No new data center should be designed or built without some form of DCIM system as part of the base infrastructure system. While DCIM requires additional investment, it can ultimately lower the TCO by improving operational and energy efficiency, while
NEC Corp. unveiled its SDN Application Center, which includes SDN solutions built upon customers' chief network concerns. NEC will provide APIs to help organizations proactively and automatically manage, secure and optimize their networks through their SDN solutions.
The war-torn country of Syria effectively disappeared from the Internet Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple monitoring services.
April 26, 2013 -- Enterprise management software developer Software AG announced on Friday it has acquired platform as a service provider LongJump for an undisclosed amount.Keep on reading: Software AG Acquires Cloud PaaS Vendor LongJump
Cloud service providers need to move beyond traditional reliance on complex hardware redundancy schemes and instead focus on developing more intelligent software that can monitor, anticipate, and efficiently manage the failure of physical infrastructures, writes David Gautier of Microsoft. When...
Arista Networks announced the next phase of its software defined networking (SDN) offerings by integrating its EOS (Extensible Operating System) natively with OpenStack.
The modern data center faces challenges from dynamic technology lifecycles and a demanding business environment. Evolving from server closets to multi-million dollar facilities, the modern data center incorporates a number of innovations that contribute to its effective and efficient operation. Facility and IT infrastructure must be agile and keep pace with the business, while maintaining mission-critical distinction.
When considering public cloud options, it’s important to understand where there is a direct fit. This means that both key business stakeholders as well as IT executives will need to see the benefits of moving towards a public cloud “Infrastructure as a Service” environment.
Equinix is monitoring its worldwide footprint through the help of ScienceLogic. The global data center behemoth is leveraging ScienceLogic’s unified monitoring platform to increase productivity and improve IT operations
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Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, today announced that they have received the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001 certification standard for information security.
29, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of power conscious data centre campuses, today announced that they have received the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001 certification
Today’s data-on-demand environment is demanding more and more out of a corporate IT department. The latest trend in this phenomenon has become Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). However, beyond just bringing a personal device to a corporate setting, we are now experience both the consumerization and the incorporation of user devices.
Would you trust your sensitive corporate data in the hands of a stranger? Recent Amazon and Apple iCloud experiences tells us that cloud security across the board, needs to be enhanced, now, not later. Taking a look and understanding security strategies and responsibilities from both cloud providers and customers can help to prevent further failures.
Whether you know it or not, you’ve probably already experienced one of the next big things in IT.
Maybe you have one of the newer utility meters that automatically collect information on consumption and relay it back to the utility company. Or perhaps you’ve purchased a snack from a vending machine that’s wired to automatically send back inventory and sales information.
December 4, 2012 -- At a keynote during the Cloud Security Alliance’s 2012 Congress (CSA), a panel of security experts beat up on Verizon, as an ISP, as the conduit of malicious activity. The question that precipitated the attack was: what responsibility do infrastructure providers have in ensuring the security of the Internet, and how does that play into national security?Keep on reading: Cloud Security Alliance’s 2012 Congress – The Internet and National Security
Seven years after a law encouraging the use of power meters that can read data quickly and remotely, many Texans want out of the program, and some legislators are listening.
November 21, 2012 -- Data center provider Pomeroy announced on Wednesday it has acquired cloud monitoring and management tools provider BluePoint Data, doubling the size of Pomeroy's portfolio of cloud offerings.Keep on reading: Data Center Firm Pomeroy Acquires BluePoint Data Cloud Management Software
November 21, 2012 -- Data center provider Pomeroy announced on Wednesday it has acquired cloud monitoring and management tools provider BluePoint Data, doubling the size of Pomeroy's portfolio of cloud offerings.
A Facebook data centre engineer has built a monitoring tool called Claspin that uses heat maps to troubleshoot potential problems in data centres. The engineer, Sean Lynch, described in a blog posting how he and his fellow engineers need to ensure the health of the social networking giant’s cache systems by quickly identifying and fixing any potential problems with server, racks or clusters.
Here’s the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today’s briefing includes eight items. IMPACT Exhibition Management Co. has continued to reduce energy use to ISO 50001 standards for a second year at the IMPACT Arena, Exhibition and Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand. In June the average electricity usage at the 60,000-square-meter [...]
Organizations need continuous access to their network and computer infrastructures, and even a brief interruption to critical business processes can have devastating effects on revenue streams and customer confidence. By outsourcing data center monitoring to a third-party service provider, organizations can take preventative action before a problem occurs.
Domain registrar Go Daddy is experiencing a major domain name service (DNS) outage, which is impairing access to many customer web sites. Go Daddy manages 52 million domain names, meaning a DNS outage could affect millions of web sites across the Internet. The post Go Daddy Outage Causes Widespread...