Eric D. Brown

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I participated in the #DataCtrChat Twitter chat last week to join in on the conversation about the Agile Data Center. The #DataCtrChat is a great one to be a part of, especially if you’re interested in the data center. The question was: What differentiates an Agile Data Center from a traditional data center?

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 23, 2014

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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CTOvision

DECEMBER 11, 2013

All those factors together make the Symantec Government Symposium of 11 March 2014 one to pay attention to. The Symantec Government Symposium features 10 sessions where attendees will: Explore how agencies can develop a process for incident response prioritization and use actionable intelligence throughout the entire threat lifecycle.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 10, 2015

If you ask one hundred people (or companies) what it means to have an agile data center , you’ll most likely get a large number of diverse answers. It encapsulates the entire range of things that an agile data center can do for an organization.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 9, 2015

If there was one time that a data center and an IT group absolutely need to be agile, it would be the time immediately after a disaster strikes. To do this, the key driving factor for IT and disaster recovery must be agility. How effective (and agile) are your disaster recovery plans?

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 3, 2015

DataThe data center of tomorrow will look much differently than the data center of today. That particular sentence should not be that surprising to anyone who’s been in an organization that has internal data centers. This ‘different’ thinking has caused the data center to undergo drastic changes.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

If you ask any business leader whether they’d prefer that their organization be thought of as ‘slow moving’ or ‘agile’, most would respond with ‘agile’ as their preference. While everyone most likely knows what agility means, let me take as second to define the term and set the stage for the discussion. Is your business agile?

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