It boils down to providing protection for databases during a crucial period of time. Patches are regularly issued by database vendors to address known vulnerabilities in their DBMS software. But for a variety of reasons, enterprises are not always able to install those patches in a timely manner; often, they are not installed at all. Yet, once the patch is released, hackers know about the weakness, and can exploit systems that are not yet patched, gaining access to sensitive records. That’s…

The cost and complexity of managing security requirements in today’s enterprise data centers has created a major need in the marketplace. With new threats emerging all the time, and growing data traffic volumes and bandwidth demands, data center managers are challenged to cost-effectively manage and scale their security infrastructure, without sacrificing the performance-levels required to meet the needs of the business.

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The cost and complexity of managing security requirements in today’s enterprise data centers has created a major need in the marketplace. With new threats emerging all the time, and growing data traffic volumes and bandwidth demands, data center managers are challenged to cost-effectively manage and scale their security infrastructure, without sacrificing the performance-levels required to meet the needs of the business.

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Space is a premium in today’s racks

With today’s increasingly thin and dense servers, the tendency for many IT professionals is to stack more equipment into their racks. Doing so creates new challenges in airflow, power capacity and serviceability. With these thoughts in mind, Crenlo is now offering rack-mounted accessories to help IT managers keep their equipment running smoothly and easily serviceable.…

Why is data replication useful in today's enterprise data centers?

In today's data-driven economy, a few minutes of downtime, or losing a “few” gigabytes of data, can cause substantial financial loss and damage a company's reputation. Enterprises large and small face the challenges of protecting enormous volumes of data, complying with complex regulations, controlling rapid data growth, and managing geographically-dispersed data centers.

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Given the rapid adoption of shared and virtualized infrastructure in the data center environment, a new approach is needed to ensure the effective performance of the IT infrastructure. Rather than monitoring individual nodes and components in the data center in a piecemeal manner, organizations need to monitor the performance of supported services instead - by correlating all the underlying components of the service. The monitoring approach for applications and services has to account for…

Today’s CIOs face many challenges. For example, they are asked to do more with less and must prepare for and become more familiar with rapidly evolving technologies like virtualization, cloud computing, consolidated fabric, etc. I find the relentless demand for increased bandwidth remains a near constant requirement as a fundamental enabler.



Following the formal adoption of 40 and 100 Gb/s Ethernet Standards, the question of upgrading to 40 and 100 Gb/s is no longer…