When faced with a migration to a new storage platform or consolidation of multiple environments, movement of outdated, abandoned and aged data complicates the process, writes Jim McGann of Index Engines. This value-less data can easily account for...
When it comes to driving value through data center operations, one of the prevailing challenges for facilities and IT alike is a lack of common management tools, writes Lara Greden of CA Technologies. DCIM brings together IT management tools and...
Facility development for smaller operators varies from what the Big Boys at Apple and Google are able to do, says Shawn Mills of Greenhouse Data. Mills kicks off a series on data center construction for the smaller company and how to leverage the...
Through an Energy Savings Performance Contract, federal data centers can attain both consolidation and energy efficiency goals that may have been out of reach under the current fiscal constraints, writes Jay Owen of Schneider Electric. Data center...
So how do you cash in on the cloud trend without making an huge infrastructure investment? Partnering with an established hosting provider is one solution, writes Russell Griffin of Hostway.
Many large enterprise data centers have taken an “add another system” approach to dealing with rapid backup data growth, writes Eric Silva of Sepaton. With this approach, they have simply added more single-node, disk-based backup targets every...
The opportunities of big data can help even mid-size companies compete more effectively, but only if organizations overcome technical and organizational barriers, according to David Greenfield of Silver Peak.
A good mobility and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative, coupled with virtualization, can create a flexible environment capable of growing with the needs of the user – and helping the organization reach its goals, writes Bill Kleyman of MTM...
Most in the tech industry have seen what defines Cloud Computing 1.0. Pete Johnson of ProfitBricks writes that while it’s better than traditional hosting, it’s still not all it could be. Not by a long shot. He explains what Cloud Computing 2.0...
How efficient are high performance supercomputers? With the June publication of the Green500 and Top500, it’s time to update the Exascalar analysis, which is a way to look simultaneously at efficiency and performance trends of the world’s leading...