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.
In building modular data centers, there is no one answer because every project is different. However, there are four factors to consider when determining whether or not your project should be built off-site, writes Stephen Madaffari of Data...
Continuous data protection technologies allow companies to take snapshots of data within the data center, backup this data more often and replicate it to an offsite data center, reducing data loss to almost zero. writes Darrell Riddle of FalconStor.
One of the biggest IT challenges this year for organizations of all sizes is data protection and disaster recovery, writes Peter Eicher of Syncsort. Proper planning is critical to business continuity.
You must develop a cost model so you can determine the cost per deployable unit of your compute and storage resources. You don’t have to have a charge-back, but you do need to be able to show costs and report on costed usage, writes Dick Benton of...
Disaster recovery procedures are nothing new, but the evolution of cloud hosting allows organizations to leverage aspects of physical and virtual technologies to ensure their information systems and internal business practices remain operational...
Lowering energy consumption is clearly a primary goal for just about every data center manager on this planet. The answer, however, might come in the form of a combination of multiple emerging technologies, writes Jeff Klaus of Intel.
While there was a great deal of experimentation going on in the early days of the computer industry – and while there have been a great number of innovations since – it’s fair to say that the digital storage industry as we know it today would not...