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Cheap Ways To Connect Data Centers

The Accidental Successful CIO

Data centers are only valuable if they can share data Image Credit: Sean Ellis. As the person with the CIO job at your company, you have the added responsibility of maintaining your company’s data centers. Just exactly how are you going to ensure that your data centers can talk to each other?

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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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Solarflare: Revolutionizing the way enterprises scale, manage and secure data centers

CTOvision

Solarflare is a leading provider of application-intelligent networking I/O software and hardware that facilitate the acceleration, monitoring and security of network data. They are a top player in infrastructure including the critically important Data Center so we track them in our Leading Infrastructure Companies category.

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Fed Forum 2013 Videos and Briefings Posted

CTOvision

You can see video and download slides from all the sessions. Anthony spelled out how much money can be saved in hardware, software and people by modernization. Watch this short video but don’t stop there. Fortunately much of the content from these sessions has been captured. Find his presentation here.

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How Edge Data Center Providers are Changing the Internet’s Geography

Data Center Knowledge

As online video replaces cable TV and cloud services replace software licenses and hardware boxes, the makeup of the internet changes too Read More.

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Netflix Closed Their Last Data Center – Should You Do The Same?

The Accidental Successful CIO

The company sent an email out that announced that in a month they planned on shutting down their very last operational data center. Every month Netflix attempts to both sign up additional customers for their DVD delivery and, more recently, their video streaming service. How Netflix Moved To The Cloud. How did they do it?

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

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