The data center of yesteryear is no longer enough for businesses today. Businesses, large and small, are in a fast paced competitive landscape right now, regardless of industry. A big driver in this is the fact that technology has truly become...
Newly developed servers with energy management capabilities can experience dramatic fluctuations in power consumption with workload level over time – causing a variety of new problems for the design and management of data centers and network rooms...
Today’s mission-critical database applications, such as Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), feature Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) workloads that demand the highest levels of performance from...
As we celebrate the second birthday of the new SOC reporting framework, I would like to look back at the past two years and point out some trends in the application of SOC to the data center industry, writes Hassan Sultan of Reckenen.
New technologies can be broken down into two categories: those that modernize and those that revolutionize. Modernizing is basically doing the same thing as before, just a little bit faster or little bit easier. Revolutionizing is either...
2013 is nearly halfway over and it’s clear that this year’s meme is “Software-Defined”—specifically in my line of work, the “Software-Defined” Data Center, writes Brian Reagan of Actifio.
There are several ways to boost reliability and resiliency of emergency/backup power in the face of a utility power outage. One increasingly popular trend is to install advanced power monitoring and control capabilities that take advantage of...
Being able to provide global access to data while delivering a uniform level of data protection is a formidable challenge, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni.
Chris Curtis of Compass Datacenters writes about the last phase of a data center development project. A tight schedule tends to add a degree of intensity to things. People are focused and the inter-dependencies of various operations become even...