While SOC 2 has potential, SOC 1 remains one of the most important assurance tools for hosting providers, writes Chris Schellman of Brightline. Decision makers should recognize that data centers are often valid...
Top-notch IT organizations are moving apps to the cloud, because they are realizing that it's easier to consume quality infrastructure from vendors than to build out increasingly large numbers of assets into their own...
While data centers may seem the same, there are significant differences between data center providers that can drive up both your costs and your IT downtime risk, writes William Dougherty of Raging Wire.
IT managers in big data environments know they need deduplication. However, few are aware that inline/hash-based deduplication technologies are not able to efficiently deduplicate multi-stream database data...
While much of the capital cost of a data center is in the IT hardware, the infrastructure alone can cost from $10M to $20M per megawatt, depending on the design and construction of the data center, writes Winston...
The demand for low latency has been a driver for the adoption of optical networks based on Wave Division Multiplexing, writes Linda Faust of Transmode. As services evolve then low latency will continue to become an...
Recent studies and articles have pointed out the fact that IT environments are in a constant state of change. The data center needs to evolve or simply become extinct—think along the lines of Betamax and the Walkman...
It’s time to put the business ahead of technology again, writes Douglas Balog of IBM. It’s time for systems that are built with industry expertise, ready for the cloud and designed for data.
Brian Thomas, of Weaver, explains American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) standards for data center auditing to assist data centers and their customers.