It’s that time of year when analysts, technology bloggers and journalists all look to the next 12 months, and report their predictions.Alan Priestley, of Intel Cloud Builders, gives the cloud prediction game a go.
The hyperconverged network of today not only presents new opportunities for end users and IT, but also creates new challenges for network and application performance and management, writes Miles Kelly of Riverbed.
Choosing the right cabling and cable management system is one of the most important aspects of data center design. Reliability, in combination with extreme density, should guide your choice of products, writes Ian Timmins of Optical Cable...
Working around infrastructure that has evolved over time makes retrofitting hot/cold aisle containment a challenge. Multiple data and network cable runs, cooling pipes and mismatched cabinets mean many solutions will not work effectively. Mark...
Demonstrating IT value to the enterprise is challenging. The problem is not what values IT creates—-but how to measure and communicate those values, writes Hani Elbeyali of Dell.
Winter is coming, bringing with it environmental changes that can negatively affect your data center. Now is a good time to prepare to ensure data center performance isn’t left out in the cold when frigid temperatures arrive, writes Mark Silnes...
Over the last few years, servers have become much more efficient in using power. What is less obvious are the means by which energy efficiency of computing is improved. Winston Saunders of Intel takes a look at the performance data and a more...
Security ranks highly on any data center manager’s list of priorities and it’s not difficult to understand why, especially when you consider the devastating impact that downtime or data theft can have on a business, writes Mark Hirst of Cannon...
With news of acquisitions and new products, the notion of the software-defined data center is becoming more and more clear to the broader IT audience, writes Woody Hutsell of Fusion-io.
Even with experienced IT managers charged with steeling their Internet properties against the onslaught of holiday traffic, dozens of major retail sites crashed under the seasonal load last year. Christopher Hill of Hostway shares four core...