Intersecting Trends Fuel Need For IT Asset Management
Data center assets are valuable and critical to the organization, such that there has always been a need to properly manage, track and monitor them. By now, one would expect that this long-standing...
View ArticleBonus Article: Making the Hardware Wish List
Children constantly try to convince the family’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) that they really need that latest toy they saw on TV. They promise Return on Investment (ROI) in terms of a cleaner...
View ArticleCatching the “Wave of Prevention”
In what is being called an “emerging wave of prevention,” data center managers are beginning to use new technologies to better understand and plan for potential risks and issues before they happen. For...
View ArticleThree Steps to Simplicity
The hundreds to thousands of physical machines in the typical data center—servers, storage devices, uninterruptible power supplies, networking tools and heating, ventilation and air conditioning...
View ArticleThe Unique Needs of an MTDC Manager
As a manager of colocation facilities, aka Multi-Tenant Data Centers (MTDCs), you face unique challenges. All the issues facing a private data center, compounded by tenants demanding uptime and 24×7...
View ArticleIT Asset Management: The Foundation for DCIM
One of the reasons often cited for the slow growth of the Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) market is the confusion over the definition of DCIM. Is DCIM a set of point functions, such as...
View ArticleLeft Brain versus Right Brain Data Centers
One flavor of pop psychology asserts that people are either left-brained or right-brained. This concept arose out of the work of Roger W. Sperry who severed the nerves joining the two sides of people’s...
View ArticleBuilding an Effective Information Lifecycle Management Strategy
Information Lifecycle Management is poorly understood, but it can help technology strategists to create consistency and certainty for their business users. Information is a living thing, and its...
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