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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery » Data.

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Finally, the concept works at the hypervisor level, which allows the company to better and more fully utilize its hardware. For example, software-defined networking has been coined as an approach in which networking control is decoupled from hardware and controlled by a software application. It must be hardware agnostic.

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Five Key Trends in DCIM » Data Center Knowledge

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For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. Energy Efficiency Guide.

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5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ » Data Center Knowledge

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See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition.

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Tower of Babel Invades the Data Center & NOC » Data Center.

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KVM Hardware Overcomes Connectivity Challenges, but Introduces Others. When early versions of keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) switches were introduced almost 30 years ago (initially supporting only keyboard and display functions), these hardware solutions simplified connections to managed infrastructure assets.

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Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics

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With multi-core processors and IO-hungry applications in today’s enterprise and web-scale organizations, the performance bottleneck has moved from the server to storage. Another big driver of cost in the enterprise and web-scale environments is power. See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating.

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Are You Up in the Air with Cloud Computing Benefits? » Data Center.

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Alan McMahon works for Dell in enterprise solution design, across a range for products from servers, storage to virtualization, and is based in Ireland. These resources are shared with many users, and the hardware the cloud computing company provides is built on a system that makes the most efficient use of it. Energy Efficiency Guide.