Is your data center heading toward a Converged Infrastructure?
Part One: The Converged Infrastructure and You
HP has been talking quite a bit about a “converged infrastructure,” which our trusty Wikipedia defines as packaging:
“Multiple information technology (IT) components into a single, optimized computing solution. Components of a converged infrastructure solution include servers, data storage devices, networking equipment and software for IT infrastructure management, automation and [...]
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Three Simple Steps You Can Take to Improve Cooling in Your Data Center Today
Look, just like lots of other things in your life, airflow management in your data center is all about control. Unlike other things in your life, there are some simple things you can do to give you some level of control.
Let’s start at the beginning, then some tips.
Early Data Center Design – Room Level
Early data [...]
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Cloud Computing and the Financial Services Industry: A Good Match?
Among all the coverage, talk and hype over cloud computing, we’ve been interested to see what the financial sector is doing. We work with a number of companies in this industry and, in our experience; they’re a pretty savvy group. Some large banks are testing cloud computing due to its agility and cost-efficiency. Other [...]
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Have you heard the one about cloud computing?
Stop us if you’ve heard this one: a data center manager puts his computing into the cloud…
Have you heard about Cloud Computing? Probably too much and not enough at the same time. We’ve been laughing about a great post decrying the overload of cloud computing coverage at Cloud Ave: “Cloud Computing is Dead.”
We’ve taken more [...]
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AFCO Systems IDs Five Ways to Keep Your Data Center Servers and Switches Happy
Data Center Professionals Must Consider the Effect their Choice of Data Center Enclosure Has on the Hardware in their Data Centers
Farmingdale, NY (PRWEB) February 16, 2011
You may have the latest, greatest blade servers and network switches in your corporate data center, but are they really happy? “We don’t mean happy as in joyful [...]
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AFCO Joins DCIM Players
Are you evaluating Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) systems? If so, you need to understand what you’re looking to “see” and what you’re looking to “control.”  In other words, what do you want the DCIM software to tell you?
Among the things DCIM systems can help you see environmentally are computer room air conditioners (CRACs) and [...]
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ARM-Based Technology Enables Rapid Change in the Data Center
According to an article in GigaOm, the rapid adoption of open source innovation in the information industries has taken root and will continue to productively fester affecting the data center; a$50 billion market that is about to escalate at near warp speed.
ARM technology (formerly known as the Advanced RISC Machine) is a 32-bit reduced instruction [...]
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If Your Appliances are Smart, Your Data Center has to be Smarter
It won’t be long before your refrigerator is talking to the Internet. Your washer and dryer and your oven will have access, too. Simply put, your appliances will be smart.
Over-pricing and under-performance issues have slowed the growth of smart appliances in the past. But manufacturers LG, General Electric, Whirlpool, Panasonic, Electrolux, Bosch [...]
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If Your Appliances are Smart, Your Data Center has to be Smarter
It won’t be long before your refrigerator is talking to the Internet.  Your washer and dryer and your oven will have access, too.  Simply put, your appliances will be smart.
Over-pricing and under-performance issues have slowed the growth of smart appliances in the past.  But manufacturers LG, General Electric, Whirlpool, Panasonic, Electrolux, Bosch and others are [...]
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