DataCenterKnowledge, Friday, August 4,2023
5 Physical Data Center Security Threats That Are Easy To Miss
A secure perimeter isn't enough to protect your data center from physical security threats. Don't overlook these five threats.
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DataCenterKnowledge, Wednesday, August 2,2023
Data Center Power & Cooling In 2023: Top Stories So Far
From a case study on cooling tech to predictions on the future of renewables, these are the top data center power and cooling stories of 2023 so far.
more → hyperview, Friday, July 28,2023
5 Top Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Trends
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is the process of monitoring, managing and optimizing the physical and logical components of a data center, such as servers, storage, network, power, cooling and security. DCIM software helps data center operators to improve efficiency, reduce costs, enhance performance and ensure availability of their IT services.
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Register, Wednesday, July 26,2023
Too Many Bytes And Not Enough Bricks For Datacenters
The European datacenter industry is facing issues meeting the growing demand for capacity with materials and heavy equipment to build sites in short supply, among other factors.
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The Register, Friday, July 21,2023
Why Do Cloud Titans Keep Building Datacenters In America's Hottest City?
100 days over 100F and historic drought don't faze Microsoft or Google. With more than a hundred 100F (37.7C) days a year and a persistent drought, on paper Phoenix, Arizona is one of the last places you'd expect to find cloud and colocation providers setting down roots.
more → TechZone360, Friday, July 21,2023
Does Cyber Insurance Help Protect You From Insider Threats?
In the world of cybersecurity, professionals are always in competition with cybercriminals, attempting to adapt security tactics and technologies as quickly as bad actors are able to produce newer and more sophisticated threats
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Futurecio, Monday, July 17,2023
On-Premise Data Centres - Down But Not Out
Ten years ago, enterprises spent over US$80 billion per year on IT hardware and software for their own data centres, while well under US$10 billion on nascent cloud infrastructure services. Fast forward to the present day and spending on data centre hardware and software has only grown by an average of 2% per year, while spending on cloud services has ballooned, growing by an average of 42% per year to reach US$227 billion in 2022.
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CIO, Friday, July 14,2023
Top 5 Features Your IT Service Management (ITSM) Solution Should Have
These are the top five functionalities you need to deliver exceptional service to end-users.
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CIODIVE, Friday, July 14,2023
On-Prem Data Centers Retain A Shrinking Foothold As Cloud's Shadow Looms
While capacity steadily migrates to massive CSPs, more than one-third of worldwide data and compute remains on-prem.
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TechCrunch, Friday, July 14,2023
On-Prem Data Centers Are Hanging In, But Cloud Capacity Is Growing Much Faster
In 2017, on-prem data centers accounted for nearly 60% of capacity. By 2027, Synergy Research is projecting that number will be cut in half, but that data doesn't tell the whole story.
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Search Data Center, Wednesday, July 12,2023
8 Benefits Of Data Center Virtualization
Organizations with virtualized data center components can save on hardware, comply easier with regulations and increase speed. Consider virtualization for your infrastructure.
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Solutions Review, Tuesday, July 11,2023
Debunking 7 Common Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) Myths That Hurt Businesses
Myths and misconceptions around solutions such as Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) software can lead to misuse, underuse, and potentially catastrophic failure in successfully deploying such software.
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The Register, Tuesday, July 11,2023
Datacenter Industry Sees Demand Growing, But So Are Energy Costs
Datacenter operators are confident demand for their services will continue to increase, but worry about the high cost of energy, their ability to source UPS hardware and cooling units, and crucially, being able to hire staff with requisite skills in a competitive market.
more → Search Data Center, Monday, July 10,2023
Data Center Cooling Challenges And How To Solve Them
Data centers that are not properly cooled can see equipment work inefficiently or become damaged. Learn some common cooling challenges and assess ways to solve them.
more → DraaCenter Knowledge, Monday, July 10,2023
Consolidating Your Data Center Can Save Money, Increase Efficiency, And Reduce Risk. Follow These Five Steps To Achieve A Successful Data Center Consolidation.
Consolidating your data center can save money, increase efficiency, and reduce risk. Follow these five steps to achieve a successful data center consolidation.
more → DevOps.com, Friday, July 7,2023
How To Keep Your IT Infrastructure Invisible
IT infrastructure is critical. IT infrastructure enables businesses to run-from day-to-day operational execution to visionary strategic innovation and everything in between. What's interesting, though, is that people are only aware of it when there's a problem: HR can't access the payroll application, customers are complaining about how slow the transactional system is or this month's cloud bill was double what you expected it to be.
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GCN, Thursday, July 6,2023
6 Steps To Securing Operational Technology In Critical Infrastructure
Securing the hardware and software systems in power plants, water treatment facilities, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure calls for network visibility, vulnerability assessment and holistic strategic and incident response plans.
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Search CIO, Wednesday, July 5,2023
Replacing vs. Maintaining Legacy Systems
Understanding issues such as which systems hinder organizational performance can help IT leaders decide which legacy systems to replace and which to maintain.
more → ComputerWeekly, Monday, July 3,2023
IT Sustainability Think Tank: Green IT Regulations And The Datacentre
There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things?
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FORTRA, Monday, July 3,2023
5 Things Everyone Needs To Know About Governance, Risk And Compliance (GRC)
Over the following years, the costs associated with cybercrime, projected at $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, will exceed the estimated worldwide cybersecurity spending-$267.3 billion annually by 2026. Leadership needs to change its perspective on managing cyber risks instead of just spending more money to match the losses incurred.
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DataCenter Knowledge, Tuesday, June 27,2023
Data Center Physical Infrastructure Sales Soar
The market for power and cooling equipment continues to grow as supply chain pressures ease, analyst report shows.
more → InformationWeek, Monday, June 26,2023
IT's Role In E-Discovery
E-discovery (for electronic discovery) is the electronic aspect of identifying, collecting, and producing electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a request for production in a lawsuit or investigation, according to legal definitions.
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Enterprise Storage Forum, Friday, June 23, 2023
Top Vulnerability Management Tools
Businesses are more concerned than ever before about their security posture, and with good reason-the risk of cyber attacks has never been higher. Neither has the cost of a breach, which can have significant impact on business continuity, expose customer data, and damage the organization's reputation.
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DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, June 22, 2023
What Is Data Center PUE? Defining Power Usage Effectiveness
PUE measures the energy efficiency of data centers. Here's why power usage effectiveness is important and how to reduce your data center's PUE.
more → Solutions Review, Thursday, June 22, 2023
DPUs and the Importance of Data Center Fabric Technology
For organizations of all sizes, data centers are a critical component that enables the storage and processing of massive amounts of data for business-critical applications. The network fabrics these data centers are built around are increasingly critical- and increasingly more complex.
more → InformationWeek, Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Who Is Responsible For Identity Threat Detection And Response?
Security and risk management leaders must designate an owner who can coordinate prevention, detection and response activities.
more → NetworWorld, Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Supply-Chain Constraints Spike Data-Center Outages
Almost half of data center operators surveyed have had an outage because they couldn't get needed parts.
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DataCenter Knowledge, Monday, June 19, 2023
Data Center Perils & Countermeasures: Is Your Server Firmware Secure?
The threat of cyberattacks by bad actors is rising, and firmware is an enticing target. Find out why companies should give firmware security more attention.
more → flare, Tuesday, June 13,2023
Continuous Monitoring In Cybersecurity: The Definitive Guide
In cybersecurity, threats are not static; they dynamically evolve, becoming more sophisticated with each passing day. To keep pace with these ever-emerging threats, a passive, one-and-done security approach no longer cuts it.
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DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, June 8,2023
Colocation Data Center vs. Private Data Center: Which Is Right For You?
There are both benefits and drawbacks to choosing a colocation data center over a private data center. Here are situations where colocation may or may not be the right choice for hosting workloads.
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, June 1,2023
Nuclear-Powered Data Centers: Practical Or A Pipe Dream?
It's clean, efficient, and abundant, but is nuclear a good way to power data centers? Let's dig in.
more → Search Data Center, Thursday, June 1,2023
Data Center Redundancy: The Basics
Downtime can cost businesses thousands, and redundancy is one way to minimize disruptions. Assess uptime requirements when building redundancy in data center facilities.
more → hyperview, Tuesday, May 30,2023
Why Cloud Did Not Kill The Data Center
Back in the day, you know, pre-cloud, life in the data center may have not been easy, but at least it was under control. Well, sort of. We controlled the vendors (we thought). We controlled growth (well, our users did that).
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Tuesday, May 30,2023
Why 'Data Center vs. Cloud' Is The Wrong Way To Think
Modern storage infrastructure needs to provide performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency to maximize data value and minimize time to insights for organizations in the digital business era.
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InfoQ, Friday, May 26,2023
DevSusOps - Bringing Sustainability Concerns to Development and Operations (50:49)
Adrian Cockcroft defines terminology and introduces the mental models needed to make sense of sustainability as a non-functional requirement for developing and operating systems.
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Search Data Center, Wednesday, May 24,2023
6 Data Center Migration Best Practices
Data center migrations can be a complex process. Use best practices when migrating a data center to ensure maximum uptime, avoid data loss and stay on schedule.
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Friday, May 19,2023
Looking Back At Data Center World 2023: 3 Concerns That Stood Out
Data Center World highlighted three major challenges in the data center industry: power and heat density, site and construction, and sustainability.
more → Security Boulevard, Friday, May 19,2023
Complete Guide To Elastic SIEM
Elastic Security, which includes Elastic security information and event management (SIEM), is a comprehensive security solution developed by Elastic. It combines various security tools and features to help organizations detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats in real-time.
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IBM, Friday, May 12,2023
MTTR vs. MTBF: What's The Difference?
Businesses rely every day on various systems and pieces of equipment to keep their operations running smoothly. But all systems inevitably require upkeep. It could be intangible software, like an IT service network that has accumulated enough bugs to break an important feature, sending developers scrambling for a fix. Or it could be a piece of physical equipment, like an ice cream machine in a fast food restaurant with a broken o-ring.
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The Register, Wednesday, May 10,2023
Money Starts To Flow As Liquid Cooling Gets Hot In Datacenters
Global investment company KKR picks up CoolIT Systems for $270M
more → Networkworld, Wednesday, May 10,2023
Us Data Center Market Nears Full Capacity
Demand for data center infrastructure persists amid power limitations, supply chain issues, and rising costs.
more → Fortra, Wednesday, May 10,2023
3 Tips For Enterprise Patch Management
We have recently concluded the first quarter of 2023, and there have already been over 250 patches for the many components and flavours of Microsoft's operating systems, as well as a handful of patches for Adobe, Apple, and Android.
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Search Data Center, Tuesday, May 9,2023
Edge Data Center
An edge data center is a small data center that is located close to the edge of a network. It provides the same device found in traditional data centers but is contained in a smaller footprint, closer to end users and devices.
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, May 4,2023
Considerations For Converting Buildings Into Modern Data Centers
Remote work, cloud-based computing, and streaming services have increased demand for high-speed internet - and, in turn, a market for secure data centers.
more → Networkworld, Wednesday, May 3,2023
Data Center Sustainability Becoming The Norm, Not The Exception
Sustainability initiatives like maximizing IT equipment lifecycles, using renewable energy and more can help save money, improve the environment and insulate themselves against risk, according to Gartner report.
more → Gartner, Tuesday, May 2,2023
Gartner Predicts 75% Of Organizations Will Have Implemented A Data Center Infrastructure Sustainability Program By 2027
Analysts to Explore Sustainable IT Infrastructure Trends at Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Sydney, May 15-16, 2023
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DataCenter Knowledge, Tuesday, May 2,2023
5 Data Center Myths Debunked
From who runs them, to where they're located, to how sustainable they are, here are five common misconceptions about data centers.
more → TechMint, Tuesday, May 2,2023
12 Best Software For Data Center Server Management
When a company grows its demand for computing resources grows as well. It works for regular companies as for providers, including those renting out dedicated servers. When the total number of racks exceeds 10 you'll start facing issues.
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DataCenter Knowledge, Saturday, April 29,2023
Intentional Diversity In The Data Center: 4 Steps To Maximize Performance
While there are multiple failovers that can prevent data center outages, the key to ensuring network resiliency is intentional diversity. Learn the key steps that every data center should take.
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Thursday, April 27,2023
Traditional Vs. Hyperscale Data Centers: What's The Difference?
Do you want to be a hyperscaler? Here are the defining characteristics of hyperscale data centers.
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