Companies may still be reluctant to move to cloud apps because they don't want to give up critical predictive functionality that is baked into their core business processes, such as cross-sell, next best activity, or churn management, writes John...
What are compelling business activities at the strategic level that make Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) technology essential? Business cases for supporting investments in DCIM are often a combination of hard and soft costs, writes...
SOC 2 reporting is still in its infancy stages. However, since its introduction in 2011, BrightLine has been engaged to perform hundreds of SOC 2 projects. Chris Schellman of Brightline offers tips for cloud service providers considering this...
Physical server sprawl, under-utilized assets, and lack of management tools contribute to the increase cost of running a data center. Chris Heyn of KEMP Technologies Italy explores ways to reduce costs in these areas.
This column, part of a series by Shawn Mills of Greenhouse Data, outlines more about designing an efficient facility, where design partners are the most useful and how site limitations and local ordinances force a compromise between the ideal...
IT and business should be working together, right? That’s not a rhetorical question. Rather I think it is an indication of a major shift taking place in corporations today. There is a key enabler behind this and it’s the public cloud, writes...
Our increasingly digital lives cause data to grow exponentially, while increasing the need for more compute resources. Virtualizing workloads can harness more computing output from IT hardware. But while the benefits are well known and being taken...
Storage infrastructure will soon move to primarily pre-validated hardware and software systems, known as reference architectures, writes Radhika Krishnan of Nimble Storage.
Big Data, with all its computing and storage needs, is driving the development of storage hardware, network infrastructure and new ways of handling ever-increasing computing needs. The most important infrastructure aspect of Big Data analytics is...
The real value of data center commissioning is achieved by working with an experienced Commissioning Authority (CxA) to navigate all phases of a data center new build, writes Michael Donato of Emerson Network Power.