Data Center Virtualization: Cloud Computing Still a Work in Progress. The AFCOM association recently revealed the results of a survey of 436 data center sites that showed the following trends: Cyber terrorism is an increasing concern, mainframe deployment is declining,…
One of the areas IT departments are asked to cut back in is operational costs for their data centers. Down economy or not, IT managers have never had a blank check with which to meet an organization’s needs. As time…
Flexibility in power, cooling, floor space eliminate barriers associated with change in the data center. Outsource data center facilities eliminate these barriers to change, along with many data center compliance and certification problems. Hospital data centers may not be ready…
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.…
