Building a Greener Data Center Makes Good Business Sense
When it comes to running a Data Center, what are your biggest costs? Chances are, it’s heating and cooling and keeping the lights on. Since you aren’t likely to start running your own electricity generating plant, there are many steps you can take to control the cost of heating and cooling your data center — and if it saves you money why wouldn’t you do it? I’ve often said companies like Google, Facebook and Yahoo! are exploring green technologies to run their massive data centers, not so much because they care about the environment — although they might...
read moreZynga shows how to build a hybrid cloud
When it comes to building a hybrid cloud, just ask game maker Zynga how it’s done. That’s because Zynga, like many start-ups, started out as an Amazon EC2 customer, but as it grew it recognized it would need to build out its own data center too. Yet instead of giving up EC2, Zynga opted for a hybrid approach and has solved many of the issues that may be concerning you about going in a similar direction — but is Zynga’s experience applicable to all companies? Networkworld recently interviewed Zynga CTO Allan Leinwand to find out what it took to pull off a hybrid cloud...
read moreIT Pros Should Have Remote Data Center Access
When we first started discussing the cloud in the 2008 timeframe, many IT pros mocked it, but today the cloud along with mobile is helping them do their jobs even when they can’t be in the office. In fact, a recent post on Infoworld showed off the favorite iOS and Android apps of IT pros. The slide show is chock full of remote monitoring tools, secure file access and utilities galore that let you communicate and work securely from your mobile device. It’s the kind of thing that could help you out when you’re at a conference and you need to stay in touch with the data center...
read moreCloud Computing Could Give You Shelter From Storms
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm” ~Bob Dylan, Shelter from the Storm. One thing we have learned over the last year or two is that disasters can strike anywhere. When the earthquake hit in Japan last year, lots of data centers were no doubt put out of commission for at least a period of time. When a freak October snow storm struck Massachusetts last Fall, some places were without power for more than a week. And the disasters seem to be happening with increasing frequency. How can you as an IT Pro protect the data side of your business? Well, the answer could...
read moreAmazon Proves Cloud Competition Good for IT
Last week Amazon Web Services announced that it was dropping its prices. According to a post on ZDNet, this was the 19th time in 6 years that Amazon agreed to drop its prices and it’s another case of the price of technology services going down — a trend that has to make any cash-strapped IT executive smile. It’s probably a big contributing factor as well as to why Amazon is the number one cloud service provider in the world. How big? Very big. According to a post on GigaOm, analyst Huan Liu from Accenture estimates that the Amazon Elastic Cloud service encompasses an...
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