Consider how Cloud Computing’s unique characteristics will change how you do architecture Today is a wonderful time for anyone interested in Cloud Computing to be working with the US government. On the one hand, the government considers Cloud to be…
Data center building, power, and cooling disciplines are not IT disciplines. Your expertise on applications, software architecture, network, server and storage design is not expertise on building Rated-4 data centers with 99.995% uptime. Likewise, experts on mission critical facilities like…
Do you need a hardened data center? If you are trying to protect your data center’s ability to withstand natural or man-made disasters and acts of terrorism, then the answer is yes. The term “hardened data center” described computer room…
Do your worst-behaved applications define your data center requirements? In Part 1, I talked about the most important applications in your business, also know as your mission critical applications. I covered reasons that many of these mission critical applications are…
Do your worst-behaved applications define your data center requirements? If so, you’re not alone. Your most important applications are often the hardest applications for IT to support and to keep running. These mission-critical applications and their behaviors greatly influence design…
