Over the last few years, servers have become much more efficient in using power. What is less obvious are the means by which energy efficiency of computing is improved. Winston Saunders of Intel takes a look at the performance data and a more...
Security ranks highly on any data center manager’s list of priorities and it’s not difficult to understand why, especially when you consider the devastating impact that downtime or data theft can have on a business, writes Mark Hirst of Cannon...
With news of acquisitions and new products, the notion of the software-defined data center is becoming more and more clear to the broader IT audience, writes Woody Hutsell of Fusion-io.
Even with experienced IT managers charged with steeling their Internet properties against the onslaught of holiday traffic, dozens of major retail sites crashed under the seasonal load last year. Christopher Hill of Hostway shares four core...
Dramatic growth in data center throughput has led to the increasing usage and demand for higher-performance servers, storage and interconnects. As a result, we are seeing the expansion of higher speed Ethernet solutions, specifically 10 and 40...
The majority of data center downtime was related to inadequate investments in a high-availability infrastructure. In fact, more than half of data center professionals polled agreed the majority of downtime events could have been prevented, writes...
A collaboration from two industry groups TM Forum and Open Data Center Alliance will provide a comprehensive IT view on enterprise-grade Computer Infrastructure as a Service (CIaaS) requirements, and also includes insight from some of cloud...
Efficiencies built around the end-user computing experience can actually help create a more robust data center environment. This is where technologies around user virtualization can really help. The idea here is to abstract the user from the...
The Hurricane Sandy event that hit the Northeast confirms that the use of diesel fuel to run backup generators, the location of the critical systems and primary data center as well as the geographic location of backup sites are significant to...
One of the lesser known requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct periodic audits to ensure that healthcare...