We’ve come a long way in managing and governing data centers. In my last post, I described a data center governance assessment model, and I suspect many of you found your data center governance nearly sufficient. ...

Data center governance is a specific discipline. It is not the project management governance that brings more demand for DC services. Nor is it the audit and compliance governance that provides you policies for...

Application modeling is an important method to show the effectiveness of your architecture and designs. Not only will you see the traffic between the client and the application server, servers which provide DNS, back...

As a data center manager, the deeper your knowledge of what is happening in your environment, the better you can provide and show value to your organization. Every year, Nemertes interviews hundreds of enterprise...

Choosing a colocation site? Here's a short list of questions to help differentiate colocation providers. I call them my “outside of the box” criteria because they are items that don’t automatically come to mind.

Knowing what it will cost you for IT infrastructure and the support infrastructure will allow you to assess the benefit or cost of a co-location strategy. It really is a matter of risk. Do you want to take on the risk...

Knowing you Power Usage Efficiency (PUE), Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) are critical when it comes to evaluating green data center initiatives and other strategies like build or buy. Understanding the...

Should you build or buy your next data center? The decision is best made by taking a step back from the technical issues and putting it into a business context based on risk analysis.