Organizational inertia is the single biggest challenge to the embrace of IPv6 in many large telecom companies. Fear, uncertainty and doubt are often factors; indeed, it is often difficult to devote resources to immediate problems, let alone to a problem whose costs will accrue at an unknown time. Another factor is the...

 

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People are often surprised to find that the cost of gathering the IT asset data is often as much as or even more than the cost of the management system itself.

There are several obvious costs. First, there is the cost of the asset management system itself. Add to this the cost of the initial collection and recording of the asset data. Finally, add the cost of performing manual audits of the data on an ongoing basis. In…

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A data center can contain thousands of assets, from servers, storage and network devices to infrastructure support equipment such as Computer Room Air Conditioners, PDUs and UPSs. Keeping track of these assets is an ongoing task faced by data center managers around the world. A Digital Realty Trust survey found that only 26% of data center managers could locate a server that had gone down within minutes. Only 58% could locate the server within 4…

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Throughout the first half of 2011, cyber criminals stunned the business community with unprecedented attacks on industries once thought impregnable. Despite a substantial increase in IT security spending this year – up 4.5 percent from 2010 according to a Morgan Stanley survey – spear-phishing campaigns, security flaws in SecureID tokens, and an increase in Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) have led to successfully executed attacks against companies like Sony, Citigroup, Lockheed Martin,…

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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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ARCELORMITTAL AND CSC SIGN INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGED SERVICES

AGREEMENT IN EUROPE

FALLS CHURCH, Va., July 21 – CSC (NYSE: CSC), a global leader in technology solutions and services, announced today that it has signed a contract with ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT), the world’s leading steel company, to provide information technology (IT) infrastructure managed services. The agreement provides the…

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ARCELORMITTAL AND CSC SIGN INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGED SERVICES

AGREEMENT IN EUROPE

FALLS CHURCH, Va., July 21 – CSC (NYSE: CSC), a global leader in technology solutions and services, announced today that it has signed a contract with ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT), the world’s leading steel company, to provide information technology (IT) infrastructure managed services. The agreement provides the…

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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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Anyone reading a newspaper or watching the evening news is aware of what seems to be a weekly occurrence of major data breaches – recently, Epsilon and Sony have dominated the headlines. The fact is that any type of breach – major or minor – can cause serious damage that will negatively impact the organization for months or even years after the actual incident.

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