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Channel for enterprise data center related articles from Nemertes Research

• How Data Center Managers Show Their Value

  May 8th, 2012 : Jerry Gentry

  As 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

• Choosing a Data Center Colocation Site

  April 27th, 2012 : Jerry Gentry

  Choosing 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

• PUE Provides Insight Into Equipment Choices

  April 11th, 2012 : Jerry Gentry

  Knowing 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

• DCK Guide to Enterprise Data Centers

  April 5th, 2012 : Kevin Normandeau

  Data Center Knowledge has partnered with Nemertes Research to create the Data Center Knowledge Enterprise Channel with the goal of providing enterprise class data center managers with the strategies, tips, and knowledge they need to stay informed in a business that is changing every day. This report recaps the strategies covered over the past three months. Read More

• Data Center PUE – What Does It Mean?

  March 20th, 2012 : Jerry Gentry

  Knowing you Power Usage Efficiency (PUE), Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) are critical when it comes to evaluating green data center initiatives and other strategies like build or buy. Understanding the real cost in gaining power efficiency leads to a rational conversation about the best investments to make. Read More

• The Build or Buy Decision is All About Risk

  March 6th, 2012 : Jerry Gentry

  Should you build or buy your next data center? The decision is best made by taking a step back from the technical issues and putting it into a business context based on risk analysis. Read More

• 5 Major Challenges in a Data Center Migration (Part II)

  February 28th, 2012 : Jerry Gentry

  In my last article I talked about the 5 best practices ina data center migration program. As in any project, there is also the dark side. Today I will cover the 5 things to watch out for in a data center migration. Read More

• 5 Best Practices for Data Center Migration (Part I)

  February 22nd, 2012 : Jerry Gentry

  At some time the data center you rely on will run out of something - space, power, tolerance. When that happens we are faced with the daunting task of a data center migration. Read about the five best practices in data center migration. Read More

• The Coming Colo Crunch

  January 18th, 2012 : Ted Ritter

  Enterprise colocation demand will outstrip colocation service provider supply starting this year, Nemertes projects, unless colocation providers expand at a faster rate than current growth rates would indicate. Read More