"BoB" vs. "STtC": Winner takes the datacenter
Single vendor versus best of breed. Not a new battle, but one that is certainly making waves
David Chernicoff looks at technologies that impact data center users and operators, including server consolidation and virtualization, green IT, and the latest hardware advances.
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.
Single vendor versus best of breed. Not a new battle, but one that is certainly making waves
Green IT isn't gone; it's just everywhere you look.
HP looks to build networking certification programs based on open standards. At least open standards, the HP way.
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."
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.
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?
Microsoft's addition of end-to-end service and application management will make Systems Center a more effective tool in the cloud and datacenter
The concept of the micro-modular datacenter takes a narrowly focused approach to the containerized datacenter market.
Low-level energy savings across your corporate networks becomes a hardware possibility with the newly ratified IEEE standard.
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.