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Coming up on a wave of data center refreshes, virtualizing clustered machines across a commodity server environment is taking hold as a new way of...
Feb 23, 2005
IT folks at a Canadian media company thought they were testing virtualization software as a way to run a tighter ship...
Apr 18, 2006
then. But how much do you know about data center virtualization? Take the following quiz and find out.

Do you know the benefits of data center virtualization for your...

Nov 11, 2008
he covers include servers, data center automation and data center design. His areas of expertise include technical architecture planning, scale-out...
Apr 15, 2009
don't pick up the chatter, leaving the data center vulnerable to all kinds of bad stuff, from malware to compliance risks. And when VMs migrate from one server to another -- a...
Dec 23, 2008
cloud is a means of centralizing data center resources and delivering them on the fly as business demands change and IT attempts to become a service delivery unit...
Mar 24, 2009

Virtual security tools fill gap in virtual data center (SearchCIO.com)
Have the benefits of data center virtualization -- streamlined infrastructure, costs savings -- blinded...

Apr 2, 2009
If you haven't run smack into a data center energy crisis yet, just wait. Find out what's causing this crisis, how it will affect you, what the Environmental...
Nov 1, 2007
since the data resides in the data center and not the client. It's easier for IT to send out patches and updates and perform backups from a central location, and end...
Jan 28, 2009
to break ground on what it says is the data center of the future: a model of green efficiency, featuring virtualized servers and a disaster recovery plan that -- truth be...
Jun 22, 2010
as possible. But what about the green data center of the future? What strategies are in play now to move the data center beyond green?

Analysts agree that there will be no...

technologies.

"We need to keep the data center running as efficiently as possible because soon enough, power may get expensive enough to affect operations," said...

Nov 7, 2007
from the desktop to the data center to eliminate some of the most common problems found with traditional disaster recovery (DR) plans.

Missing was a...

Feb 16, 2010
almost very other week, and our data center was getting out of control," said Maliyil, a panel speaker at the conference. The company is in a hosted data center. Rather...
Feb 13, 2007
technologies to centralize data center resources and develop the capability to deliver applications and services on the fly as business needs change.

In this...

Mar 25, 2009
going to play an active role in his data center, rather than being a peripheral technology. Taylor had sprawl problems to solve, and he tapped virtualization as the...
Aug 1, 2006

More challenges for a cool, virtual data center

The process of moving from a physical environment to a predominantly virtual one did come with its fair share of...

Mar 8, 2006

"If you virtualize the entire data center, in VMware's terms you have a data center operating system," said Mark Bowker, analyst with Burton Group in Midvale, Utah, in a...

Apr 21, 2009
test and development and into the data center faster than anyone imagined, including the experts. And while there are sure to be some bumps in the road in 2006 as the...
Jan 4, 2006
a specific subject area or skill set.

data center - centralized repository for the storage, management, and dissemination of data and information organized around a...
Sep 19, 2003
has already paid off for data center manager David Grant, though it pays additional dividends this week. Hewlett-Packard Co. announced this week the rollout...
Sep 14, 2005
merged and right now I'm working on data center consolidation. That's typically the last thing you can get to," said Thompson. "We're shutting down some labs and...
Sep 5, 2006
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process for the entire physical and virtual infrastructure. Read this white paper to learn more. Having a disaster recovery (DR) plan is mandatory. Most...
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for the entirety of the evolving data center.

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Windows IT Technology
Some companies are opting to stick with Windows XP as long as possible, potentially even skipping a Windows 7 migration, despite the potential downsides of decreasing XP support from Microsoft and business... More...
Jan 14, 2009

CHICAGO -- Windows is going to be a dominant server platform in the data center within the next five years.

Surprised? Maybe not. Appalled? If you're a data center manager dealing with issues... More...

Jun 16, 2003
will be running most of their applications on Linux and Windows. If this thought made you shudder a year ago, chances are your take is somewhat different now. Statistics prove a growing number of shops are already increasing their use... More...
Jun 6, 2004