Green IT: The fastest transition from concept to commodity ever
Green IT isn't gone; it's just everywhere you look.
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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HP ExpertONE Targets Cisco Training with New Certifications
HP looks to build networking certification programs based on open standards. At least open standards, the HP way.
100 datacenters here, 100 datacenters there, 1000 datacenters where?
With a short term project requiring a major federal datacenter consolidation effort, the discovery that there were twice as many datacenters involved gives a whole new meaning to "close enough for government work."
What's your biggest concern about changing your datacenter responsibilities?
Where is your data, who's responsible for it being there, and where did that application come from? IT faces many challenges with easily available cloud services.
Can IT as a Service replace the datacenter?
Has your business figured out that IT can be a competitive advantage? Or does VMware have it right, and business units see IT only as an expense?
AVIcode acquisition will help Microsoft in the datacenter and cloud
Microsoft's addition of end-to-end service and application management will make Systems Center a more effective tool in the cloud and datacenter
Off-roading your datacenter
The concept of the micro-modular datacenter takes a narrowly focused approach to the containerized datacenter market.
Green moves to the datacenter network silicon level
Low-level energy savings across your corporate networks becomes a hardware possibility with the newly ratified IEEE standard.
Dell's VIS a good long-term datacenter play
Dell's vision of looking to the future while preserving the past may be the best strategy for IT looking towards the cloud and next generation business computing.
HP's datacenters go Cisco free
HP stands by their promise to rid themselves of the shackles of Cisco. But is this anything beyond a marketing statement?