Tech LIFT

A variety of interesting stories, from network innovations to dealing with devices, make up the compelling data center management and IT news of the week.

How Hyper-scale Data Center Management Affects the Industry Data center management is increasingly a customized, granular affair, due to additional opportunities available in tailored construction technologies and operational styles. Led by innovators such as Google, Intel, Apple and Facebook, other enterprises have started to step up their game. The enterprise data center is becoming less … Read more

With the holiday season right around the corner, many companies are putting the finishing touches on this year’s big projects or looking ahead to data center management and IT strategies for next year.

What it’s like to Work inside a Data Center Data Centers are cold, dry and generally very loud places to visit, let along work at. As much as we rely on these heavily secured facilities it’s easy to forget about the technicians who spend hours a day inside a server room. These unsung heroes are … Read more

The first full week in November saw significant and surprising developments in a number of ongoing data center management and IT stories.

Data centers looking to further green initiatives and lower annual electricity bills may want to incorporate solar energy as part of a tiered approach to powering data center equipment.

Server virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN) can dramatically reduce the amount of IT equipment in the data center, but the likelihood of either technology completely eliminating hardware’s centrally important role in such environments is low.

Thanks to the country’s abundance of renewable energy sources and cool climate, Iceland has emerged over the past few years as one of the top data center relocation spots in the world.

Data centers should place more storage into a single blade enclosure.

Before obtaining a server chassis, data centers should consider its size, how it keeps components cool and how secure it is.