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The Agile Data Center

Eric D. Brown

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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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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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

CTOvision

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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A Primary Goal of an Agile Data Center – Portability

Eric D. Brown

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. In that article, I wrote that having an agile data center means that organizations are capable of “delivering the right services at the right time in the right way to the right user.”.

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Disaster Recovery and the Agile Data Center

Eric D. Brown

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. In addition to preparing data and systems for disaster, the “how” of recovering from any disaster must be considered. How will data and systems be restored?

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An Agile Business Needs an Agile IT Group

Eric D. Brown

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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Complexity – The Killer of Agility?

Eric D. Brown

I’ve said a few times that the data center of today isn’t the data center of yesterday nor is it the data center of tomorrow. This complexity may just be a simple replacement of other types of complexity or it may be adding complexity to the data center. Complexity has always existed within the data center.

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