Some people dream of being rich, happily married, or living forever. Regarding data center managers, they dream of the day when IT infrastructures will be more power efficient. OK, I’m exaggerating, but you get where I’m going with this. For years, IT managers have chased the dream of a data center that maximizes power while [...]
Remember when you were a kid? You’d run through the house, going from room to room, playing without a care in the world. Unfortunately, this was usually followed by a lecture from your parents about turning off the lights before you leave a room. I’m sure the comment, “What am I made of money?” was [...]
Sponsored by our furniture supplier, Office Furniture Partnership, the “Hugs From Home” program sends both fun and practical items to our troops all over the world. The FieldView team had a great time filling the plastic tubes OFP provided with unique treats to send to American military men and women. FieldView exceeded our donation goal [...]
It used to be so simple…data center managers were responsible for ensuring peak performance of their silo’d resources i.e. network, storage, server, and application domains. Jobs focused on ensuring each individual piece was up and running to achieve data center efficiency and power efficiency. But then something happened; information explosion, virtualization, automation and data center [...]
There’s no doubt about it, the universe is expanding. The digital universe, that is— with a sheer volume of unstructured information exploding. Floods of e-mails, documents, pictures and social media for both business and personal use are causing data centers to reach their breaking point. In its report, “The Digital Universe Decade – Are You [...]
There’s no doubt about it, the world of IT is changing. The rise of virtualization and cloud computing has spawned a whole new IT paradigm. With the promise of helping companies work smarter and faster, cloud computing is being adopted by companies worldwide to cut costs and drive new efficiencies. This new data center is [...]
One of the biggest stories of the last half of 2010 was Google’s purchase of the 111 8th Avenue building. In a statement, Google claimed that its purchase of the building was meant to provide access to additional office space for its growing New York sales and engineering operation at 111 8th Avenue. But office [...]
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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