By Michael P. Kassner When it comes to data processing and storage capabilities, today’s businesses never seem to have enough. Companies, to satiate their need, are intermixing services from traditional in-house data centers, commercial colocation facilities, and cloud providers. These hybrid environments complicate the IT environment to be sure,

By Robert McFarlane Several fundamental factors drive data center design requirements and costs. Get them right before establishing budgets and drafting blueprints. Failure to do so virtually guarantees problems after occupancy. Fixing mistakes in a data center after it's running is challenging, expensive and operationally dangerous. If the build team

By Bill Kleyman Virtualization has fundamentally changed the way we design and deploy data centers. Moving forward, cloud and virtualization technologies are only going to continue to empower and evolve the data center ecosystem. For example, the latest AFCOM State of the Data Center report indicates that between now and

By Adam Roberts, Chief Solutions Architect, SanDisk The growth of data has put a strain on data center performance and efficiency. Solid-state-devices (SSD) are playing a significant role in increasing storage speeds and performance – but it’s not a simple plug and play solution. Join Adam Roberts, Chief Solutions Architect