End-to-end monitoring, through the datacenter to the cloud
Application and services monitoring needs to extend to anywhere the application or service goes. That means more than just technical hurdles to overcome.
Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter
David Chernicoff looks at technologies that impact data center users and operators, including server consolidation and virtualization, green IT, and the latest hardware advances.
David Chernicoff
With more than 20 years of published writings about technology, as well as industry stints as everything from a database developer to CTO, David Chernicoff has earned the term "veteran" in the technology world.
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Plug and play datacenters with virtualization and appliances
Appliance computing looks like a good fit for the virtualized datacenter
Microsoft works to keep Hypervisor competitive
The latest System Center VMM beta makes small, but significant advances in automating cloud services deployments.
Three new datacenter metrics for sustainability
GreenGrid.org continues their development of metrics to allow datacenter operators to more closely evaluate their operations and the potential and actual effects of changes to their datacenter infrastructures.
Don't stint on datacenter physical security
When was the last time you actually evaluted the physical security of your datacenters from a planned attack?
Microsoft and HP launch a series of datacenter appliances
Turnkey, scalable datacenter appliances offer building blocks for quick implementation and fast business reaction times.
HP wants to become the general contractor of the datacenter industry
HP's CFS division moves to become a one-stop datacenter shop
Juniper keeps the pressure on Cisco with new network fabric
Juniper networks rolls out the first of their single-layer network fabric products. Will their $100 million investment pay off?
Obama takes a leap of faith and trusts the government to the cloud
Given the US Government's track record in keeping data secure, what makes anyone think moving Federal IT operations to the cloud is a good idea?
IBM's workload optimization strategies a datacenter win
End-to-end single vendor hardware solutions offer advantages beyond a lack of finger-pointing