Multi-tenant clouds assure security for clients, but not necessarily for their ideas. Here's one thing you should discuss with your cloud provider before you sign on.
Microsoft's recent decision to bundle its Office software with business partner offerings indicates that cloud software may be in the news, but licensed packages are still in demand for failover.
With 24/7 processing and business continuation paramount, more organizations are considering having three datacenters, where primary and secondary datacenters are in their immediate region and a third is in a remote geography. Why? To avoid repercussions of a major disaster that could hit every IT resource in a specific region.
Cloud is pushing classic corporate data centers beyond their physical boundaries and into new territory to where they one day might be expected to federate with different clouds. For this to happen seamlessly, a new class of systems management superstructure software will be needed.
Ethernet has emerged as the dominant networking option in the enterprise, the home, and the WAN. Now, after years of being rebuffed, it is poised to become the dominant method of connecting datacenter devices.
Data storage requirements continue to grow and put pressure on enterprise networks. As these systems expand to support zetabytes of information, will the datacenter infrastructure become too complex for corporations to support?
Since not all cloud services providers consistently meet IT standards of excellence, traditional purveyors of IT hardware, software, and best practices are entering the field with "pre-packaged" data centers for cloud providers that are intended to meet corporate IT's high expectations.
Based on a survey of more than 60,000 subscribers, the most frequently reported cause of technical implementation failures has less to do with technology than it does with cooperation.
Cisco's UCS and IBM's zEnterprise have upped the ante for virtualization and 21st century computing. In the future, look for integration of disparate operating systems at the firmware level, self-healing architectures, and workload optimization across entire data centers.
It's important for enterprises to capture data and build an infrastructure so they can digest and analyze it. Because what will set the winners apart in the future is that they will know more, Cloudera's CEO says.
What kinds of companies are doing the most innovation in the data center? Turns out it's midtier enterprises that are taking the "Just Right" approach.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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