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Stop Wasting Money on Data Center Power
By Jason Sherman - November 8, 2017Federal government data centers are now required to install DCIM and achieve a power usage effectiveness rate (PUE) of 1.5 or lower thanks to the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI). Why? What’s the push behind this? Data centers use a whole bunch of power (we know, we know: this isn’t a news flash to you)….
Learn MoreNetwork Incidents Made Easy (with the Most Interesting Man in the World)
By Jason Sherman - August 8, 2017>When a device goes down on your network, and you’ve got a network monitoring solution in place, you probably get one of those (incredibly useful) emails that informs you a device is down. Great….which device? Where? While you’re figuring all that out, you’re wasting valuable time (and yeah, you know this: time is money). In…
Learn MoreEyes on your data center operations
By Jan Durnhofer - September 8, 2014Modern data centers have always faced problems of inefficiency, especially as they get larger, adding more and higher capacity hardware. Virtualization has further complicated these problems by adding layers of dynamic environment within a complex computational structure. The inefficiency means wasted capacity, even causing apparent lack of availability when in fact there is plenty. There…
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