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Data centers in space

CIO Business Intelligence

Imagine a world in which data centers were deployed in space. Using a satellite networking system, data would be collected from Earth, then sent to space for processing and storage. The system would use photonics and optical technology, dramatically cutting down on power consumption and boosting data transmission speeds.

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Data Center TCO Factors You Can’t Afford to Overlook

Information Week

(SPONSORED) As we adopt hybrid work environments for good, here's how storage leaders can improve data center success and longevity while lowering total cost of ownership.

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Private Data Center Trends for 2014 and Beyond

CTOvision

Today’s data centers are being built at the forefront of industry standards. Within the past five years, the way we construct data centers has changed dramatically. David Cappuccio, the Chief of Infrastructure Research at Gartner, told CIO that “Data centers will no longer be constrained by one specific site.

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Right-Sizing Data Center Resources

CTOvision

One of the perennial problems of data centers is monitoring server utilization to ensure right-sizing of resources. Having too few resources can lead to overprovisioning, which can cause downtime as virtual machines become starved for compute, memory, and storage. Nlyte: For Data Center Infrastructure Management (ctovision.com).

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The Era Of Flash Is Now

Forrester IT

Storage is a fundamental element of enterprise compute. Everyone’s data must go somewhere. Up until recently, mechanical spinning disk has been the default storage media for very large data needs. Flash media has steadily eaten away at the hard-disk footprint in the data center, however.

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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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PureStorage: The all-flash enterprise storage company

CTOvision

Pure Storage enables the broad deployment of flash in the data center. When compared to traditional disk-centric arrays, Pure Storage all-flash enterprise arrays are significantly faster and more efficient at a price point that is less than performance disk per gigabyte stored.

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