If your industry is being disrupted, chances are a strong new competitor is utilizing DevOps to reduce the time required to get from an idea for software development to secure, effective implementation. Cris Daniluk of […]
In the debate over the true economic impact of a major data center build a case can be made that the jobs created and business generated make the projects beneficial enough for local governments to […]
If you don’t want to be thinking about the election any more, we’re right there with you. But this story is as illuminating as it is surprising. In the months since Data Center Spotlight has […]
Public cloud became the majority of cloud workloads this year, according to the Cisco Global Cloud Index (2015-2020). 51% of all workloads were in private clouds in 2015 but that’s anticipated to drop to 44% […]
Jeff Gilmer of Excipio Consulting understands risk in the data center. Most are a result of human error, and that’s not always in just operations. Poor planning and a lack of strategy are forms of […]
In an example of the repercussions that can occur due to problems within your data center, Ford Motor Company was forced to delay the release of October month-end sales reports due to a substation fire […]
Nothing can lead to the updating of resumes and the decline of an organization’s fortunes faster than difficult-to-correct mistakes and errors in their IT infrastructure. In over a decade of consulting with large organizations on […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hailed as the dominant public cloud provider, and deservedly so, as they have as much cloud business as their next 170 or so competitors combined. But that number will be […]
How do you solve the infrastructure needs of the remote office or satellite location? Traditionally, it has been the (deservedly) much-maligned server closet, that non-redundant, unsecure, difficult-to-maintain, sure-to-go-wrong piece of the infrastructure mix. But demand […]
A number of companies that saw themselves as Amazon Web Services (AWS) competitors are not building much of their strategy around helping customers better utilize AWS. Announcing a deal with AWS earlier this month, VMware […]
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