Temperature monitoring throughout the data center facilitates efficient, cost effective cooling without risking hot spots and downtime.



Cooling costs in the data center can comprise a substantial portion of an IT department’s operating expenses. While guidelines for temperatures are slowly increasing and cooling solutions become more efficient, inadequate cooling still poses a serious threat to uptime and reliability. Simply overcompensating by lowering overall temperature is a…

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...The fact that so many cloud providers – large and small – have no interest in managing privileged identities and segregating duties to limit access to sensitive data and systems should give customers pause before putting their most precious data and resources in the hands of many providers.

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Organizations that are seeking to deploy “cloud” based business models for their infrastructure face unique capacity management challenges. This post will review these challenges to enable cloud providers, either public or private, to avoid the pitfalls of improper capacity management. While the post discusses both types of clouds, the needs of private cloud providers will be especially highlighted due to the unique challenges they face with this business model.…



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