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.
Latest Posts
Cisco & Dell acquisitions bring datacenter automation center stage
Automation is key to delivering on-demand datacenter and cloud services
The Green Grid reaches beyond the datacenter
Reusing energy beyond the datacenter can make for an easily understandable benefit beyond IT
Asetek's hot on datacenter cooling
Well-known desktop CPU cooling vendor Asetek takes it's cooling to the energy efficient datacenter
Fujitsu gets a jump on the competition
With years of experience meeting the regulatory demands of Japan, Fujitsu is ready to take on the rest of the world.
NetApp’s new datacenter: 54 weeks from contract to reality
Ground up design and implementation of the latest in datacenter techhnology
Cisco expands UCS management to the cloud
Cisco finally expands the reach of their node management tools into the enterprise-wide cloud
Despite unexpected tidal surge, NJ datacenters stay up and running
You should probably practice what you preach...
Big Data: More than just analytics
Some say that Big Data is just Analytics repackaged, but there is a difference. It is especially important to understand the distinction because data driven companies have been found to outperform those who are not.
Cisco predicts that by 2016 datacenter traffic will reach 6.6 zettabytes
Cloud traffic will grow at incredible rate, but business use will remain low