Each month, Business Solutions reports news on business in the channel. This month in managed services, backup and recovery, and networking news, StrandVision Digital Signage introduces health/wellness animated templates, Unitrends announces Release 8, and snom adds an expansion module. Also, Tech Data offers Cisco Network Security Solutions and enhances its suite of marketing services.
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of December 12th
For your weekend reading, we present a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.
Rise of Direct Liquid Cooling in Data Centers Likely Inevitable – The industry has seen major advances in the efficiency of air cooling, while liquid cooling has been largely confined to specialized computing niches.
Renewable Energy and the Colocation Provider
Hyper-scale data center operators like Google, Amazon Web Services, and Apple have been very public about their renewable energy usage and commitments. It’s good for the environment and it makes people look upon them favorably. However, these operators contribute only a small fraction (think around 5 percent) of overall data center energy usage. The multitenant market is driving data center growth, but what is their role in terms of renewable energy?
Zerto Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Software for Virtualized Data Centers and Cloud Environments
Zerto provides enterprise-class disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) software specifically for virtualized data centers and cloud environments. Zerto’s award winning solution provides enterprises with data replication & recovery designed specifically for virtualized infrastructure and the cloud.
The Practicality of Floating Data Centers
Could floating data centers help keep data center infrastructures cool using the water available from the seas below? It’s a whacky thought that’s starting to get some serious consideration from some of the world’s top data center designers. It’s no secret that the Earth is covered by 75% water and water is commonly used to cool equipment in data centers. Given these facts, it became clear that bringing the data center closer to the water could have some serious advantages for data center designers looking to conserve energy. Do the disadvantages outweigh the advantages of using a floating data center?
Reducing Energy Consumption and Cost in the Data Center
It is probably safe to say that most data center managers are dealing with the challenge of increasing data growth and limited IT resources and budgets. With “save everything forever” strategies becoming more prevalent for many organizations, the strain on IT resources will only get worse over time.
Seeing is Believing: Learn How DCIM Improves Data Center Visibility
Take a moment and examine the modern IT and corporate landscape. We have a lot more devices, many more applications, and a truly consumerized user. All of this has resulted in a boom in both data and data center utilization. Why? Because the data center is the home to all of these modern technologies.
10 Cool Hybrid On-Prem/Cloud Data Protection Solutions For SMBs
Integrated hybrid data protection solutions, which include an on-premise backup and recovery appliance connected to a cloud storage platform, offer a way for traditional solution providers and managed services providers to keep SMBs safe from disasters.
Magic Quadrant for Data Center Infrastructure Management Tools (DCIM)
Your data center has become a critical component of your business. So much so that many business initiatives are actually planned around the capabilities of IT.
The emergence of cloud, IT consumerization, and a lot more data has forced the data center to evolve and support new demands.
The Cloud in 2014 and Beyond
As we wrap up 2014, it’s time we took a look at some of the biggest cloud technologies that made an impact over the course of the year and thought about cloud predictions for 2015. Listed here are many of the technologies that were big this year.
PTS Data Center Solutions, Inc. 