Tag: #DataCentre
Cloud and the SMB manufacturer
InsightaaS: SMB manufacturing is an essential segment in the Canadian economy. In 2014, manufacturing was the largest goods-producing sector in Canada, representing $173 billion...
VMware hybrid cloud aims at silencing 'network trombones'
Cloud news at VMworld 2015 confirmed the currency of two themes that have steered the cloud discourse over the past couple of years: the...
Micro data centres doing the bridgework for IoT
The fight for data centre efficiency is a never ending one. Yet despite the best laid plans, data centre architectures continue to go through...
Building bimodal bridges
Gartner has applied a simple framework to complex IT reality. Separating the enterprise into “bimodal” IT operation, Gartner researchers claim that 75 percent of...
Revisiting the open organization
As former president of IDC Canada and marketing director with the Canada Systems Group, reviewer Paul Kennedy has long term experience with both technology...
Microgrids: integration for power cost and control
Context: microgrid and data center synergies
Autonomous energy networks that integrate distributed power resources, matching this with local energy loads to service localized demand, microgrids...
CenturyLink builds in central Washington
CenturyLink is on the move again, this time into central Washington with this month’s announcement of a new data centre at Moses Lake. Designed...
Beyond Convergence 1.0: the Nutanix private cloud-in-a-box
Converged infrastructure is attracting a lot of attention in industry circles as the key means to reducing IT complexity in the data centre. But...
New power solutions, new presentation at DCD
Edgar Dales’ ‘cone of experience’ has inspired education researchers since 1946 to explore the effectiveness of various approaches to knowledge transfer. When numbers are...
Hyperscale to enterprise Main street
InsightaaS: Martyn Jackson is a senior solutions architect with Dell’s Enterprise Systems Group and a 10 year Dell veteran. With over 25 years of...
OpenStack, converged infrastructure and enterprise IT: integration is king
One needs to look no further for evidence that solution selling is still alive and well than the hyper-successful phenomenon of converged infrastructure. Converged...
DCIM: An ‘Operating System’ for the Data Center
Context: the evolution of DCIM scope
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is a powerful management solution with a complex provenance. Rooted in building automation, computer-based...
IBM Opens SoftLayer cloud centre in Montréal
IBM opened its newest SoftLayer data centre in Drummondville, just outside of Montreal, Quebec this past week. Just six months after launching its Toronto...
451 Research: Uptime Institute finds datacenters still differentiated by vision, design...
InsightaaS: In the spirit of the Uptime Institute’s founding raison d’etre – the sharing of best practice in data centre design, technology and operation,...
Apto’s reuse, recycle business is booming
‘Apto’ is Latin for “to adapt, to adjust, to accommodate”: it is also the name of an emerging company in the ITAD space. For...
