Navigating the IT Sea Change
As IT silos break down, dealing with the technology is the easy part. The most difficult aspect is dealing with the sea change in data center culture. Now, instead of supporting a business unit, the...
View Article2013 Trends Raise the Data Center Stakes
Last year’s differentiators are today’s table stakes. In the coming environment, agility beats costs and power trumps space. Data is becoming workflow-centric. Mobility is ubiquitous, and...
View ArticleSuccessfully Deploying Virtual Desktops
Users may complain about slow boot up times on their desktops, but it isn’t exactly a matter of life and death…except when it is a matter of life and death. Two years ago, 600 staff at Seattle...
View ArticleStorage Struggles to Keep Pace with Data Growth
We live in a data-centric world. In 2010, we surpassed the zettabyte barrier, producing over a trillion GB of information in one year. According to the EMC/IDC Digital Universe study, the amount of...
View ArticleCIO Survey Reveals Average Downtime Costs $1.6 Million
Baar, Switzerland—Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, today announced the results of its annual...
View ArticleIs There a DR in the House?
With IT being the lifeblood of an organization, keeping the organization healthy requires having a disaster recovery (DR) plan in place, drilled and tested. If the data and systems are lost, there go...
View ArticleWANs on the Brink
For many organizations such as banks, insurance companies and retail stores, the branch office is the engine of the business and requires an uninterrupted flow of data and applications to operate...
View ArticleBacking up Virtual Machines
Server hardware seems to be going in two directions. On one hand there is the proliferation of appliances designed for a single purpose such as backup, big data, cloud computing or search. On the other...
View ArticleCase Study: Citigroup, From Consolidation to Innovation
Data center consolidations have occurred frequently over the past few years, but organizations often took breaks after their efforts. Not Citigroup, however. It took a holistic view when consolidating...
View ArticleTrending 2015: Infrastructure Software Virtualization
Infrastructure software virtualization is likely to be the next big thing in data centers. “How 2006!” you may say, but despite widespread server virtualization and talk of software defined data...
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