It’s a lot easier to move your infrastructure into the cloud than have to migrate everything back into a private data center. The idea is to make sure you deploy the right workloads and have the correct deployment methodology throughout the entire process.
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DCIM News from Data Center World
Data Center Infrastructure Management vendors continued the race to add features and functionality to their software with a number of announcements at last week’s Data Center World conference in Las Vegas. Companies added to what their solutions can do by both building new features themselves and integrating with partners.
Virtualization—Good Practices for SMBs by Matt Smith
Looking for a way to save money and make your business more efficient? Virtualization can help you with both of those goals. Here’s a look at some of the benefits and best practices:
Take Advantage of the IT You Already Own
Virtualization can help you get more out of the IT infrastructure you have right now. Instead of the standard one-to-one relationship between servers and applications, virtualization allows you to consolidate multiple server tasks onto one machine.
Data Center Security Lessons from Heartbleed and Target
Winston Saunders has worked at Intel for nearly two decades and currently works on making the data center more secure and efficient. Winston is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the University of Washington. You can find him online at “Winston on Energy” on Twitter
Understanding the World of Cloud Automation
The modern data center is getting a lot smarter. We’ve got better systems, more optimally controlled resources, and the end-user experience is continuously improving. But there’s a lot more intelligence being built into your cloud platform than ever before. The sheer number of new users and workloads accessing the cloud has forced data centers and various organizations to adopt new, powerful, methods to delivery rich content.
Could we have data centres as a commodity?
For those working in the fast moving world of cloud computing it is easy to take the view that the choice of data centre is irrelevant; that although it is an essential piece of the jigsaw, one data centre is just the same as another when compared to the complexities of differing IaaS and SaaS platforms. On this basis it is assumed that all the value in the IT chain will migrate to the cloud providers leaving data centres to earn meagre commodity margins.
Music of Data Centers
The only sounds the Internet makes on the end user side are those coming out of PC speakers or headphones – preprogrammed, prerecorded, contrived. While the boomy, echoey machine sounds of a factory making physical products is not hard to summon for anyone in their memory, your average iPhone user has no idea what the factory that produces their Facebook news feed sounds like (or that it has a sound).
View from the Cloud: Bringing Technologies Together
Preeti Nirwal is Product manager at Hostway Corporation.
Cloud computing remains one of the hottest trends in modern technology.
Analysts at IDC predict that global spending on public cloud services, just one sector of the cloud, will top $100 billion in 2017, growing five times as quickly as the IT industry as a whole.
PTS Data Center Solutions, Inc. 