InfoWorld, Tuesday, September 12,2023
What's Next For Observability?
Today's systems are exposing more of their underlying complexity to operators. These are the most exciting new developments along the journey of taming that complexity.
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Cloudtech, Tuesday, September 12,2023
IT Admins Most Concerned By Tool Sprawl, External Threats And Security
JumpCloud Inc.'s newest (SME) IT Trends Report, 'Flexibility and Ingenuity: What's Powering Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise IT Management in 2023', shows that just after SMEs successfully established the new workplace normal following the pandemic, significant turbulence in the greater macroeconomic environment has threatened to upend the system again.
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SiliconANGLE , Monday, September 11,2023
Report: Data Centers Guzzling Enormous Amounts Of Water To Cool Generative AI Servers
Generative artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT are known to consume vast amounts of energy, but few people are aware of the enormous amounts of water required to keep them up and running too.
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SearchCIO, Friday, September 8,2023
16 Top Enterprise Risk Management Software Vendors To Consider In 2023
Enterprise risk management software helps organizations identify, mitigate and remediate business risks, which can lead to improved business performance. The risk management market is rapidly evolving from separate tools across different risk domains toward more integrated platforms that blend governance, risk and compliance functions with management of cybersecurity, IT and third-party risks.
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Search Data Center, Thursday, September 7,2023
Consider These 6 Data Center Cleaning Best Practices
Data center admins that follow cleaning best practices can extend the life span of equipment and better ensure assets don't get damaged. Use these six tips to keep data centers clean.
more → hyperproof, Friday, September 1,2023
Audit Management Software: Why You Need It And How To Put It To Work
Maybe you need to undergo an internal audit in preparation for a SOC 2 audit of your security controls, or maybe you need to pass an external audit as part of HIPAA or PCI DSS compliance. Most likely, you need to survive both audits, plus a bundle of others too. The demand for security audits has marched inexorably upward in recent years, and that is not going to change.
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Data Center Knowledge, Wednesday, August 30,2023
As Data Center Nearshoring Heats Up, Where Will Your Data Lie?
Co-location providers in Mexico may provide an alternative to their US counterparts, but not all data can go out of the country.
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Search Storage, Monday, August 28,2023
Capacity Management
Capacity management is the broad term describing a variety of IT monitoring, administration and planning actions that ensure that a computing infrastructure has adequate resources to handle current data processing requirements, as well as the capacity to accommodate future loads.
more → Computerworld, Monday, August 28,2023
How To Select Sustainability Management Software
For organizations serious about meeting environmental, social, and governance goals, sustainability management tools can collect relevant data, analyze it, and provide actionable insights. Here's what to look for and six leading tools to consider.
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Data Center Knowledge, Thursday, August 24,2023
Is Liquid Cooling Adoption By Data Centers Becoming A Zero-Sum Game?
As data centers' demand for liquid cooling systems continues to increase, strangely, so has demand for high-efficiency air cooling. It seems AI workloads may be bifurcating facility designs.
more → GESTALT IT, Monday, August 21,2023
Unifying Storage Management With SNIA Swordfish
In the Tech Talk recorded at Flash Memory Summit, Stephen Foskett talks with Richelle Ahlvers about SNIA's Swordfish, an extension of the DMTF Redfish standard to enable storage and fabric management.
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CXOtoday.com, Friday, August 18,2023
Energy-Efficient Practices In Data Centers
Over the last few decades, the rapid pace of digital transformation has made data centers an indispensable integral part in Information Technology (IT), powering a data-driven economic landscape. However, being high energy intensive infrastructure, it is estimated presently that data centers alone account for around 1% of global electricity consumption with possibility of further increasing in future.
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Technative, Wednesday, August 16,2023
Why The Heat Is On For Firms To Kill Legacy IT
Sustainability targets, high energy costs and increased digital usage are reaching a tipping point in the datacentre, making modernising IT infrastructure essential.
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information age, Wednesday, August 16,2023
Observability - Everything You Need To Know
Morgan Mclean, Director of Product Management at cybersecurity leader, Splunk, tells Information Age about all things observability
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VentureBeat, Monday, August 14,2023
How New AI Demands Are Fueling The Data Center Industry In The Post-Cloud Era
The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) means a rapid increase in data use and a new era of potential data center industry growth over the next two years and beyond.
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Enterprise Storage Forum, Friday, August 4,2023
What Is A Hyperscale Data Center?
Hyperscale data centers are a business-critical infrastructure designed to hold and manage the data and applications produced by companies, capable of meeting the increasing demand for processing power, storage, and networking resources.
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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.
more → 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.
more → 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.
more → 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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