Is the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric the best way to measure data center efficiency? I’m not the first one to ask that question, and I probably won’t be the last. However, it does seem that IT executives are growing…
We’re hearing more stories and seeing more companies move their infrastructure out of a virtual environment and back into a physical environment using high-reliability outsourced data centers. Why are these companies making the switch? Long-term costs. Virtual environments often charge…
Zero downtime data centers? Expensive, and often cost prohibitive. Read on about outages that affect Google. Everyone is susceptible to data center downtime. t’s been a rough couple of days for uptime at the world’s most popular sites. This morning…
More and more companies have concerns about data center certifications and data center compliance. One of the most common questions that companies ask us is whether we have a SAS 70 data center certification. For those of you who aren’t…
Thanks to x86 server virtualization and its follow-on technologies, the state-of-the-art enterprise data center looks vastly different than it did even a year ago. Network World — Thanks to x86 server virtualization and its follow-on technologies, the state-of-the-art enterprise data…
