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Building the Agile Data Center

Eric D. Brown

T he modern data center is a complex environment with many different systems and many different objectives. The data center exists to provide an organization with the networking, storage, processing and connectivity features needed to operate in the fast paced, data-driven world we live in today.

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10 reasons to keep that data center running

CIO Business Intelligence

There are many practical reasons driving this movement away from the data center as a hallmark of information technology. But for all the undeniable reasons driving the transition to the cloud, there are a few arguments that don’t fit the narrative, a few rationales for bucking the trend and keeping your own data center running.

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ODC-Noord: The Netherland’s northernmost government data center is committed to a zero carbon future

CIO Business Intelligence

One of four government data centers in the Netherlands, Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), the northernmost facility of its kind in The Netherlands, is located in the picturesque city of Groningen. The migration to software-defined data centers was an important step in the right direction, but it’s just the beginning.

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A company wants to build a massive solar project in Montana — of course it’s for crypto

The Verge

While the project would theoretically allow Atlas’ mining and other data center operations to run on renewable power, there are arguments that green energy doesn’t actually make crypto itself green.

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Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) vs. Private Cloud

Virtualized Greek

He mentioned how organizations are moving away from the private cloud as the mechanism for transformation and moving toward the software-defined data center (SDDC). It’s an abstraction of the data center’s infrastructure. Software-defined dependency on the hardware layer. An example of this is storage.

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Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) vs. Private Cloud

Virtualized Greek

He mentioned how organizations are moving away from the private cloud as the mechanism for transformation and moving toward the software-defined data center (SDDC). It’s an abstraction of the data center’s infrastructure. Software-defined dependency on the hardware layer. An example of this is storage.

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Four Cloud Computing Myths That Need To Die

CTOvision

My In-House Data Center Is More Secure. A third-party has control over the hardware and the network. That’s true, but it doesn’t make your in-house data center more secure than the cloud. Of course, the truth of my last statement depends on how well a company manages its cloud deployment.

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