The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) publishes codes and standards for the fire and rescue industry. Data centers, being susceptible to fire, would do well to adopt the NFPA Standard 75, which is “Fire Protection for Electronic Data Processing Equipment.” NFPA…
The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is an attempt by the US government to protect its assets and information from cyber threats. It establishes a comprehensive framework of security best practices that entities dealing with the government have to…
In 2012, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov won the Nobel Prize in physics for their research on Graphene. The possibilities that Graphene and its applications can bring into the new generation are tremendous. Graphene is a graphite based material that is…
The data center ecosystem is becoming more complex and diverse in this generation. It is common to have data centers with heterogeneous and dynamic systems based out of public and private clouds. Multi-hypervisor architectures and converged systems that integrate servers,…
Ethernet fabric architected networks are the new way to go for modern data centers. The conventional STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) designed networks have a number of limitations and are impractical to use in today’s age of virtualization and cloud computing.…
