Hardly a day goes by in my travels and discourses that I don’t encounter an IT pro new to an organization that discovers they’ve inherited some server, application, service, etc. that doesn’t make sense in its current implementation.
I’ve attended every single Symposium, including the very first one, where I met Uptime Institute’s late founder, Mr. Ken Brill at the Orlando Hyatt Airport nearly a decade ago.
When operating a data center, enterprises frequently look at the closely coupled costs of operating the facility — power, maintenance contracts, and sometimes staffing.
In honor of Earth Day, an overview of energy efficiency innovations in data centers.
April 22, 2014
On the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, the World Wide Web existed only in research labs, “texting” was something you wrote in a notebook and the closest thing to a data center was the public library.
With an increasing demand for faster data center deployment and facility flexibility, containerized data centers are a great option for those who need service now with the added benefit of maximum expandability later.
With the impending death of Windows XP this month and Windows Server 2003 next year, it begs the question: When is it time to start planning the retirement of any remaining x86 hardware, as well as any virtual machines still running 32-bit Windows?
As our world becomes ever more data centric, the data center and the energy it uses seems to become a focal point of criticism for groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, as well as many others.