Bloggers note: Indiana provided an incentive to businesses via Senate Bill 448. The bar, however is high. To quote the bill: The entity [must be] located in a facility or data center in Indiana that contains in the aggregate at…
Computerworld — Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms. Data Center Definitions and Solutions That means combining servers, storage and networks…
Building a data center cost model is an important step in managing your data center capital costs and ongoing operational costs. A data center cost model lets you understand how incremental growth impacts costs. A data center cost model allows…
Will a server consolidation project that cuts total servers by 50% through virtualization cut operating costs by that much? Not even close. That’s just one of the data center energy efficiency tips that hit the cutting room floor as my…
Blogger’s note: Baseline’s slideshow below revolves around difficulties with budgets and competent data center staffing. Many IT operations groups are trying to manage two complex lines of business: information technology operations mission critical facilities infrastructure. Many IT operations leaders have…
