1. Growing Data Management Nightmare: Unstructured Rich Media
This may seem counterintuitive, but for most enterprise workers, data infrastructure is not a major concern. Individual business units may place an extremely high value on their actual data, but the underlying framework to keep it readily available? That's IT's job.
2. Peeking Under the Hood of Your Data Center
In many ways, managing a data center is like maintaining a car. You need to periodically peek under the hood to make sure that everything is in good working order. Here are the questions to ask to gauge the health of your center. This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.
3. The Ghost of ITIL Past
Ivor took Brandon by the hand and led him through the mists of time to an earlier IT world... which gave rise to the first problem, because the secure access to the data center meant Brandon couldn't tail gate him… Once that hurdle had been surmounted they surveyed the scene in front of them.
4. IT pointers for governments in 2011
The following are some end-of-year suggestions from Herndon, Va.-based CDW-G to keep IT operations in local and state governments running smoothly and effectively. The company, which provides technology products and services to government, education and healthcare customers, holds hundreds of contracts and preferred vendor awards for federal, state and local governments.
5. How to make data centres energy efficient
Data centres house computers and provide them with operation and control power. They do everything from delivering tweets, serving web pages to your smart-phone through to logistics systems and supercomputers for scientific research.
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