Content delivery versus service delivery. The battle for datacenter spending.
What should the next focus of your datacenter projects be? Delivering content or delivering services?
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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ARM versus Atom in the datacenter; a glimpse of the future...
With low power consumption and high-processor densities, the future of the high-efficiency datacenter may lie with ARM and Atom, not with Xeon and Opteron.
Is Microsoft ARMing for the datacenter?
Could Microsoft be considering the ARM processor for their next-generation datacenters along with a new operating system?
IBM leverages their development tools in the cloud.
IBM's cloud strategy includes getting customers onboard before the customer even develops their applications.
Can price alone drive your networking buys?
Would you consider a "value-priced" chassis for your core networking needs?
Copper is dead; are you ready for the future?
Even faster Ethernet speeds means the demise of copper in the datacenter. Are you ready for it?
A hidden cost to cloud services; maintaining your IT edge.
What is the value, to your business, of the IT intellectual capitol that you could lose by outsourcing IT services?
The government just handed out $452 million for energy efficiency. Can you get a cut?
The Federal Government is starting to hand out money to make the country more energy effiicient. But will they be spending these funds effectively?
HP throws down the gauntlet; will Cisco respond?
HP is letting everyone know that they are pushing a Cisco-free world. Did you even know that you were under Cisco's thumb?