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Monthly Archives: April 2012
“Zombies” in the Data Center?
Do you have “zombies” in your data center asks Thor Olavsrud of CIO. Mr Olavsrud points out that despite leveraging server virtualization and cloud computing, an enterprise that has some of its own servers and switches operating may have equipment … Continue reading
Is Your Software Exiting with Employees?
With the growing consumerization of IT and “BYOD”, bring your own device, IT is facing some interesting dilemas. Curt Finch in his CIO blog “Succeeding in Consumerization of IT” provides some insight into the growing prevalence of personal laptops in … Continue reading
Cloudy Wednesday: PaaS-abilities
A “world if PaaS-ibilities” reports Christine Burns for Network World. Despite Platform as a Service (PaaS) remaining a bit fragmented market-wise, analyst say clear go-to options should emerge in the coming years. In 2012, analysts predict the world-wide cloud computing … Continue reading
Common Virtualization Myths
During our last blog post on April 20th, we started to discuss Nathanael Iversen’s outline for Network World of some of the biggest myths that hinder IT from maximizing performance on their virtualization deployments. Below we take a further look … Continue reading
Virtualization Myths and Realities
Performance management has become a key element in maximizing virtualization initiatives writes Nathanael Iversen for Network World. Mr. Iversen outlines some of the biggest myths that can hinder IT from maximizing performance on their virtualization deployments. Myth: VI and desktop … Continue reading
Cloudy Wednesday: IaaS Making Slow Headway
Christine Burns reports for Network World that in a recent survey 27% of enterprises surveyed use public cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) which is up 10% from a similar survey in 2011. On the other hand, 28% of … Continue reading
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Cooling the Data Center with “Thermal Batteries”
With spring here and the summer season with its heat fast approaching and thoughts turning to data center cooling, here is an interesting look at data center cooling from Google. Caleb Garling of Wired Enterprise reports, Google will cool its … Continue reading
PC Today: Salvage Your Storage
Evolving Solutions Storage Architect, Doug Babcock, was recently interviewed in a PC Today article titled Salvage Your Storage. Solving the problem of dwindling data storage space is growing into a tricky science for businesses of all sizes. One of the … Continue reading
Rebuilding IT for Cloud Computing
IT and CIOs have plenty of experience ushering new technology, but as Bernard Golden reports for CIO, cloud computing is the first technology shift that implements automation thus removing human intervention from the equation. This fundamental change requires a radical … Continue reading
Cloud Services Face Taxing Dilemma
The rise in e-commerce and cloud computing services has eroded a State’s traditional forms of tax collections in recent years. Brandon Butler of Network World reports that more and more states are issuing rulings and investigating how they can ensure … Continue reading
