Server power consumption estimation remains the biggest challenge for data center designers and has actually increased… in difficulty as services move to the cloud and hosting sites. There is still no absolute answer and no single equation, but the fundamentals remain the same. A kW-per-rack approach is more useful than an estimation of the dated […]

Data centers are the focal point of many businesses to effectively run vital applications, store critical data and provide important user services. But data center infrastructure is in a constant state of change. New technologies consistently reshape the data center and its role in the business. At the same time, external forces such as the […]

The rivalry between VMware and Nutanix spilled into court this week when VMware filed a lawsuit against Rajiv Ramaswami, weeks after he left VMware to become Nutanix CEO. VMware on Monday night said it filed suit in Superior Court of the State of California, County of Santa Clara against Ramaswami. VMware did not name Nutanix […]

A new Gartner report on enterprise architecture tools predicts that big players in adjacent markets will buy the products or launch their own due to the growing importance of models in modern business. Leading vendors in areas such as product and portfolio management (PPM) and IT service management (ITSM) could venture into enterprise architecture (EA) […]

The main benefits of an uninterruptible power supply in a data center are to supplement primary power source failure and protect sensitive hardware from damaging electrical surges. These systems come in a variety of types, but you should consider how the latest technology can make backup power management easier; vendors now offer more than just […]

Uninterruptible power supply selection starts with a plan and a business purpose. The hardware’s goal is to maintain power when the utility service quits, but admins should determine for how long, how much redundancy is necessary, how big the supply must be, if it must eliminate power anomalies and how often the system must be […]

A data center is the heart of a modern enterprise, providing computing, storage and networking resources necessary to support varied and demanding enterprise applications that drive the business. Traditionally, a business builds, equips and operates its own data center — and might even support multiple data centers constructed in strategic regional or global locations. But […]

NetApp Converged Systems Advisor is a cloud-based management platform for monitoring, validating and optimizing NetApp FlexPod converged infrastructure deployments. The platform helps simplify the ongoing administration of FlexPod systems throughout their lifecycles. It also ensures optimal performance and availability for business applications running on those systems. FlexPod customers can use NetApp Converged Systems Advisor to […]

Organizations must invest in effective data center power systems to avoid costly downtime. But admins shouldn’t just focus on primary power systems. Backup power hardware, such as uninterruptible power supplies, is also essential. During the selection process, admins can look at three main types of uninterruptible power supplies (UPSes): online, line-interactive and standby. With online […]

Enterprises are generating more data than ever, but they also need applications that can make sense of all this information. Many are turning to AI, big data analytics and other advanced technologies that can derive meaningful insights from the data. Such applications require adequate IT infrastructure to support them, however. That infrastructure sometimes can even […]