With the availability of fast interconnect technologies, disaggregation of storage from the compute servers considerably reduces the total cost of investment in the data center in various ways, improves the efficiency of the storage utilization...

The continuous purchase of new equipment can be fueled by the effective resale of the old, writes Kyle Bittner of Ex-IT Technologies. IT departments, large and small, know the key to a seamless upgrade path is the effective resale of aging...

Technologies like flash, or solid-state memory, and tiering have evolved to the point where, when combined, they are proven cost-efficient for the data center, writes Alan Atkinson of Dell. They provide the speed, agility, flexibility and cost...

DCIM gives organizations several options for responding to business needs via the data center infrastructure, writes Lara Greden of CA Technologies. Work closely with your vendor as you put your DCIM strategy into action and ensure that your DCIM...

A huge component of this success of your organization's cloud experience will be dependent on where your cloud infrastructure is housed. The data center that your cloud calls home will have certain capabilities and features that may be the...

Seismic certification of critical electrical equipment is an important component in the building of new data centers in every geographic location in the United States, writes Bhavesh Patel of ASCO/Emerson Network Power.

Cables may not be the most glamourous part of the data center, but they certainly are important. Scott VanDenBerg of Optical Cable Corporation writest that good cable pathway designers know that multiple products must work together to ensure a...

With experts estimating the average cost of downtime at $5,000 per minute, many organizations are at significant risk when it comes to the reliability of their data environments. WAN Virtualization can be deployed to prevent disasters from...

Now, cold spots have become the new challenge, and opportunity, for data center operations. A cold spot is any IT intake temperature less than the established minimum, writes Lars Strong, Upsite Technologies. He outlines tips for dealing with cold...