When fitted with safety lenses, Google Glass provides a great opportunity to revolutionize the way data center technicians perform their daily tasks. When dedicated maintenance and repair applications are developed, the data center technician will...
2014 is the year of DCIM – the year that DCIM will drive increasing business value for users, writes Gary Bunyan of iTRACS. And he asserts that DCIM's that are "open" will be better to employ than those that are not.
Although Intelligent Infrastructure Management (IIM) systems are proven solutions for enhancing visibility and efficiency, the data center industry has been slow to embrace them, writes Tal Harel of RiT Technologies. She gives an overview of why...
To meet the challenges of ever-growing data and its analysis, and in order to get past organizational sensory overload and actually derive intelligence from its data, businesses must rethink computing, writes Nikita Ivanov of GridGain Systems.
While Dropbox is great for collaboration, it does have security risks. Rather than replacing Dropbox, another layer of security can be added that would enable organizations to control which files are uploaded to Dropbox, and who has authority to...
If you adopt a service-oriented management focus, the goal of both management efforts is the same — to enable the optimal delivery of a service to the end user. That said, the IT and facilities management worlds should not need to operate in...
The changes we’re due to see in 2014 start with the way people think. A good bit of the change going on in IT is about the maturity of its business leaders and their business planning skills associated with all of those changes, writes Mark Harris...
2014 will be the year of the hybrid cloud solution. As these hybrid solutions gain momentum, they will fuel more widespread public cloud adoption in enterprise circles than we have ever seen before. When you think about it, this has actually been...
How do we craft a set of New Year’s resolutions for our data centers that will endure, and actually help to transform operations for the better? It’s actually getting easier, writes Aaron Rallo of TSO Logic.
How do you optimize your environment for 2014? Given the continued focus on improving computer room cooling efficiency and that the typical data center today has cooling capacity that is nearly four times the IT load, data centers could reduce...