Now, cold spots have become the new challenge, and opportunity, for data center operations. A cold spot is any IT intake temperature less than the established minimum, writes Lars Strong, Upsite Technologies. He outlines tips for dealing with cold...
Object storage is a new storage paradigm that is seeing growing interest as it addresses the challenge of efficiently storing massive volumes of unstructured data: Big Unstructured Data, writes Tom Leyden of Data Direct Networks.
Data center downtime is a familiar topic in the industry; however avoiding down time through proactive fuel management is not common knowledge in the field despite an emerging relevance. A vast majority of data centers use diesel to supply their...
The issue of how to best allocate IT resources is becoming more pressing in part because of the rate of growth in data storage and transfer activities across multiple streams. As the sheer volume of data generated grows at an astonishing pace, IT...
Energy is certainly one of the critical Total Cost of Ownership variables, as data centers are significant consumers of energy. Energy efficiency gains have a significant impact on TCO and annual operating expenses, especially on high power, long...
IT landscapes are rapidly changing to improve compute infrastructure and better service business needs and the storage network plays a very vital role in these environments, writes Tim Lustig of QLogic.
Data center and facilities management professionals from around the world are heading to Orlando, known as the "happiest place on earth," for the fall Data Center World event, to gain knowledge and insight in the ever-demanding issues in the data...
Moving to the cloud and Remote Managed IT Services (RMITS) are this year’s hot trends in colocation, writes Tom Asbury of SUNGARD Availability Services.