Data center managers will face a lot of challenges over the next few years. In many facilities, three pressing problems need to be solved in the immediate future: limited power, increasing cooling demands, and space constraints.
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You are probably well aware of the challenges facing data centers today. A full 17 percent of IT budgets are devoted to storage,1 and power and cooling costs represent as much as 40 percent of operational expenses. And that’s just today. Corporate data is expected to increase by 650 percent in just five years, from 2009 to 2015.
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One of the greatest challenges for data center operators today is the increasing cost of power and cooling as a portion of the total cost of operation. Power and cooling costs indata centers have risen sharply over the past several years—as much as 400 percent in the span of a decade.1 In many data centers, […]
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This guide is designed to help you better evaluate different cloud technology vendors and service providers based on a series of questions posed to three cloud infrastructure providers, three managed or hosted infrastructure providers, and three cloud technology providers. Their answers include: Descriptions of the security components of the current offerings, including solution architecture and […]
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For many businesses, transitioning to an enterprise private cloud to improve storage efficiency can require extensive amounts of time and planning. Evaluating which technology best fits your enterprise can be complex, but it’s crucial in ensuring a successful transition. Access this white paper to learn how implementing cloud storage metrics can help you choose the […]
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While businesses strive to find ways to deliver the most efficient cloud deployment possible in their enterprise, the security issues can make it difficult. IT professionals can utilize deployment platforms to mitigate the challenges that arise in a cost-effective manner. Access this exclusive resource to discover how to effectively balance cloud security and network performance. […]
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To respond to rapid business environmental changes, enterprises are now adopting a more agile and services-oriented model for centralized IT, often characterized as “private cloud.” Public cloud service providers have become adept at adding new customers, new applications, and more compute-intensive workloads with minimal delay. While traditional enterprise IT may not be able to fully […]
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Storage virtualization has moved from “nice-to-have” to “must-have” status. This paper introduces storage virtualization and surveys the challenges that it can help to solve in the critical areas of engineering, operational and financial efficiency.
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The primary challenge when virtualizing Tier 1 applications is storage performance. Learn how to get around I/O bottlenecks and eliminate downtime risk.
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