Audit standards for data centers are weak and poorly used, says Mike Klein of Online Tech. The new audit reports, SSAE 16, SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3, meant to substantiate data center merits, are leaving the entire market dazed and confused.
The need to streamline and provide cloud IT services, as well as extensive monitoring and management, remains and will grow, according to Bruce Lichorowic. CEO of San Jose, CA-based Blue Hawk Networks.
Marc Crespi of ExaGrid explains the key differences to keep in mind when comparing disk backup architectures.
Gartner conference attendees’ pressing interest this year was beyond the "shiny new" topics, but were more day-to-day challenges: avoiding IT outages and increasing speed of service recovery, along with monitoring, as related by James Sivis of...
Bob Duestche of Intel continues his discussion of cloud computing principles with consideration of networks and bandwidth, asserting bandwidth and data transmission may not always be as inexpensive and unencumbered as they are today.
Bryan Doerr, of Savvis/CenturyLink, writes that the current swirl of activity in IT means for the role of the CIO as orchestrator of the overall corporate application portfolio is changing.
From New York to London to Tokyo, the hot buzz words “High Frequency Trading (HFT)” and “algorithmic trading” have been making their rounds on the world’s largest stock exchanges. They have revolutionized the way deals are made and this fast...
Billy Cox, of Intel, describes the way workloads are managed through large cloud environments, including some areas where Intel is collaborating with the Open Stack community.