There are five imperatives to follow to accomplish a smooth transition to the cloud. Each of these will help to transform IT as we know it and will help to reduce the costs and complexity, according to Alan McMahon of Dall.
The recent announcement by Microsoft Azure to compete on price with Amazon Web Services is a shot across the bow of AWS will most definitely bother AWS, but it should scare the stuffing out of the rest of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)...
The “information bubble” -- a holistic, intuitive, real-time management environment, which, both literally and figuratively, immerses you in analytics, dashboards, and management tools giving you complete command-and-control over the physical...
As you know, no one in this industry can afford to grow stale or complacent. There are many ways to stay updated and in-touch and this week's Data Center World show is one of the ways to keep updated about the data center industry.
Is it possible for a data center to employ distributed energy resources, like incorporating solar power, without giving up reliability? This is a worthy goal but there may be major issues that need to be addressed, writes Marina Thiry of ABB.
When building a data center - no matter the type - “cost” will quite likely take a high position in the overall comparison of design choices, writes Bruno Raeymaekers of Arcadis. What factors should be considered in calculating total cost of...
The immense growth of IaaS cloud computing has given rise to a need for highly scalable and secure virtual networks, without requiring significant investment in replacing or adding to the existing infrastructure. One virtual overlay technology...
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings – which brought many reminders of 9/11 – we saw a new hero emerge: technology. Bill Kleyman of MTM Technologies shares his thoughts on the role of technology in the horrific events of this week.
As a C-level executive with a data center (or several) in your organization, you’re undoubtedly aware that they devour electricity like small cities and that the up-front capital investment, cost of expansion or re-development is somewhere between...
Dick Benton of Glasshouse Technologies explains how to prove what you delivered, because without metrics, monitoring and reporting that demonstrates you’ve fulfilled Service Level Agreements (SLAs), your service consumers and your management won’t...