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Colo Data Centers – Peter Panfil, Vice President, Global Power at Emerson Network Power, says: Compared to traditional power system architectures such as 2N or 2N+1, a reserve power system architecture offers comparable availability, greater efficiency and scalability, and higher resource utilization at lower cost. Reserve architectures also can be designed to enable rapid deployment and modular growth. These benefits have ... Read More »

- Christian Ehrenthal, CEO at GridVision, says: Managed service providers (MSPs) and small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are struggling to effectively and efficiently allocate limited IT budgets, hindered by time-consuming and repetitive IT tasks. To address this market need, GridVision recently announced its company launch and the availability of its SaaS-based beta solution. GridVision offers an innovative, first-ever approach to IT service ... Read More »

  Callidus Software Inc. a global leader in cloud-based sales, marketing and learning solutions, announced today plans to establish a data center in Canada to serve customers to serve its growing base of customers. “Our announcement of the new data center underscores our commitment to supporting our growing customer ecosystem in Canada,” said Jimmy Duan, SVP and chief technology officer, CallidusCloud. ... Read More »

top 10 technologies – Bill Kleyman, a veteran technologist with experience in data center design, management, and deployment, says: By now we’ve gone through most, if not all, of our budgets and we are setting plans for the future. As we look back on the past two years we see a direct acceleration in the IT world. Users are connecting in ... Read More »

– Mark Haslam, blog writer for vXchnge, says: Kurt Marko with InformationWeek recently joked; hybrid cloud is more popular than a Prius on Earth Day because it promises “an optimal mix of the best features from competing technologies [public and private cloud]”. Public cloud Most of us are familiar with public cloud. If you’ve used online applications like Gmail, Dropbox, ... Read More »

 Tianjin Data Center – Joanna Styczen, Technical Writing Director, iMiller Public Relations, says: Beijing is one of the hottest areas for economic activity in China.  But despite being one of the country’s largest economic hubs, its current ban on data center construction due to heavy pollution and power controls has impacted the availability of infrastructure needed to power today’s heavy ... Read More »

  Machine Data Analytics – Puneet Pandit, CEO and co-founder of Glassbeam, Inc. The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating a new world of connected devices. Businesses generate immense data – in all formats. Because of this, the next frontier in IoT will be analytics. As the volume and variety of IoT-connected devices and machines grow dramatically, business users are ... Read More »

Cloud Outage  – James Bourne, Technology journalist, writer and blogger, says: Microsoft Azure cloud storage went down for several hours overnight knocking various sites and services offline, with the tech giant blaming the fault on an undetected bug during testing. The incident can be located on the Azure status history page, under ‘Multiple Azure Services’ and multiple regions. “From 19 Nov ... Read More »

Knowledge is Power – Xuhua Bao, Hai Hong, Zhihua Cao, of NSFOCUS, say: Australian Data Center Micron21 recently detected a sophisticated new DDoS threat that it named Combination Distributed Reflective Denial of Service (CDRDoS). The attack reached speeds of 40+gbits internationally and over 1.2gbits domestically. CDRDoS uses a combination of UDP attack vectors simultaneously, from a single attack tool. The ... Read More »

- Steve Ehrlich, SVP of Marketing for Space-Time Insight, says: What has happened in the past, is happening now and what might happen in the future By definition, situational intelligence implies several things: First, “situation” suggests an understanding of what has happened in the past, what is happening now and what might happen in the future. Next, since situations are inherently complex, ... Read More »