Nearly 70% of a recently surveyed audience of IT professionals cited that their current configuration management approach is inadequate for meeting the needs of today's ever changing IT operations.

The global survey carried out by Evolven during a recent webinar conducted with Forrester Research reflects the growing frustration by IT Operations management with the current approaches for managing configurations in increasingly complex and dynamic data centers. The surveyed audience…

Benjamin Franklin once said, "The only things certain in life are death and taxes”. 

Currently, the hot topic of discussion in Australia is the Australian carbon tax. The ramifications of this tax are not yet fully understood and the various political parties and independents who are negotiating the…

Hopefully, with your help, we are going to maintain neutral list of what you, our members consider the most informative blogs in the data center industry!

We have started off with a list of what we think are the 50 most informative blogs on the net based on:

• Quality of information…

We hope you like the look of the new features that allow you to easily find & connect with industry subject matter experts.  This is partial view of what you get if you search for SMEs on the network.  

If the 'expert' in question…

I am not quite sure if this organization has reliazed all the issues that the actual DCs have to take in consideration, more than a bycicle booth for storage (by the way I like to biking).



At least six different systems are included in the DCs



*  Architecture  (well described in the draft)



* Cooling (not only natural -free cooling- but liquid and of course electromechanical -HVAC- have to be considered)



* Energy ( I think renewable and electric load have…

During a conversation at one of the major data center conferences this year it struck me that there are a wide range of options available to data center managers when selecting development for some of their key assets - their staff!

When I asked the head of data centers at a well known company why they choose a specific vendors training for their staff it became evident that they weren't fully aware of the many training options available to them. It also made me think that I really…