It used to be so simple…data center managers come to work, monitor traffic, and handle downtime issues as needed. Sure, there were urgent pages in the middle of the night – but these teams were the experts and largely left to their own devices. But the rules of the game are changing: And there is [...]
You can’t get away from it. Everywhere you turn, someone is touting the benefits of Green IT. In an ideal world (and it NEVER is), a green data center combines technology that stores, manages and disseminates information. The system is designed to achieve data center efficiency and power efficiency – ensuring all mechanical, lighting, electrical, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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