Cloud computing providers focus on providing an efficient, scalable environment in which applications can be deployed and provide for their availability with load balancing services and health monitoring and elastic scalability. But it can’t assure availability of your network. The…
Virtualization technology essentially reshaped IT in the last decade, but we drank so deep and long at the fountain that we enter the new decade with something of a hangover, and lots of fuzzy questions about what we have wrought.…
As we are all aware, a business continuity plan is only effective if it accurately reflects the needs, technology and structure of the organization. But, more importantly, a business continuity plan can only be considered to be truly effective if…
Bloggers note: Indiana provided an incentive to businesses via Senate Bill 448. The bar, however is high. To quote the bill: The entity [must be] located in a facility or data center in Indiana that contains in the aggregate at…
Computerworld — Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms. Data Center Definitions and Solutions That means combining servers, storage and networks…
