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.
Every choice in the area of data center power system design has an impact on data center efficiency and availability, writes Peter Panfil of Emerson's Liebert AC Power.
The financial services industry has been dealing with big data for years, and today, with more complex data analytics capabilities, financial firms are able to shorten that window for data processing and create more up-to-date strategies and...
Many enterprise data managers have traditionally responded to data growth by simply adding disk-based backup targets. However, most systems are simply not designed for today’s massive data volumes or fast data growth. As a result, for many large...
What more can IT do? To lock in your new understanding of consumer needs and to stay abreast of trends in these needs, it is essential to include a survey into your processes. This is not just a satisfaction survey vainly seeking confirmation that...
Chris Curtis of Compass Datacenters writes about the need to blast through some rock in site preparations for a new data center. Like most things in the development world, the need to conduct controlled explosions has some plusses and some minuses...
Because of varying opinions, commissioning of data centers continues to be generally misunderstood and some of the most valuable commissioning processes are underutilized, writes Michael Donato of Emerson Network Power.
A key element for ensuring responsiveness in NOC and CCC’s is to give operators the ability to see clearly and in real-time what is occurring in the systems they are managing or using, writes Simon Clew of Adder Technology.
Mark Harris of Nlyte shares his experiences, including new approaches in the data center exchange of ideas, from attending the recent Data Center World event.
Storage vendors have spent a lot of time creating products that are based on a variety of individual architectures and protocols, writes Ambuj Goyal of IBM. Once an organization commits to one of those architectures, it’s difficult to even...