Data center design focuses on many aspects like Site selection, facility design, IT hardware, cooling, network, power distribution, and so forth, writes Prashant Baweja of Infosys Ltd. For a successful data center built project, few parameters...
The sheer number of computing assets we could now accommodate in the physical data center, including network devices, applications, servers and storage devices, put more pressure on the day-to-day management practicalities, writes Suvish...
When selecting an SSD for your environment, there are a variety of factors that you need to take into account if you are going to eventually choose a solution that can properly meet your needs, writes Esther Spanjer of SanDisk.
With the 2014 introduction of 64-bit low-power ARM SoC-based servers, we can expect to see a more diverse server market, wrties Graeme Caldwell of InterWorx. The data center industry is going to experience huge changes as low-powered servers...
Cloud economics are so compelling the more data center managers are evaluating what additional applications make sense in the cloud, writes Noam Shendar of Zadara Storage. Yet, there are reasons why proven enterprise-class features are considered...
While cloud storage does not necessarily meet IT’s growing storage capacity needs, adding cloud-integrated storage into existing NAS or SAN environments makes it relatively easy to relocate data securely into a cloud provider, eliminating the need...
We’re all aware of the so-called “Snowden Effect,” which essentially highlights what could happen when personal information is released - so how does one continue to compete in an increasingly virtual climate without sacrificing the need to keep...
Seen as the equivalent of “dipping a toe in the water”, colocation is often viewed as the first step into outsourcing on the "Stairway to the Cloud." And pay-as-you-go colo may be just the thing to start an organization's journey into this new...
What if you could shop for cloud with a plethora of choices from an array of vendors just like you’d find in a farmers market or a modern mall? Mark Thiele of Switch explores the concept of an open marketplace that is be independent from the...