Articles from Product Design and Development

Modern data centers are complex beasts; with a variety of appliances running across a multitude of hardware configurations and physical layouts, they are the product of years of expansion and growth. One of the first things I ask customers is what management tools they are using. There's always a laundry list, some open-source (like Nagios) and some from large software vendors (like IBM Tivoli). These IT management tools closely watch over systems, storage, networking, and applications -- four of the primary assets in a data center. (Read Full Article)