What are the events that trigger significant change in the data center? I talk to organizations every day who are planning changes to their enterprise data center facilities. Here are a few of the common business events that cause change…
Businesses are running more datacentre applications with fewer staff and less budget, Symantec’s latest research has found. A study of 1,600 companies conducted by Applied Research for Symantec found that 41% of businesses have more than 1,000 applications in their…
What is your cost of downtime? If it is high, you may be able to control those costs by employing outsource data center facilities. Data center facilities downtime events (power, cooling, physical security, and fire suppression) are some of the…
This is a common question I receive: How much power should I provision for my cabinets? This can be a very complex question depending upon your goals for today and plans for the future. At the top end, you might…
There is a growing gap between memory bandwidth and CPU power and this growing gap makes low power servers both more practical and more efficient than current designs. Per-socket processor performance continues to increase much more rapidly than memory bandwidth…
