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...
What has Intel learned about DCIM? Intel's Jeff Klaus shares some of the "lessons learned" by Intel's IT team as it has deployed data center management software in its own data centers. The lessons offer insights for companies contemplating DCIM...
In an era of technology evolution and sometimes turmoil, there are unexpected islands of calm populated by extremely stable legacy hardware systems. Ironically, some of these oldest citizens of the data center also happen to be the most stable and...
Data center design focuses on many aspects like Site selection, facility design, IT hardware, cooling, network, power distribution, and so forth, writes Prashant Baweja of Infosys Ltd. For a successful data center built project, few parameters...
The sheer number of computing assets we could now accommodate in the physical data center, including network devices, applications, servers and storage devices, put more pressure on the day-to-day management practicalities, writes Suvish...
When selecting an SSD for your environment, there are a variety of factors that you need to take into account if you are going to eventually choose a solution that can properly meet your needs, writes Esther Spanjer of SanDisk.
With the 2014 introduction of 64-bit low-power ARM SoC-based servers, we can expect to see a more diverse server market, wrties Graeme Caldwell of InterWorx. The data center industry is going to experience huge changes as low-powered servers...