Earlier this year we talked about 2008 being a breakout year for container data centers. We’ve also discussed new developments and new product introductions by the container vendors as well as a number of established and emerging use cases. It would appear though that the launch of container sales has yet to get underway. In [...]
Container Data Centers- Hard to Sell or Hard to Buy?
September 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Business Continuity Planning, Container Data Centers, Data Center, Disaster Recovery Planning, Green Data Center
Tags:Container Data Centers·Data Center·Data Center Containers·Data Center Planning·Data Center Technology
Ahoy Maty! Servers on the Poop Deck
July 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Data Center, Disaster Recovery Planning, Technology
‘Tis true me hardies, the day o’ big data centers on the seven seas be upon us all. So cast off yer land lubberin’ server farms an’ hoist the main sail. We’re settin’ these servers afloat ‘fore ye feel the bite of me floggin’ whip. Arrr.
Well, we’ve talked about data centers in [...]
Tags:BC/DR·BCP·Cargo Ship Data Centers·Container Data Centers·Data Center·Data Center Containers·Data Center Technology·Disaster Recovery Planning·IDS
New Technology Trends Will Impact Traditional IT Roles
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Convergence, Data Center, Disruptors, IS Security, IT Roadmaps, Technology, VoIP
We’ve become fairly comfortable with the structure of our IT organizations, but new trends in technology product development are increasingly challenging these traditional models.
In the traditional (i.e., over the past 10 years or so) IT organization we have roughly aligned the organizational chart with a logical stack corresponding to our data processing footprint. We [...]
Tags:Cisco·Data Center Technology·IT Organizations·IT Roles·IT Services·Utility Computing·Virtualization·VoIP
