Just returned from an Amazing AFCOM show in Vegas... big shout out to all the wonderful people I met... Vendors and potential Clients!  We doubled our booth size for next year in fact!  Great fun and Great Show!

I am just planning the next meetings of our data center expert group for may and june in Frankfurt, Germany.

There are actually 3 working groups:

• data center infrastructure
• IT processes
• sustainable IT management

If you would like to participate or present please contact me. We have about 40 attendees each meeting in average (focus on data center operators, DC architects, planner…

Companies spanning multiple industries – including education, financial and healthcare – are turning to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a way to improve their operational efficiencies and bottom line. VDI enables IT to provision and deploy new desktops faster; replace traditional desktops with more cost effective thin clients; as well as enhance overall security by centralizing system administration.



Yet many deployments have been fraught with difficulty – frequently…

Companies spanning multiple industries – including education, financial and healthcare – are turning to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a way to improve their operational efficiencies and bottom line. VDI enables IT to provision and deploy new desktops faster; replace traditional desktops with more cost effective thin clients; as well as enhance overall security by centralizing system administration.



Yet many deployments have been fraught with difficulty – frequently…

Tape is like insurance. You’re tempted to save a few bucks by doing without it, but the cost of not having it when you need it can be catastrophic. Without a tape backup solution, or with the wrong tape backup solution, a company can lose access to data and either fire their IT manager, face severe regulatory fines for not being able to reproduce data, or flat out go out-of-business. Tape is rarely top of mind to an IT manager. An IT manager is more likely thinking about server performance,…

Over the course of the last 5-10 years, IT organizations from the smallest of the SMB to the largest of the Enterprise have become dependent upon remote access tools to manage their servers and devices. The problem, however, is that these tools were adopted by different groups within the organization, without a clear strategy (i.e., the Windows team adopted IP KVM and RDP, while the network team bought console servers and adopted SSH).



Over time, the vast majority of IT departments…

• Be flexible to adapt to changing requirements and technology
• Be reliable in supporting customer processing
• Be maintainable, so as to retain design reliability over time
• Include vendor-neutral solutions to encourage competitive procurement
• Be well-documented and understood by…

Disasters and Business Continuity Management (2) -

By Roberto Sánchez, RCDD

At this point after almost two weeks after the Great Tsunami in Japan, we have seen in the media everything that is going in Fukushima.

At this point we have heard about water contamination issues, a reduction in meals, however we have not hear yet a cease of communication or downtime –severe- in the Japanese telecommunication nor other industry.…

Despite significant investments directed at avoiding downtime, businesses continue to suffer significant outages. Often, these outages are due to factors beyond their control and are fundamentally due to the complexity and fragility of the typical application infrastructure stack. The TransLattice Application Platform (TAP) provides a new way of delivering business-critical applications that eliminates any single point of failure and dramatically reduces the complexity of implementing and…