If you adopt a service-oriented management focus, the goal of both management efforts is the same — to enable the optimal delivery of a service to the end user. That said, the IT and facilities management worlds should not need to operate in...
The changes we’re due to see in 2014 start with the way people think. A good bit of the change going on in IT is about the maturity of its business leaders and their business planning skills associated with all of those changes, writes Mark Harris...
2014 will be the year of the hybrid cloud solution. As these hybrid solutions gain momentum, they will fuel more widespread public cloud adoption in enterprise circles than we have ever seen before. When you think about it, this has actually been...
How do we craft a set of New Year’s resolutions for our data centers that will endure, and actually help to transform operations for the better? It’s actually getting easier, writes Aaron Rallo of TSO Logic.
How do you optimize your environment for 2014? Given the continued focus on improving computer room cooling efficiency and that the typical data center today has cooling capacity that is nearly four times the IT load, data centers could reduce...
For data centers, which rely on a steady and reliable stream of electricity, power interruption can be extremely costly and, in some cases, damaging to a facility’s reputation, writes Bhavesh Patel of ASCO. When building new data centers, owners...
Data center managers pay as much attention to monitoring, managing and maintaining the physical systems - power, cooling, and so on - that support the IT equipment as IT managers do to their IT assets. And just as IT management has evolved to deal...
Even if your organization is well-informed about the value of branch circuit power monitoring, and you are committed to doing it right, you might be curious about the best ways to choose and implement a power monitoring system, writes Jon Trout of...
Big catastrophic events are not your most probable threat to business continuity. In reality, smaller, disruptive events can cause the same damaging effect and are far more likely to occur, writes David Van Allen of INetU. He says you can plan for...
In 2014, many organizations will implement DCIM for the first time or expand or replace their existing implementation. Several critical factors will help organizations succeed. Lara Greden of CA Technologies outlines recommended best practices on...