Shifting a larger share of an IT project's budget to the concept and planning stages can help all the stakeholders proceed with a common framework. This includes designing from the infrastructure up to ensure that workloads are designed to meet...
The larger the data grows, the more it tends to bring the applications, the platforms, and ultimately, the processors closer and closer to the accumulating mass of data - a concept of gravitational forces, writes Tate Cantrell of Verne Global.
While IT teams look back on the history of silos as the hallmark of inefficiency, if you fast-forward to today's trend of consolidation, virtualized data centers, and, ultimately, data center convergencem the future looks brighter, writes Kent...
In this final installment of the developer's diary, Compass Data Center's Chris Crosby relates how to prepare for and answer questions from the local authorities at the Permitting and Inspecting Commission to get the prized "final approval."
Users like the efficiency, elasticity and customizability they get from public cloud offerings, writes Dick Benton, principal consultant with Glasshouse Technologies. This means IT must deliver those same benefits, and in a way that not only...
In disaster preparedness, the importance of staying ready for a hurricane or any other disaster cannot be understated, because you really never know when one may strike. Blaine Raddon, of Acronis, writes that it’s becoming more important than ever...
Eric Boonstra of EvoSwitch writes about the industry trends discussed at the DataCentres 2012 event, including challenges in the area of connectivity and the reality that data centers will no longer be able to avoid the need for green...
In this second post in a series on density, Tate Cantrell of Verne Global writes about key considerations for data center planners as they work strategically to not only handle data center density, but to benefit from it.
Today CIOs want to take advantage of the cost and efficiency benefits of cloud computing. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are ideally placed to benefit from this demand by offering value-added services to enterprise customers whilst...
The Data Deluge occurring in today’s content-rich Internet, cloud and enterprise applications is increasing the volume, velocity and variety of information data centers must now process, writes Raghu Kondapalli of LSI Corporation. In response...