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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The other side of the cost/benefit equation — what the software will cost the organization, and not just sticker price — may not be as captivating when it comes to achieving approval for a software purchase, but it’s just as vital in determining the expected return on any enterprise software investment.

Software 131

Software Software Enterprise Enterprise 131

Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

Not all High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) is solved by VM technology. But hardware, I/O, storage and network have to be provisioned too. Energy efficiency and dynamic infrastructures. Enterprise Efficiency. Enterprise Efficiency. Implicitly assumed in the market is that VMs are the panacea.

Data Center 100

Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution. Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution. Riverbed (RVBD) has introduced a new release of its Granite product family, delivering an enterprise-class solution for server and data consolidation. Energy Efficiency Guide. Convergence.

Enterprise 191

Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. Energy Efficiency Guide.

Cloud 250

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

Cloud startup CloudVelocity has raised $13 million to further its tools to provide seamless migration of enterprise applications between data centers and cloud platforms, and has released its One Hybrid Cloud software to move workloads to Amazon Web Services, the company said today. Image: CloudVelocity).

Tools 205

Tools Data Center Disaster Recovery Cloud 205

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Facebook’s data center energy use grew 33 percent in 2012, as the company installed tens of thousands of servers in its new company-built data centers. Facebook has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its ultra-efficient facilities in both sites, which can slash the energy bill for its vast armada of servers.

Data Center 262

Data Center Energy Data Report 262

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise – and the Competition. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise – and the Competition. The latest price drops are for dedicated instances, which are different from regular EC2 instances in that they run on single-tenant hardware. AWS wants to win over the enterprise.

Enterprise 207

Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 207

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration - Following your initial Emergency Response Plan items, you should prioritize your Home Site Restoration, writes Michelle Ziperstein of Cervalis. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide. Convergence.

Data Center 232

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 232

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Chipmaker ARM is using its headquarters campus to demonstrate how its low-power chip technology can slash energy costs for the automated office environments of the future. ARM believes the project will help it save money by reducing energy usage. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Intellisense.io

Internet 200

Internet Data Center Data Energy 200

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

But the LoPoCo team is being cagey about exactly how it is providing those energy savings. LoPoCo says it is using Intel Xeon “brawny core” chips and standard form factors, and gaining energy savings through its hardware design. ”It took a huge pile of rejected hardware to get to this point.

Data Center 232

Data Center Data Intel Disaster Recovery 232

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company has been working with HP to build its servers, but with its latest hardware refresh (known as G4) has opted for customized servers built by Quanta , a Taiwanese company that has built servers for Facebook and Rackspace. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide.

Data Center 208

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 208

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced Virtual Gateway, a cross-platform keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) software development kit (SDK) that aides solution providers offer enhanced capabilities for diagnosing and troubleshooting datacenter hardware. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 192

Data Center Intel Tools Development 192

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Internap will host TalentWise from its Dallas data center with its Santa Clara data center used as a disaster recovery site. To address these demands, we needed our platform to reside on dedicated hardware managed by a secure, compliant, best-of-breed provider. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition.

Data Center 179

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 179

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

A “catastrophic failure” typically refers to a total failure of a system, which leaves little or no option for recovery. The description of the Oregon outage suggests a hardware failure for a storage unit. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide. Convergence.

Storage 221

Storage Data Center Data Disaster Recovery 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Equinix has become the latest provider to test drive the use of fuel cells, installing a 100-kilowatt system to generate energy for its FR4 data center in Frankfurt, Germany, the company said. N2telligence is based in Wismar, Germany and specializes in fire protection systems for sustainable energy management. Energy Efficiency Guide.

Data Center 216

Data Center Data Energy Disaster Recovery 216

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 276

Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

This purpose-built data center will serve their enterprise IT and data center needs and give them access to Chaska’s robust power and fiber infrastructure.” And, each will provide disaster recovery office space, redundant private telco rooms and 10,000 square feet of raised floor in a Private Data Hall. Featured Cloud Articles.

Data Center 200

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 200

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide. Disaster Recovery. Featured Cloud Articles.

Data Center 258

Data Center Google Data Disaster Recovery 258

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

“One thing we’ve learned from these customers is that dedicated hardware (whether bare metal or with virtualization) isn’t going away. In many cases, dedicated hardware will play a key role.”. RELATED POSTS: Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise – and the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide.

Cloud 198

Cloud Data Center Disaster Recovery CTO 198

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Colt has the largest enterprise-class cloud footprint in Europe, with 20 European data centers in 10 countries. “Guaranteed performance coupled with 24×7 service level availability make Colt’s new shared storage services the enterprise grade that our customers expect. . The SolidFire rollout will occur in two phases.

Storage 195

Storage Cloud Data Data Center 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

DataStax raises $45 million to expand its product development and channel growth, Cloudera adds an Apache security module for Hadoop, and Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management for Hadoop. ” Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management. DataStax raises $45 million.

Data Center 184

Data Center Data Big Data Enterprise 184

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

DreamWorks Animation utilized HP Enterprise Cloud Services to provide a robust, scalable, cloud-based infrastructure that offers the additional compute power needed to render the 10 CG films that are in production at any given time. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide.

HP 221

HP Data Center Data Film 221

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

“Feedback from enterprises indicates that a ‘well-connected’ data centre is critical to their businesses. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Energy Efficiency Guide.

Data Center 202

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 202

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide. Disaster Recovery. Featured Cloud Articles.

Data Center 199

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 199

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The acquisition will integrate the Cloudsmith engineering team and products into Puppet in a bid to accelerate enterprise adoption of IT automation. Puppet Labs plans to tightly integrate Cloudsmith’s products with its flagship Puppet Enterprise offering to boost customers’ ability to automate and manage complex infrastructures.

Data Center 192

Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise Enterprise 192

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

The Department of Veterans Affairs has terminated a $36 million contract with HP Enterprise services, initially announced last November. What kind of enterprise email system the VA is going to use is up in the air for now. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide.

Cloud 190

Cloud Data Center HP Disaster Recovery 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

The Midlands Data Center was given Energy Star Certification in 2012. In the past he’s covered all things Internet Infrastructure, including cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), mass market hosting, managed hosting, enterprise IT spending trends and M&A. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Convergence.

Data Center 176

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 176

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide. Disaster Recovery. Featured Cloud Articles.

Data Center 188

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 20, 2013

He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide. Disaster Recovery. Featured Cloud Articles.

Data Center 230

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Microsoft 230

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

” The 233,000 square foot COPT DC-6 data center opened its doors in 2010 as Power Loft, with a new design focused on energy efficiency. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Disaster Recovery.

Data Center 192

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 192

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 27, 2013

Equinix Testing Fuel Cell for Use in Fire Suppression – Equinix has become the latest provider to test drive the use of fuel cells, installing a 100-kilowatt system to generate energy for its FR4 data center in Frankfurt, Germany, the company said. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Silicon Valley.

Data Center 186

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Energy 186

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide. Disaster Recovery. Featured Cloud Articles.

Data Center 189

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 189

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Enterprises are taking their time as they contemplate hybrid cloud infrastructures, and that’s translating into a longer process for leasing colocation space. ” Equinix cited lengthening enterprise sales cycles as one of the reasons that it has adjusted its revenue guidance slightly lower for the balance of 2013.

Data Center 195

Data Center Cloud Data Architecture 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

This is a fully redundant, Tier IV datacenter facility constructed with environmentally friendly products and systems, utilizing the newest energy efficient technology and architectural design methodologies. The site won the Silicon Valley Power Energy Innovator Award for its energy efficient technologies and architecture.

Data Center 178

Data Center Internet Data Groups 178

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide. Disaster Recovery. Featured Cloud Articles.

Data Center 194

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 194

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Energy Efficiency Guide. Disaster Recovery. Featured Cloud Articles.

Data Center 190

Data Center Data Backup Storage 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

The facility has a 32MVA power connection, meaning the energy supply can scale right along as the data center grows. Colocation also provides these companies the ability to scale that isn’t found (at least not easily so) with building an enterprise data center. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition.

Data Center 177

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 177