The Hurricane Sandy event that hit the Northeast confirms that the use of diesel fuel to run backup generators, the location of the critical systems and primary data center as well as the geographic location of backup sites are significant to...
One of the lesser known requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct periodic audits to ensure that healthcare...
Despite efforts to predict these weather events more accurately, these extreme weather conditions continue to occur at Mother Nature's whim, and seemingly with more frequency. Larry Lang, of Quorum, takes a look at evolving technologies in the...
Moving from traditional, on-premise collaboration to a SaaS environment drastically changes the way applications using the Wide Area Network (WAN) are managed, writes David White of Ipanema Technologies.
In the last few years, focus by the data center industry has brought about substantial gains in efficiency. These improvements range from infrastructure to fundamental improvements in computing efficiency, writes Winston Saunders of Intel. What...
An Uptime Institute study also found that up to 70 percent of data center energy use is for cooling and air handling, so increasing cooling efficiency is vital to reducing costs. Start with the low-hanging fruit. You’ll be surprised how much you...
Significant effort and cost is required to achieve Uptime Institute Tier cerfications, but does certification increase uptime or service availability? asks Kris Domich of Dimension Data.
Data Center Maturity Model, developed by The Green Grid, is gaining industry acceptance as a broad-based tool for the assessment of data center system health as well as providing a systematic approach to evaluating roadmap options, writes Winston...
Storage I/O is the primary performance bottleneck for most virtualized and data-intensive applications. While processor and memory performance have grown in step with Moore’s Law, storage performance has lagged far behind. This performance gap is...
In many deployments, the lack of visibility into virtual data center security and performance may not become apparent until it’s too late, writes Kate Brew of Ixia Network Visibility Solutions. Time to consider how to achieve traffic visibility.