While The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) meets the requirements for any current enterprise's architecture methodology, there are some unique aspects of this service which make it the framework of choice for a multitude of businesses...
The strain of adding data center capacity has extended the focus beyond redundancy of servers and switches to the physical media – the highway used to transport it all around. Two advances are reducing the cost of deploying fiber: high density...
The WAN infrastructure that branch offices have come to depend upon is stressed to the brink, threatening distributed access to data and applications and day-to-day productivity, writes Cahit Jay Akin of Mushroom Networks. He outlines three...
Almost a decade ago, before the ubiquity of smart phones, tablets, cloud computing and video streaming, university and industry researchers were already predicting the need for a hybrid packet-optical circuit switch data center network. That...
A data center construction project must have a schedule and that schedule must allow for the fact that during a six-month construction period, you’re probably going to run into some less than optimal weather. Chris Curtis of Compass Datacenters...
Software-Defined Power is emerging as the solution to application-level reliability issues being caused by power problems. Software-Defined Power, like the broader Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), is about creating a layer of abstraction that...
You are not alone if you’re experiencing a touch of PUE or budget envy, writes Tom Roberts of AFCOM. Slashdot.org recently reported “green fatigue” among data center managers who were tiring of the constant PUE chase.
Every choice in the area of data center power system design has an impact on data center efficiency and availability, writes Peter Panfil of Emerson's Liebert AC Power.
The financial services industry has been dealing with big data for years, and today, with more complex data analytics capabilities, financial firms are able to shorten that window for data processing and create more up-to-date strategies and...
Many enterprise data managers have traditionally responded to data growth by simply adding disk-based backup targets. However, most systems are simply not designed for today’s massive data volumes or fast data growth. As a result, for many large...