When selecting a data protection solution, it's important to pick a product that’s easy to use, writes Jarrett Potts of STORServer. He also explains why different data should be treated differently, how to eliminate the burden of virtual machine...
Management may not completely grasp exactly how important it is to setup a virtualized environment, notes Alan McMahon of Dell, who outlines reasons to consider virtualization.
In this three-part series, Jarrett Potts explains the 11 major items that must be considered before purchasing a data protection solution as well as the issues affecting businesses on multiple levels, including total cost of ownership and time...
Commissioning a data center is the last hurdle and an important one before launching a live data center. Michael Donato of Emerson Network Power explains that one of the biggest challenges for data center managers investing in the commissioning...
As the data center becomes more complex, converged infrastructure (CI) can help simplify the setup and management by minimizing compatibility issues. There are many benefits for converged infrastructure like proven design and speed of deployment...
The data center of yesteryear is no longer enough for businesses today. Businesses, large and small, are in a fast paced competitive landscape right now, regardless of industry. A big driver in this is the fact that technology has truly become...
Newly developed servers with energy management capabilities can experience dramatic fluctuations in power consumption with workload level over time – causing a variety of new problems for the design and management of data centers and network rooms...
Today’s mission-critical database applications, such as Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), feature Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) workloads that demand the highest levels of performance from...
As we celebrate the second birthday of the new SOC reporting framework, I would like to look back at the past two years and point out some trends in the application of SOC to the data center industry, writes Hassan Sultan of Reckenen.
New technologies can be broken down into two categories: those that modernize and those that revolutionize. Modernizing is basically doing the same thing as before, just a little bit faster or little bit easier. Revolutionizing is either...