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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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The Data Center of Tomorrow

Eric D. Brown

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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AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium 5-7 May 2015 at Baltimore Convention Center

CTOvision

Sponsors include a broad range of companies, such as IBM, Cisco, Intel, Leidos, BAE, Solarwinds, Symantec, NES, Informatica, and Teradata. DISA Embraces Joint Information Environment (virtual-strategy.com). DISA Tackling Hard Work And Making Tough Choices In Data Center Consolidation (ctovision.com).

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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.

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Building an Agile IT Group

Eric D. Brown

Like the data center in most organizations, IT groups have been undergoing a transformation over the last few years. Thankfully, CIO’s have had the good fortune that cloud computing and virtualization were available to help transform IT operations and the data center.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. We all know that large software and platform vendors (think: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Symantec, Citrix, CA, IBM, HP etc.) Big Data. (6). Virtualization. (31).