Many data centers struggle with achieving the perfect balance between reducing costs and increasing performance.
Tags: Information Banking
Do you believe in the notion of “the data center of everything?” More platforms, services and users are deploying their workloads to a data center infrastructure. Dependence around the data center and the resources that they provide is increasing.
The number of data centers in operation worldwide will increase from over 191,000 to 202,000 between 2011 and 2014. Total data center square footage increasing from 569 million to 737 million.
Tags: Data Centers, DCIM
Industry Trends and Vision: Evolution toward Data Center Virtualization and Private Clouds
Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Jul 16, 2013
IT managers across the world are struggling to make their networks meet performance benchmarks, despite ongoing investments.
Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Industry Trends, Vision, Private Clouds
"The recent proliferation of cloud services, and the rush among telcos to provide them, leaves the DCIM market potentially on the verge of tremendous growth."
~Martin Courtney, research analyst with Heavy Reading Service Provider IT Insider
Tags: DCIM Platforms, Growth
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin
Analysts James Staten, John Rymer, Vivian Brown and Phil Murphy interviewed 28 developer organizations published in "Forrester Wave: Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms, Q2 2013." IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS (platform-as-a-service) options for developers were considered.
* A variety of providers were considered. PaaS platforms included Salesforce.com's Force.com, Microsoft's Azure and Google's App Engine, and runners-up IBM, Rackspace and Verizon Terremark.
Tags: Public Cloud, Choices, Developers
Planning around cloud involves manpower planning, recruitment, employee management, provision of materials, job leveling, compensation administration, training, timekeeping, etc.
Tags: Management, Cloud, Human Resource
As you are creating a list of questions for information security, what questions should you ask? Here is a list from Net Security from Creating a cloud security policy.
Perhaps a differentiation is the level of the organisation such as small business vs corporate. These considerations mainly apply to corporate organisations.
Microsoft has received tax incentives to help it with a $677 million expansion of west Des Moines, Iowa data center.
Tags: Data Center, Microsoft, expansion, Iowa