Data Center Strategy and Best Practices
"There are a lot of different factors at play," said Bob Laliberte, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in Milford, Mass.
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Data center consolidation continues to be a hot topic for IT in both the private and public sectors. As I noted previously, HP is going to consolidate its acquired EDS data centers after just finishing a major effort to reduce its own data centers from more than 80 down to ...
ESG Research indicates widespread IT spending on data center transformation, IT consolidation, and server virtualization. This will help reduce costs and streamline operations, right? Yes, in theory, but many IT consolidation projects suffer through planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity—especially for remote ...
Published on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 at 3:19 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight |
In order to assess data center facility consolidation and construction priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 515 North American and Western European senior IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations. All respondents were personally responsible for or familiar with ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight |
Worldwide, there has been a lot of focus in recent years on reducing the environmental impact of data centers. Green always comes at a cost, but once it is viewed as a long-term investment rather than as a quick return on investment (ROI), it can be a ...
In a great example of practicing what you preach, HP is launching another Data Center consolidation initiative. This time it will involve the 180 odd data centers that were acquired when HP bought EDS. HP had just finished a major initiative that consolidated 85 data centers down ...
Throughout my 20 plus year career in IT consulting, I have noticed that the most successful businesses often have something in common – they run their IT like a business and they treat IT like a key part of the business, and not like an add-on function. ...
This ESG Lab report explores how EMC VPLEX can be used to create a heterogeneous pool of storage resources that can be accessed and shared over distance. VPLEX-enabled VMotion over distance and the performance of SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server applications are examined as a mix of ...
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In my experience as a system administrator, I felt I was a pretty good administrator of systems, but that definitely did not mean I was a good manager of systems. Sure, we had some point management tools in place, but for the ...
FCoE has been on a fast track since its inception, going from concept to alpha, beta and now 2nd generation technology in a couple short years. This rapid evolution, while notable, and even impressive, is not enough to justify deploying a new technology. For enterprise data centers, the ...
