Do we need to repeal Moore's law? As the cost drivers in the data centre change, it will be those managers who can understand the data centre's physical infrastructure who will meet the challenge. Read more
As the third annual event, the data centre story continues to unfold and issues that were not apparent even a year ago, become the currency of concern today. In reflecting these changes, this year's event is divided into a number of segments. Read more
On average, computer rooms have nearly three times more cooling than required - yet many are still having hot spot problems. Read more
"There are hundreds of ways that moving your infrastructure to an outsourced service provider can provide cost benefits," says Anthony Foy. "One good example is carrier independence. If you have your own data centre, you will need to contract to a connectivity supplier ? which means you have to pay for the physical and exclusive cabling, and if the provider's systems crash, you lose connectivity. Having two carrier providers for resilience purposes is usually too costly for most organisations. Read more
How to turn the advantages of high density into opportunities for high efficiency. Read more
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Contingency Planning, Crisis Management and Incident Management are all terms we hear but they are often used with inexact meanings and interchangeably. What do these terms really mean and how do they relate to each other? In this article I aim to explain how the disciplines of Crisis and Incident Management, Business Continuity, IT Continuity and Disaster Recovery link together into one coherent approach to assuring your organization's resilience. Read more
?Going Global' offers many opportunities to an organisation; potential new markets, new revenue streams, to state the obvious ? but what about the challenges it brings to the CIO organisation at an operational level? Questions need to be considered such as; how do you deploy business applications to a global user base? What are the most cost effective technologies to use? How much network bandwidth do you need? Read more
Data centres: costly, high maintenance, power hungry yet essential, they pose tough questions for IT managers. Perhaps the biggest question though is the one that reaches perhaps higher than the CTO or CIO ? how do we cut datacentre costs whilst increasing performance but without sacrificing security? It seems the answer for many may now lie in offshoring. Read more
Over 40 years ago Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, observed that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits doubled every year and went on to give his opinion that this could be expected to continue in the short and possibly long term. Subsequently, chip component density did indeed double at regular, although progressively longer, intervals, which earned his opinion the sobriquet of "Moore's Law". Although Gordon Moore has since stated that this scaling can be expected to reach a fundamental technological barrier in another decade or two as transistors approach the size of atoms, history does not rule out that a new technology will emerge to enable scaling to continue, possibly "at the double" as at present. Read more
The data centre is the engine room of modern business. Highly secure and carefully managed, the data centre provides the horsepower for millions or even billions of mission-critical transactions and processes, and the storage capacity for vast amounts of data. It is the focal point for IT investment, the core of the modern corporation. Read more
When it comes to IT, mid-sized businesses (MSBs) are often stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, IT innovation can provide critical business advantages necessary to leverage core competencies to compete successfully against larger companies. On the other hand, MSBs typically lack the IT resources larger competitors possess. MSBs must be smarter and more efficient in their use of IT to gain competitive IT advantages within their tight resource constraints. Read more
International law firm Norton Rose had ambitious goals for the future. To capitalise on its strong reputation, it planned to open new international offices, expand existing premises and launch new client services. Yet these plans for expansion exposed a major business risk. Read more
Ian Masters, sales director at Double-Take Software, provides in the article below a practical guide not just on business continuity planning, but why it is vital to your company. He discusses that while most businesses are aware of the need for business continuity planning to ensure staff safety and the restoration of office facilities in the event of a disaster, far fewer have considered what can be done to ensure that access to data in the event of a disaster will not be compromised. Read more
Document and content management is shaping up to be one of the most dynamic technology sectors in 2007 ? even more so now that Microsoft has declared its hand. All the major players and practitioners will be gathering at Earls Court in May at the industry's top event. We take the opportunity look at what's setting the agenda. Read more
As enterprises look to squeeze cost savings out of their IT infrastructure, CIOs and data center managers alike are turning to server consolidation as a way to meet this objective. According to Gartner Research, 60 percent of surveyed companies are in the process of consolidating their infrastructure, and 28 percent are planning or considering consolidation. Read more
"If the focus of datacentre physical infrastructure is to ensure that the microprocessor is kept within its operational power and cooling parameters" says Paul Tyrer, APC's UK and Ireland Managing Director, "we need to acknowledge that both cooled air and chilled water technologies may exist side by side in the datacentre of the future." Read more
As a leader at a security software company, I'm often asked: what's the most common type of hacker and attack? Over time I've discovered that the general public holds a somewhat romantic image of hackers. One mental picture involves an emaciated young man in a poverty-stricken corner of the world. Greasy-haired and red-eyed, he types late into the night on an old TRS-80 workstation, trying desperately to get your American Express account number for nefarious purposes. Read more
Recent research by Forrester found that almost two-thirds of virtualisation users are looking to expand deployments. The research also found that virtualisation is being used for practical purposes to improve test and development environments and lower hardware costs rather than being integrated as part of an IT strategy such as IT consolidation or GRID computing. Read more
Over the last ten years, Open Systems and the Internet have resulted in an explosion of IT products, technologies and services but with this comes increased complexity of systems and interoperability problems, Leigh Darby, Executive Director of TSANet Europe, reflects on the subject of service standards and goes on to explore how TSANet's framework and code of practice can be applied to help combat some of these issues. Read more
The technological advances of recent years have placed many organizations in a challenging-and often frustrating situation. On the one hand, new software and hardware solutions are enabling faster, better services and boosting the efficiency of business processes. On the other, as organizations strive to exploit these opportunities they find they are often contributing to the creation of increasingly complex, inflexible and costly IT environments. Read more
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