What Does It Take to Be HIPAA-Compliant in the Cloud?
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which was enacted into law in 1996. It defines how a patient’s protected health information (PHI) can be used and to whom it can be...
View ArticleDoes Telecommuting Hurt Productivity?
The increasing power of mobile computing, along with cloud services and the capability to videoconference remotely from almost anywhere, means that many workers have everything they need to do their...
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Industry Perspective: The Software-Defined Data Center
Industry Perspective is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry...
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Industry Perspective: Network Security Threats
Industry Perspective is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry...
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The 10 Commandments of Off-Site Modular Data Center Construction
Is your bible on data center construction up to date? Unlike ancient texts, the guiding principles for new data center construction aren’t timeless. In fact, they are evolving rapidly as data center...
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Are Overlays the End of Old-School Networking Principles?
The word “overlay” is a bit generic. I apply the term “L2 overlay” to any overlay technology that builds virtual L2 networks on top of a physical network. L2 overlays happen to be built on top of L3/L4...
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Industry Perspective: Remote Data Center Sites for Disaster Recovery
Industry Perspective is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry...
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Carrier-Neutral Meet-Me Rooms for the Data Center
This article offers information to help create and manage a connection point between service providers and clients in the data center environment. There is some confusion regarding the terms associated...
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Industry Perspective: The Just-in-Time Data Center
Industry Perspective is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry...
View ArticleData Center Management
Data center management refers to a small number of employees who have been designated and hired to manage large data sets and hardware systems that are usually part of a large distributed network. The...
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New Categories for Data Center Best Practices (Part 1)
Energy-Management Innovations Redefine Disaster Recovery Practices The economic recovery is underway, albeit at a slow pace, and many regions are also recovering from the impacts of major natural...
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The Role of Physical Server Security in Data Center Management
The world today is connected through the many forms of information and communications technology. One person may be surfing on Facebook while sending business files over secure Wi-Fi links at a café...
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New Categories for Data Center Best Practices (Part 2)
Power Capping Puts IT Back in Control Part One of this series, “Energy Management Innovations Redefine DR Practices,” explained how data center technology advancements have changed disaster recovery...
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Industry Perspective: Data Center Security Market
Industry Perspective is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry...
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New Categories for Data Center Best Practices (Part 3)
A Warm Front is Hitting Data Centers Parts One and Two of this series explained how new energy-management methodologies and approaches have changed best practices relating to disaster recovery and...
View ArticleDell Active Fabric Manager For Networks
Dell has announced its network fabric called Dell Active Fabric Manager which will help in creating LAN and SAN converged network management and control infrastructure. The industry is moving towards...
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The KSS Principle: Keep Storage Simple(r)
Experts like to talk about the big trends driving the storage industry—trends like automation, flash and convergence. Although these trends are important, there are just two points for storage...
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The Birth and Death of Big Data
The era of big data is upon us. IBM estimates that 90% of the data in the world today was created in the last two years alone.[1] By 2020, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that the...
View ArticleBoston and Data Center Disaster Preparedness
Although the Boston Marathon bombing may be raising awareness of manmade disasters as a threat to data centers, a much different danger seems to have emerged from the situation. But is there anything...
View ArticleMind the Gap: Network Visibility and Programmability Are Essential to...
Thanks to virtualization, server systems administrators have become the heroes of IT. They’ve saved the organization money and they’ve become more responsive to business needs. Meanwhile, developers...
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