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...
While The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) meets the requirements for any current enterprise's architecture methodology, there are some unique aspects of this service which make it the framework of choice for a multitude of businesses...
The strain of adding data center capacity has extended the focus beyond redundancy of servers and switches to the physical media – the highway used to transport it all around. Two advances are reducing the cost of deploying fiber: high density...
The WAN infrastructure that branch offices have come to depend upon is stressed to the brink, threatening distributed access to data and applications and day-to-day productivity, writes Cahit Jay Akin of Mushroom Networks. He outlines three...
Almost a decade ago, before the ubiquity of smart phones, tablets, cloud computing and video streaming, university and industry researchers were already predicting the need for a hybrid packet-optical circuit switch data center network. That...
A data center construction project must have a schedule and that schedule must allow for the fact that during a six-month construction period, you’re probably going to run into some less than optimal weather. Chris Curtis of Compass Datacenters...
Software-Defined Power is emerging as the solution to application-level reliability issues being caused by power problems. Software-Defined Power, like the broader Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), is about creating a layer of abstraction that...
You are not alone if you’re experiencing a touch of PUE or budget envy, writes Tom Roberts of AFCOM. Slashdot.org recently reported “green fatigue” among data center managers who were tiring of the constant PUE chase.