What should one look for when contemplating the leap to a 10GbE data center? Here are the five most important questions to ask before making the transition.
Published: Sep 10, 2014
This reports documents hands-on and testing of the NetApp Distributed Content Repository. The Distributed Content Repository was designed to extend object-based storage across geographies provide a repository for unstructured content that is effectively infinite, practically immortal, and highly intelligent.
Published: Dec 18, 2013
Carrier neutrality is a commonly used term in the data centre industry. The relevance and importance of what carrier neutrality means for your business is often not explicitly shared and can be overlooked.
This paper highlights six considerations you need to discuss with your data centre provider surrounding...
Published: Jul 01, 2015
The modern data center is no longer a singular location. Rather, new demands require the data center to be a geographically distributed network of resources. As new services, cloud components and users find their way into the data center model – there will be more reliance around the services that the data center...
Published: Aug 19, 2014
Regulating temperatures in the modern data center can be a challenging task. In this data center cooling survey, Data Center Knowledge set out to find out how those responsible for managing data center environments coped with cooling them. It quizzed people with managerial roles in modern data centers to determine their...
Published: Jun 09, 2014
When companies evaluate potential data centers and colocation service providers, they normally compare them using some kind of criteria or checklist. However, many such efforts fail to sufficiently evaluate the breadth and depth of detail necessary to make a well informed decision.
This white paper examines several...
Published: Jul 15, 2013
With Gartner suggesting colocation grew by 8% last year alone, many are turning to colocation providers to house their IT infrastructure. With so many players in this global market, it is important for decision makers to understand the key factors when deciding the best facility to suit their business needs.
This...
Published: Jul 01, 2015
Is your datacenter struggling to keep pace with growing dynamic business demands? Build a modern datacenter by incorporating advanced technologies and improved infrastructure for better performance, scalability and significantly reduced expenses.
Download this white paper to learn eight fundamental strategies that...
Published: May 02, 2013
Storage infrastructure performance monitoring and management is the key to business continuity and availability solutions. To ensure application performance, storage managers must manage the performance of the array and the SAN based on the array. HP Storage Essentials software delivers a solution for these scenarios....
Published: Jun 05, 2013
Oracle ERP systems are often the most critical IT applications an organization has. Any missteps in administration or hardware configuration can be very costly to a business. Given the complexity of the tasks they perform, the Oracle applications require the correct hardware configuration in addition to specialized expertise...
Published: Sep 04, 2014
The past two decades have seen dramatic shifts in data center design. As application complexity grew, server sprawl pushed out the walls of the data center, expanding both the physical square footage as well as consumption of the most expensive part of the data center—energy.
So the focus turned to high density...
Published: Apr 17, 2014
Ten years ago, IT was a lot simpler – especially when it came to backup and recovery. But now that recovery has less to do with tape backup and physical facilities and more to do with the cloud and virtualisation, IT needs to find a more adaptive approach to this critical process.
This infographic examines some...
Published: Mar 13, 2014
The following white paper examines the four major pressures: data location, energy management, and two others that are negatively affecting CIO data center strategies. Access now and learn how to address each one of these areas and ultimately, gain insight into beefing up your data center strategies.
Published: Jul 01, 2015
his free eBook examines operations and the most likely causes of outages in a data center along with organizational strategies that can eliminate or minimize the potential for unplanned downtime in a data center.
Published: Jan 09, 2014