Woody Hutsell of Fusion-io. Read More
E-commerce Sites Gearing Up for e-Christmas 2012
November 29th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives

Even with experienced IT managers charged with steeling their Internet properties against the onslaught of holiday traffic, dozens of major retail sites crashed under the seasonal load last year. Christopher Hill of Hostway shares four core strategies for bulletproofing your site while also keeping it secure. Read More
Benefits of Deploying SFP+ Fiber vs. 10GBase-T
November 27th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
BJORN BAERA
Mellanox

Dramatic growth in data center throughput has led to the increasing usage and demand for higher-performance servers, storage and interconnects. As a result, we are seeing the expansion of higher speed Ethernet solutions, specifically 10 and 40 gigabit Ethernet, writes Bjorn Baera of Mellanox. Read More
Is Your Data Center Ready for Cyber Monday?
November 26th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
PETER PANFIL
Emerson Network Power

The majority of data center downtime was related to inadequate investments in a high-availability infrastructure. In fact, more than half of data center professionals polled agreed the majority of downtime events could have been prevented, writes Peter Panfil of Emerson Network Power. Read More
Compute Infrastructure as a Service (CIaaS) Best Practices Detailed
November 20th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
Robert Cohen
TM Forum

A collaboration from two industry groups TM Forum and Open Data Center Alliance will provide a comprehensive IT view on enterprise-grade Computer Infrastructure as a Service (CIaaS) requirements, and also includes insight from some of cloud computing’s earliest adopters, writes Robert Cohen of TM Forum. Read More
Data Center Efficiencies – A Look at The End-User
November 19th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
Bill Kleyman
MTM Technologies

Efficiencies built around the end-user computing experience can actually help create a more robust data center environment. This is where technologies around user virtualization can really help. The idea here is to abstract the user from the hardware layer, writes Bill Kleyman of MTM Technologies. Read More
Hurricane Sandy Post-Mortem: Will Your Critical IT Systems Survive Another Major Power Outage?
November 16th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
VINCE PELLY
Citihub

The Hurricane Sandy event that hit the Northeast confirms that the use of diesel fuel to run backup generators, the location of the critical systems and primary data center as well as the geographic location of backup sites are significant to sustaining the ongoing critical operations for organizations, writes Vince Pelly of Citihub. Read More