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.
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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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?
Will there be a market for "green" in 2016?
Kermit was wrong. It's easy being green, or at least it should be in the future.
IBM's LEED awarded datacenter is the epitome of recycling
Recycling existing facilities can be the way to go for your new datacenters, but it's not the only piece of the puzzle that makes your new facility green.
How much data security is right for your datacenter?
Every vendor providing services to the datacenter seems to be providing their own form of data security. What does IT need to do to get control of the end-to-end security model?
Need some supercomputer power for your datacenter? Check the cloud.
Can cloud-based supercomputing be a business win for your company?
Cisco addresses virtualized datacenter security
Virtualized security management at the VM level might give Cisco enough leverage to drive their vision of the converged infrastructure to the big money customer.
HP's acquisition spree focuses on monitoring the datacenter and its applications.
HP keeps spending to bring the technology they need to grow their cloud business. But is it the right approach to take?
New ARM moves closer to the datacenter
High-performance, hardware virtualization, support for a terabyte of physical memory, multi-core, and low power. What's not to love?