Music and Data Center Industry

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 30, 2013

Most of the music that people listen to today is delivered out of a data center as opposed to a record distribution company’s warehouse. Companies need data center spaces for music-streaming companies.

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Tags: Data Center, Music

What Drives People to Maintain Information Security

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 27, 2013

What are the key drivers for people to keep business information secure? There are many articles about the best strategies and practices. But knowing the key drivers can encourage people to keep information more secure.

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Tags: Security, drivers, information

Habits Of Successful Data Center Security Teams

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 26, 2013

What would you say are the most important habits for data center teams to have?

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Tags: Data Center, Security, Habits, Success

How To Implement Virtualization In Process Manufacturing

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 24, 2013

The benefits of virtualization apply to the IT enterprise and industrial automation including:

  • Application load-balancing.
  • Decreased energy consumption and footprint.
  • Extended lifecycles and more.
  • Hardware consolidation.
  • High availability.
  • Improved uptime.
  • Increased fault tolerance.
  • Rapid disaster recovery.

A complete virtual solution consists of software and hardware components.

Typical virtualization architectures consist of physical components including servers (hosts), storage arrays, Ethernet networks, a management PC, and desktop clients.

Considerations for Designing a Solution

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Tags: Virtualization, Implementation, Process, Manufacturing

Is critical data safe in the cloud?

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 23, 2013

Cloud services promise economic benefits, scalability and flexibility. They can trigger perceived risks for companies that are concerned about security, data protection, reliability and availability.

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Tags: Cloud, critical data, safe

Steps to Optimize Data Center Power

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 20, 2013

Here are a few ideas for ways to optimize data center power:

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Tags: Data Center, Optimize, Power

Are You on Thin Ice? Skate Your Way to the SDDC

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 19, 2013

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” ~ Wayne Gretzky

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Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Is Going To Build A $250M Data Center In Finland

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 18, 2013

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is planning to invest $250 million into a new data center in Finland decreasing Microsoft’s latency and expanding service capabilities for their European customers. Microsoft’s modular datacenter architecture works with the climate in Finland.

This is the second major international data center in the country. Google is building a data center from a repurposed wood pulp plant in Finland.

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Tags: Data Center, Microsoft, Finland

3 Emerging Energy Trends Data Center Management Should Consider in 2013

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 17, 2013

Here are a few of the largest trends emerging in the effort to conserve energy:

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Tags: Data Center, Management, 2013, Trends, Energy

DOE Launches National Fuel Cell Technology Evaluation Center

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 16, 2013

The Department of Energy (DOE) National Fuel Cell Technology Evaluation Center is dedicated to independent analysis of advanced hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

Learn more about National Fuel Cell Technology Evaluation Center

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Tags: DOE, National Fuel Cell Technology Evaluation Center

Smartphone Users Demand 100% Network Uptime, Survey Says

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 13, 2013

1,000 consumers participated in the online survey, conducted by traffic management vendor Vasona Networks.

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Tags: Survey, Smartphone, Network Uptime

Red Sox and IT

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 12, 2013

In this article, Steve Conley, Red Sox IT Director, discusses how Fenway has advanced Wi-Fi.

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Tags: IT, Red Sox

Can Cloud-Based Heart Monitor Shorten Hospital Stays?

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 11, 2013

Web Biotechnology, based in Singapore, created a new type of heart monitor utilizes cloud to collect medical data in time and could shorten patient hospital stays.

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Tags: Cloud-Based, Heart Monitor, Hospital

How Surveillance Impacts Cloud and Data Center

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 9, 2013

With more information, users and devices requesting data, there are many privacy and protection challenges.

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Tags: Data Center, Cloud, Surveillance, Impact

Building Blocks of Successful Corporate IT

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 5, 2013

Disruptions in business models, technology, and work force have led to new challenges for CIOs and technology leaders. The business starts to see technology cost rise due to increased need and not mismanagement thus forming a circle.

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Tags: IT, Building Blocks, Corporate

Are Employees Putting Your Company’s Data at Risk?

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 4, 2013

With flexibility come security risks associated with intellectual property and company data. Clearly, the need to distribute data externally and do so quickly is growing.

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Tags: employees, Company’s Data, Risk

Washington Post Site Hacked

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Sep 3, 2013

Washington Post acknowledged that a sophisticated phishing attack against the site led to hacking of Web site.

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Tags: Washington Post, Hacked, Phishing