Suppose there are 4,000 servers in a data center for Company ABC. These servers may have been installed at different times, and not together, in the same month or week. A typical server has a maintenance cost of nearly $2,000…
Multiple data centers is a widely followed practice by most of today’s big IT enterprises. However, the concept of multiple data centers spread geographically and logically apart does have some serious issues, such as increased burden on resources, higher cost…
Your organization might have multiple data centers scattered all around the country. Some of them may be running out of cooling and powering needs, some are bringing high energy costs, and others are unable to expand due to limited or…
Did you know that businesses today store about 2.2 zettabytes of information, according to a recent report from Symantec? On an average, enterprises handle 100,000 terabytes of data, and it’s estimated that the figure shall grow by 67% over the…
Twitter blamed systems failures — not a crush of traffic around the Olympic games — for an outage last Thursday that saw people around the world experience problems accessing the micro blogging site for more than an hour. The San…
