Notes from the Consultant’s Jungle

By- Bob Landström

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Entries Tagged as 'Data Centers'

Data Center Tier Models: New Guidance from BICSI

July 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Data Center, Data Center MEP, Data Centers, Enterprise Architecture

The Tier Model for Mission Critical Facilities, created and governed by The Uptime Institute, is the most pervasively referenced data center tier model.  It is, however, not the only tier model for data center facilities, though it enjoys the majority of mind-share in this regard.  We have written about The Uptime Institute’s data center tier [...]

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New Opportunities in the Government Sector: Part 1

May 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Data Center, Data Centers, Green Data Center, Green IT, IT Governance

Across the world there are new opportunities for data center and IT consulting companies to capitalize on the consolidation projects being launched in the Government sector.  Like commercial enterprises, governments focusing on governance (no pun intended) of IT see the benefits of consolidation of the data processing footprint.  Also like commercial enterprises, governments have business [...]

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Cloud Cloudiness

April 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business Continuity Planning, Cloud Computing, Compliance, Data Center, Data Centers, Enterprise Architecture, IS Security, IT Governance, SaaS

Confusion Persists
Through several posts on this blog, we discussed the many aspects of confusion around the term, “Cloud Computing.”  After attending this year’s Cloud Expo in New York City and seeing the same three-layer stack (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) slide in fifty half of the presentations, I have to conclude that confusion still exists in the [...]

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Top Issues and Trends in the Financial Services Vertical

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Data Center, Data Centers, Uncategorized

TelX hosted a financial services roundtable event at their Financial Business Exchange (FBX) data center in Clifton, New Jersey. The panel of industry experts (and TelX customers) was moderated by the TABB Group’s Kevin McPartland, and introduced by TelX CEO Eric Shepcaro.
Mr. Shepcaro introduced the event by giving his own personal background about why we [...]

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Top 5 Data Center Issues for the Enterprise IT Executive

March 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Business, Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery Planning, IT Governance

A quick perusal of a typical contemporary IT project portfolio will show a strong representation of projects dependent upon, or directly related to the data center.  Changes in the growth and scale of data processing, applications, content storage, data communications, risk, compliance, and maturity of IT governance are all in some way connected to the [...]

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Physical Security for Cloud Data Centers

December 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery Planning, IS Security

As I’ve watched the momentum of the Cloud, it’s caused me to reflect upon earlier discussions about data center physical security.  It’s long been my opinion that physical security will soon emerge (or re-emerge) as a top issue in data center planning, since businesses and consumers alike are increasingly reliant on the data and transaction [...]

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Shell Building Property as Data Centers: When to Just Walk Away

November 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, Data Centers

Many firms have gone looking for core/shell property with the intent of renovating these structures for use as a data center.  These projects are very capital intensive, and in many cases the benefits of having the existing structure are almost nil when viewed in the context of the broader project plan and budget.  However, many [...]

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Jim Cramer? C’mon Man!

October 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Business Continuity Planning, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery Planning, Mergers and Acquisitions, Uncategorized

Well, now I know why I’ve never come out on top whenever I buy one of Jim Cramer’s recomendations.
In a recent (10/22/2009) Mad Money piece on CNBC, Jim Cramer used the Equinix acquisition of Switch and Data to make the point that data centers are obsolete.  In his diatribe about why anyone with Equinix stock [...]

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