The United States has an aging and unreliable power infrastructure, writes Lisa Rhodes of Verne Global. Data center operators are looking at the best geographical locations that offer clean, reliable power, and plenty of it.
Bob Deutsche of Intel has been working to craft a security approach that changes the fundamental way an enterprise views and implements security. As it turned out, the answer is deceptively simple and even somewhat intuitive, he writes. "You just...
DCIM’s Big Data is data about any asset, application, process, or workflow that impacts the performance of the physical ecosystem and its ability to serve the ever-changing needs of the business, writes Gary Bunyan of iTRACS Corporation.
Making sense of information about the data center from power, cooling, rack space and CPU availability, as well as UPS devices, PDUs, chillers, HVACs, generators, branch circuits, is the role Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tools. Sev...
One sure way to get through the chaos of losing data and facilities is to know the difference between recovery and continuity, writes Jarrett Potts of STORServer.
It’s that time of year when analysts, technology bloggers and journalists all look to the next 12 months, and report their predictions.Alan Priestley, of Intel Cloud Builders, gives the cloud prediction game a go.
The hyperconverged network of today not only presents new opportunities for end users and IT, but also creates new challenges for network and application performance and management, writes Miles Kelly of Riverbed.
Choosing the right cabling and cable management system is one of the most important aspects of data center design. Reliability, in combination with extreme density, should guide your choice of products, writes Ian Timmins of Optical Cable...
Working around infrastructure that has evolved over time makes retrofitting hot/cold aisle containment a challenge. Multiple data and network cable runs, cooling pipes and mismatched cabinets mean many solutions will not work effectively. Mark...
Demonstrating IT value to the enterprise is challenging. The problem is not what values IT creates—-but how to measure and communicate those values, writes Hani Elbeyali of Dell.