IT Operations
There are a lot of them around, data centres. A few of them are designed and operated very well and deliver great power usage efficiency. Some could do a bit better, perhaps an airside economiser or two, some hot or cold aisle containment, or maybe some DC power. ...
It’s always good to know that the world is changing and, hopefully, improving. So it was with interest that I heard that Kathrin Winkler – EMC’s Chief Sustainability Officer – participated earlier today at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. ...
A while back, I met Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC. She was delivering a briefing about EMC’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to a group of industry analysts. Most CSR briefings are as dull as ditchwater and devoid of anything remotely innovative or challenging. CSR is, for some, ...
Data Centre design is an evolutionary process and we can see the first signs of significant change in the latest sites. Co-generation, liquid cooling, cloud computing, high density are all likely to feature in the 2020 Data Centre. How are you placed with your existing Data Centre ...
SunGard, though most commonly recognized as a leader in disaster recovery planning and services, also boasts a highly skilled consulting services organization. Its storage services group has developed a five step program that can help reduce storage OPEX and CAPEX and drive tighter alignment with the business. Anyone trying ...
At first, desktop virtualization may seem like an abstract concept, but when you actually see the many ways it can improve how we deploy, manage, secure, and maintain our desktop operating environments, the benefits become hard to ignore. ESG finds that businesses with new desktop virtualization deployments struggle with ROI ...
A poll conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Steve O’Donnell indicates that application vendor support, mitigating the risk of not getting support because of the hypervisor your virtual server is running on, is one of the leading reasons that multiple hypervisors are utilized.
via Why Should Every IT Department Consider Multiple ...
Last week, I participated in a webinar on virtualization along with Extreme Networks and Microsoft. During the session, 113 audience members were asked two polling questions. Here are the questions and the results:
1. In your opinion, which of the following factors is holding your organization back from ...
Earlier this year, I reported that 49% of mid-sized (i.e., less than 1,000 employees) and enterprise organizations (i.e., greater than 1,000 employees) will increase network hardware spending in 2010. Well I went back and cut the ESG 2010 IT Spending Data for fun this week and here ...
If you have been following the storage business for a while, you will have noticed a few changes:
Introduction of Flash Memory components as Solid State Disks
Serial ATA (SATA) disks becoming popular and growing in capacity (2TB soon)
There are lots of other disk technologies around like Fibre Channel and ...
