IO Blog
Data RoundUp: Super Bowl Edition
Featured in the Data RoundUp this week: Mobile Data Use at the Game Climbs, Internet Use Everywhere Else Dips. Big Data. IT-Related Tweets Regarding the Blackout.
Addressing Latency Challenges With Strategic Data Center Placement
As in residential and commercial real estate, location plays a crucial role in creating data center value. Beyond the usual considerations that go into selecting a data center location—such as land costs, access to utilities, the local political climate and an area’s vulnerability to floods, fire, earthquakes and other types of disasters—lies the far from… View Article
Overlooked Factors When Choosing a Data Center Provider
You look for certain things when selecting a data center provider, such as location, services, redundancy, uptime and security. These are among the major considerations. But there are also many smaller details—often overlooked, sometimes completely forgotten—that can mark the difference between a highly successful data center deployment or one that’s continually plagued by inefficiency and… View Article
Getting ready for telepresence
Telepresence marks the next step beyond videoconferencing and webconferencing. The technology provides an immersive meeting experience featuring ultimate levels of video and audio clarity. In a telepresence session, participants are life-size. Every sound, gesture and facial expression helps support natural communication in high-definition video and high-fidelity sound. Telepresence combines realistic and reliable video and audio… View Article
Tapping Into Software as a Service
Software as a Service (SaaS) provides numerous opportunities for independent software vendors (ISVs) and other types of software developers. SaaS has come a long way from its early years when product selection was limited to a handful of HR and CRM solutions. Today, a wide range of business and IT applications can be supplied as… View Article
Ensuring Secure Data Preservation
A growing number of businesses are facing the need to securely retain larger amounts of data over longer periods of time. New regulatory mandates, increasing litigation risks and evolving business requirements all mean that companies now must keep a wide range of data intact and available for many years—forever, in some cases. Improved and lower… View Article
Top Data Center Trends of 2011
With 2010 just about over, it’s time to look forward to next year and the opportunities and challenges the upcoming 12 months will present. As always, data center technologies and data practices are evolving rapidly, making it essential for executives and managers to monitor changes in a variety of different areas. To help you along,… View Article
Conducting a Year-end Data Center Assessment
With 2010 nearly over, now is a great time to step back and evaluate how your data center performed during the past year. Many things, both good and bad, can happen to a data center over a 12 month period. A comprehensive analysis and assessment will help you improve reliability, boost productivity and stay in… View Article
The Next Frontier: Network Virtualization
It looms as the data center’s next great frontier, yet network virtualization is still sometimes confused with cloud computing and several other leading edge technologies. That’s unfortunate, because network virtualization, when understood and recognized for its unique benefits, can help almost any data center reach new levels of efficiency and cost savings. What is network… View Article