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 »
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 | Guest Opinion | Teresa Worth Friday, October 21, 2011
Solid state drive (SSD) technology, long touted for its high speed, is a staple in the consumer market, appearing in such varied applications as digital cameras, USB sticks and MP3 players. But increasing adoption of data-intensive applications that require high performance has brought SSD data storage to the enterprise. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Guest Opinion | Mike Frank Wednesday, October 19, 2011
According to a 2010 Gartner survey, some of the top challenges for large enterprises are data growth and scalability. Thirty percent of those surveyed had plans to build a new data center by the end of 2011 and more than half planned to expand capacity in their existing data center. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Guest Opinion | Steve Tack Monday, September 19, 2011
The mainframe has long been established as a secure, scalable and reliable platform for high-value data and high-volume transactions such as enterprise resource planning, online order-taking and financial transaction processing. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Guest Opinion | Rajini Padmanaban Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Service-level agreements (SLAs) and associated metrics can be applied to projects at various levels and for a diverse set of disciplines. In this write-up, I am focusing on what it takes to implement such SLAs in the true spirit for quality assurance (QA) efforts. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Guest Opinion | Joe Forgione Monday, July 25, 2011
SEPATON recently conducted a survey of large enterprise IT managers to understand the data protection challenges that most concern them. Not surprisingly, the survey showed that the volume of data under protection continues to skyrocket. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Guest Opinion | Ramon Chen Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Last year, Gartner published a report titled, “Enterprise Information Archiving Transforms the Strategy and Approach for Archiving." It forecast that enterprise information archiving (EIA) will become a key infrastructure component and will hold both structured data and unstructured content by 2013. Continue Reading »
