Devops is a Verb
– Lori MacVittie, senior technical marketing manager at F5 Networks (www.f5.com), says:Operations is increasingly responsible for deploying and managing applications within this architecture, requiring traditionally...
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Preparing a Data Center for Power Outages with 15 Diesel Generator Maintenance Tips
– Ken Koty, sales engineer for PDU Cables (http://www.pducables.com/) and former data center facilities manager for Thomsen Reuters, says:Power outages occur; they are practically unavoidable, that’s why diesel generator...
Read MoreLessons from the Heroku/Amazon Outage
– Nati Shalom, CTO of GigaSpaces (http://www.gigaspaces.com/), says:Late last week we experienced the third significant AWS outage in the past 14 months, as reported by Justin Lee in his report Heroku, Pinterest Among...
Read MoreManage Costs & Risk with Defensible Deletion
– Jim McGann, Index Engines (http://www.indexengines.com/), says:Organizations have become extremely good at stockpiling electronic data – hoarding it, in fact. Companies continue to add storage and disk space, allowing...
Read MoreSafeguarding Sensitive Financial Data
– Chris Jensen, Financial Services Expert, TeleSign (http://www.telesign.com/), says:Founded in 1819, BankNewport is one of the oldest mutual savings banks in the United States. This historic institution is providing an...
Read MoreSimplifying Network and Application Performance Management
– Kieran Taylor, Director of Product Marketing, Compuware Application Performance Management (APM) Business Unit, says:As a network administrator, you may think your job is done if all your servers and your network are up...
Read MoreTop of Rack Networking: Employing Software-Defined Networking for Optimization with Flexibility
– Iain Kenney, Director of Product Marketing at LG Ericsson USA (www.lgericssonus.com), says:In today’s world, where access to information is king, the ‘palace’ is under constant renovation. Data centers are expanding at a...
Read MoreTotal Eclipse of the Internet
– Lori MacVittie, senior technical marketing manager at F5 Networks (www.f5.com), says: Even after solar eclipses could be predicted with a fair amount of precision, such an event was often used to attempt to change human...
Read MoreIndex Engines Offers a Solution to the Legacy Backup Tape Dilemma
– Jim McGann, VP of Information Discovery, Index Engines (http://www.indexengines.com/), says:IT professionals regularly struggle with the dilemma of having stacks of legacy backup tapes and ask the question, “Do we hold...
Read MoreWater in the Data Center
– Chris Crosby, CEO at Compass Data Centers (www.compassdatacenters.com), says: As Coleridge made clear, water is essential for survival. Since data centers hadn’t been invented when he published The Rime of the Ancient...
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