A number of factors could make increased data center construction and renovations increasingly likely.
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Dealing with disaster recovery in a data center cloud environment.
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The data center of tomorrow will look different from today's rack-filled halls.
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As servers, storage, and networking become more tightly integrated, the data center will be in need of a new super administrator.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed an executive order requiring California to reduce the total amount of data center square footage used by state agencies.
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The company sees a need for 100-Gigabit Ethernet, some upgrades need 1 Terabit.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 lets you downgrade the current edition, if there was an equivalent offering in a prior version of Windows Server.
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Cover Your Assets: It's time to face the ugly truth about your data center, aka 'baby.' Things may seem pristine on the surface, but despite the neatly organized racks, and fans blowing and lights blinking, everything is a mess. Here's one company's tale.
Tags : Windows, data center, Windows Server 2008, cost management, data center management

Cover Your Assets: A new data center trend might be your light at the end of the tunnel.
Tags : data center, frugality, data center management, lights out management

Hard-Core Hardware: The age of solar power is fast arriving, and it may be keeping the lights on in a data center near you. The former downsides, chiefly cost constraints, no longer apply.
Tags : data center, hardware, green, Green IT, solar power

Hard-Core Hardware: Fragmentation may not cut it as a big screen villain, but it remains a threat and handicap to optimal server performance. In this era of massive hard drives and virtualization, minimizing fragmentation is more critical than ever.
Tags : data center, fragmentation, defragmentation, defrag, data center management

OS Roundup: As idyllic as it may seem, it's hard to see how any overly controlled and closed system, a la Apple, would ever triumph over an open system like that of Linux in the long term.
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Cover Your Assets: Do you really need all those servers? Could you do just as well with half of them, or as few as a third?
Tags : virtualization, data center, hardware, consolidation, frugality

Building a data center from scratch doesn't just mean getting the latest in gear. It also brings with it the latest power, cooling and data center design. Here's what one company did.
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Hard-Core Hardware: It isn't often a data center gets to install the latest in servers, blades, storage and networking gear from Day One. Yet the Emerson data center in St. Louis, Missouri had just that opportunity.
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Hard-Core Hardware: The software mainframe is a key component of the data center of the future.
Tags : data center, mainframe, VMware, virtualization