What’s needed in organizations today is a new practical approach to planning and designing infrastructure, writes Hani Elbeyal of Dell. He emphasizes striking the balance between aligning the firm’s business drivers with IT strategy and reducing...
As hardware,software and facilities all evolve, so must the roles of the individuals who manage them as well as the collaboration and communication activities, writes Bill Kleyman of MTM Technologies.
Contrary to protests and reports from Greenpeace, a great deal of progress has been made in using forms of renewable energy by the leading companies in the data center industry, writes Ron Vokoun of Gray Construction. Items to consider when...
Integration between Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software systems for improved management and operation of data center physical infrastructure results in greater value and benefits to the organization, writes Hugh Lindsay of...
With costs spiraling in the data center, focus is turning towards optimizing the data center infrastructure, writes Vaibhav Bhatia of Infosys Ltd. There are several emerging trends which demand notice and going to be discussed and debated this year.
The explosion of digital data in the last ten years has brought with it a proliferation of hardware as data centers respond to cloud demands. In 2012, Gartner predicts that worldwide data center spending for hardware – including servers, storage...
Servers in data centers waste a substantial amount of energy, writes Clemens Pfeiffer of PowerAssure. The reason is: Servers are deployed and configured for peak capacity, performance and reliability, usually at the expense of efficiency.
Business drivers influence design, says Ron Diersen of Infosys Limited. The type of IT infrastructure in today's data center is designed to provide specific business services, which impacts the physical design of the data center.
With increasing size and complexity there is an increased need to drive intelligence to the domain of IT devices, writes Greg More of Raritan. Aptly named, "smart racks" bring intelligence to the data center that is helpful for planning and...
Gary Bunyan of iTRACS shares three very cool customer experiences that share one thing – the clients' ability to take advantage of the intuitive versatility of an open enterprise-class Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tool.