In a November 2010 article about data center infrastructure management software, writer Derrick Harris of the popular tech site GigaOm said, “DCIM vendors have a compelling story to tell if data center operators are willing to listen.” I predict that in 2011, there will be more operators who are “all ears” when it comes to [...]
Data center operations managers are making big investments in virtualization and cloud computing as ways to reduce costs and carbon footprint associated with their power-dense environments. Research firm Gartner estimates that global spending on cloud services will hit $68 billion by the end of 2010, a gain of 16% over 2009, which is more than [...]
Today’s data center operations professional faces skyrocketing energy costs, inefficient infrastructure management tools that don’t tell the whole story, and the unknown effects of looming regulatory action. Never has this been more apparent than in the federal IT sector. Driven by a 154 percent increase in the number of federal data centers from 1998 to [...]
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