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Data Analytics/BigPanda: Enabling Even More Effective Data Center Scale-Ups by Applying Data Science

By Dick Weisinger

Data centers have changed dramatically over the last decade.  In many cases, while the number of servers and overall complexity of the data center have grown dramatically, the size of the IT staff that’s managing the center hasn’t changed at…

Storage: Enterprise Hard Disk Drives Lose Out to Consumer Ones

By Dick Weisinger

Think that all hard drives are just a commodity and brand doesn’t really matter?  Or that if you’re willing to spend more for quality that it’s better to buy ‘enterprise ready’ drives as opposed to ‘consumer’ ones? That may not…

Data Centers: Ripe for Dramatic Changes

By Dick Weisinger

Data Center spending is expected to exceed $143 billion this year.  And with huge growth of applications and infrastructure moving to the cloud, the future of data center spending looks rosy.  But Gartner warns that the rosy expectations are likely…

Security: Google and Dropbox Announce ‘Simply Secure’ Initiative

By Dick Weisinger

In collaboration with Open Technology, Google and Dropbox have announced an open-source initiative called ‘Simply Secure’.  The goal of the project is to make security technology easier to use and more transparent.  As the first step towards realizing that goal,…

US Federal Cloud Computing: Now Represents 5 Percent of Total IT Budget

By Dick Weisinger

Last year the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) forecast that the federal government would spend roughly $2.2 billion on cloud computing in 2014.  Three-quarters of the way through the year though, spending is now closer to be nearly $3…