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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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What’s enabled Fresenius to transform IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Plus, there was the company’s own IT landscape with a self-operated data center in the basement at the headquarters in Bad Homburg, just north of Frankfurt. Shutting down the company’s data center and moving large parts of it to the cloud was a main priority, which included the SAP landscape that was fragmented into 130 systems.

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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

CIO Business Intelligence

Of course, his predecessor knew that too, and so the consolidation of the two SAP systems was under discussion for almost a decade by the time Grayling finally convinced his fellow executives that the cost of consolidation would be less than continuing with separate systems. “It Another challenge was the data migration.

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PGA of America swings for the public cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. moved all the data from its headquarters and its three data centers in Charlotte, Louisville, and Atlanta to Amazon Web Services and a handful of SaaS providers in 2019.

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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

CIO Business Intelligence

Also during the pandemic, we completely restructured and created every IT element the company needed: new ERP, purchasing systems, hotel management systems, and HR systems, for example. We were clear that IT — both from the point of view of applications and infrastructure — security, and data, were in the company’s DNA.

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Fountainhead: Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. Back then I started with Cassatt, one of the first companies trying to automate infrastructure components in the data center. Big Data. (6).

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Disruption Doesn’t Make an Appointment. A Guide for Handling the Unwelcome Knock.

CIO Business Intelligence

Climate, control blackouts, political occasions, and of course, new to the list, pandemics. It’s not the case anymore that the data center is the only consideration to be addressed immediately. Here are some practical immediate responses. Business disturbances can affect organizations of any size in any area.