Data Center energy Productivity, abbreviated DCeP, has been the focus of recent attention. Mark Monroe, of DLB Associates, and formerly of the Green Grid, asks if DCeP is really a valuable and useful metric for the data center industry.
Given recent events, those salespeople and sales managers should be getting a little concerned, especially if they understand the clients' business models. Most publicly, the Volcker Rule — part of the Dodd‐Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...
Optimizing power system monitoring and control at a data center can go a long way to helping ensure power reliability – a universal goal of data center management. There are four prevalent sophisticated technologies that can provide key...
Security is, at its core, an architectural issue, one that may be solvable through the technology at the very center of IT transformation: virtualization, writes Tom Corn of VMware.
By leveraging the best practices in storage outlined in this post, organizations can spend more time on innovation and less on managing inefficient infrastructure, writes Tom O'Brien of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
The secret to realizing the opportunities of petabyte-scale storage, and to overcoming its challenges, is to evolve from storing all data in the same way to storing different kinds of data in different ways, writes Jeff Flowers of SageCloud.
What should you ask yourself to better gauge what elements lead to a successful partnership with a modular data center builder? Stephen Madaffari of Data Centers Delivered outlines four key areas to consider when striking up a partnership.
There are five questions every IT team should ask about the role of mobility in business continuity and data backup plans, writes Ryan Kalember of WatchDox.
Deploying devices with greater functionality including multi-protocol support, data logging, and an onboard web interface can greatly reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of your overall DCIM solution, writes Stephen Prueger of Trendpoint.
Everyone seems to now understand the value of DCIM, but the market continues to grow at a much slower pace than projected, writes Daniel Tautges of Pinpoint Worldwide Consulting. What are the barriers to deploying DCIM?