Data Center | Guest Opinion | Costas Galonis Friday, November 18, 2011
If you are wading through the sea of words that has been written about cloud computing in the last few months, you can be forgiven for being a little confused. Not only is cloud computing a new concept, the literature about it is weighed down with new ideas and words such as virtualization, multi-tenancy etc. Continue Reading »
Enterprise Applications | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Friday, November 18, 2011
As the march toward virtualization starts to extend past server and storage infrastructure, a lot of IT organizations are starting to look at the number of databases they have to manage as the next great opportunity to reduce costs. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Guest Opinion | Louis Imershein Wednesday, October 26, 2011
High-performance storage is a key enabler for mission-critical applications in the enterprise today, particularly in the areas of database indexing, online transaction processing, desktop and server virtualization, front-end Web serving, and key infrastructure (such as email and messaging). Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) was a category that was “invented” only a few years ago. It has suddenly become a hot product as data centers struggle to keep up with ever-changing IT equipment, rising densities and increasing energy costs. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Wednesday, September 28, 2011
With multiple applications now starting to routinely share access to the same storage, performance issues have started to dog both virtualization and private cloud computing deployments. And, as is often the case across the history of IT, new technologies have suddenly emerged to address the problem. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Blog Post | Frank Ohlhorst Tuesday, September 6, 2011
It is a simple formula actually – reducing IT management overhead can increase the value of a solution. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the corporate data center, where CTOs often find themselves balancing the cost of a solution against the cost of managing that solution. Continue Reading »
IT Management | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The problem many IT organizations have when it comes to managing IT is that they either don’t have enough tools or suffer from having an excess of tools. In both cases, the outcome is generally the same in that the IT organization is not particularly efficient. Continue Reading »
