Data Center Blog

The stage is now set for the next evolution of virtualization but are you, your network, and your CFO ready for network virtualization? IBM, Nicira, HP, Cisco among other are banking that you are.

The rise of solid state storage solutions and PCIe-based NAND storage appliances are giving SANs a run for their money as new agile companies vie for the high ground.

With cloud and virtualization leading the redesign of data center around the world, it's a question that has been circulating for some time now: Does architecture matter anymore?

WAN optimization is moving from per-need to must-have as cloud infrastructures, offerings, services and Big Data become the norm in most data centers.

Open standards architectures are the best approach as enterprises crow-bar their infrastructures out of the proprietary Dark Ages and embrace a rapidly changing and connected world.

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There's little doubt that enterprises across the board have expressed a strong commitment to adopting energy efficiency as a guiding force behind future data center developments. Economic reasons alone have forced many organizations to take a hard look at the true cost of their information environments.

The cloud may be the most advanced information architecture to date, but in the end its value can only be determined by its ability to handle data workloads.

Much of the talk surrounding power efficiency and energy conservation in the data center focuses on the big things: virtualization, consolidation, alternative heating and cooling.

Key criteria that can be used as a benchmark when choosing a remote access solution.

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) has drawn a lot of industry buzz lately as the next step in the greening of the enterprise.

Business uses for your Apple iPad that your boss will approve of.

Virtualization has proven to be a lot more unpredictable than most people realized at the outset.

Solid-state storage technology hit the enterprise like a freight train two years ago, providing a robust, albeit expensive, solution for high-speed/high-availability applications like Web serving and transaction processing.

SSDs are unquestionably faster and more energy efficient than traditional hard drives. But are they more trustworthy?

They say necessity breeds invention. If so, it's small wonder that so many energy efficiency and power management solutions are hitting the enterprise channel right now.

One of the lesser-discussed aspects of the cloud is its impact on middleware. With many organizations still actively pursuing application integration strategies, middleware stacks have grown increasingly complex as they struggle to keep up with a growing cadre of messaging formats.

Amazon has issued a detailed summary about the events that occurred with its Dublin data center outage.

Sprint plans to begin offering cloud services before the end of the year.

Despite the best intentions of reducing the federal data center footprint and freeing up dollars in reduced energy costs, the ambitious goal will be tough to meet, according to new research. 

New research suggests that electricity consumption by data centers grew slower from 2005 to 2010 than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency predicted in a 2007 report.

Facebook has decided to expand its first wholly owned data center.

The cloud in particular is certain to drive a range of virtual networking techniques as enterprises struggle to maintain control of increasingly distributed and chaotic data environments. As resources, infrastructure, applications and just about everything else migrate onto the cloud, it's only natural that the tools needed to manage connectivity should as well. 

The General Services Administration has successfully migrated its 17,000 employee email users from Lotus Notes to a professional version of Gmail packaged in Google Apps for Government.

Microsoft announced a set of tools and services built around the Azure platform that will allow researchers to analyze extremely large data sets.

Enterprises contemplating building out their IT infrastructure for virtual and cloud operations seem to have three options.

Learn how to meet the most pressing challenges administrators face in ensuring optimal server performance.

The federal government plans to shut down 40 percent (800) of its data centers over the next four years. The shuttering of facilities is expected to free up billions of dollars a year and acres of real estate.