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…
This vendor-written opinion has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. The powerful storms that recently hit the mid-Atlantic region caused electrical outages that in turn disrupted…
The faltering economy in 2010 and 2011, the increasing demand for IT as a service, and the incredible pressure to keep costs down has lead to these overarching trends in data centers: Consolidated data centers The concept of multiple data…
Optimization in a data center context refers to carving out cost effective ways to reduce the operational budget needs. The demand in data centers for supporting mobility, on-demand services, virtualization, scalability, flexibility to adapt to rapidly changing business operations, power reduction…
Since in-house data centers are driving higher capital investments and an ever-growing power bill, CFOs and financial executives are monitoring data center strategies even more closely. The idea is to ensure that sensible decisions are taken around a company’s data center activities and…
