Are your IT and data center teams seen as a trusted partner or expensive necessity? These perceptions will matter as your organization considers cloud solutions that offer attractive benefits but could be disruptive to existing operations.
The announcement of eight cloud usage models is a very positive move in the direction of secure cloud services that are also open and interoperable. The Open Data Center Alliance developed these from the end-users' needs, not the vendors, which is...
This week the Open Data Center Alliance moved toward unifying the voice of IT and providing direction to the solution provider community with recommendations for enhanced security, services transparency, efficient computing and cloud...
With higher-bandwidth, lower-latency data centre interconnects, organisations can resolve the apparently contradictory demands of driving down latency, boosting performance and reducing costs by giving organisations access to a wider range of...
While outsourcing data centre needs is an attractive alternative to constructing your own facility, managers need to consider many options. This column outlines the most important elements to evaluate when outsourcing - location, security, power...
Airflow distribution problems play a significant role in increasing power consumption costs in a data center, and are primarily caused by underfloor airflow impedance, CRAC locations, and the distribution of cooling grates.
When it comes to delivering software in the cloud via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), independent software vendors (ISVs) need to view security as a primary concern and should protect their SaaS infrastructure from all angles, from all entry points...
As data centers come under increased pressure to become more energy efficient, historic data collection on pure power consumption in the Facilities areas is simply not going far and deep enough.
Facilities operations Request for Proposals (RFPs) are documents that help vet vendor contracts that can be critical to your bottom line. This column and its related PDF offer thoughts on what's important in developing these documents. The author...