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Space-Based Storage Prepares for Launch

Diminishing returns on costly data center investments—facilities already bulging at the seams—are engendering novel architectures for storing data. Early prototypes such as Microsoft’s submersible data center addre Read more…

Switch Vendor Looks to Unclog Data

Big data and cloud migrations are reshaping the datacenter as more servers are linked and bandwidth capacity joins scaling as essential requirements. Those needs are creating opportunities for network gear vendors as dat Read more…

Data Science Helps Troubleshoot the Datacenter

Data science is being enlisted to help troubleshoot scaled-up IT infrastructure. A data science platform unveiled this week by startup BigPanda seeks to use analytics to automate the increasingly complicated task of I Read more…

Implementing an On Demand Data Center

As the data processing and storage needs change over time for businesses, so too must the nature of their data centers. As such, Jon Hudson and Pete Moyer of the Brocade Global Solutions Architecture Team say they are working toward an on-demand, faster and more responsive data center. Read more…

UPS Delivers on Prescriptive Analytics

With the world's largest DB2 database and one of the most complex logistics operations in the Fortune 500, UPS certainly has a big data story to tell. According to their operations lead, however, "big data" is nothing new. He discussed with us how the company is optimizing using some unique.... Read more…

Chips, Stats & Stones: A Morning with SAS CEO Dr. Jim Goodnight

Last week, we sat down for a recorded interview with Dr. James Goodnight, CEO and co-founder of the SAS Institute that is shared here, but more importantly, we spent time on the campus, riding around with Dr. Goodnight, poking into a $70 million datacenter, and chatting about what really excites him; chips, stats and rocks.... Read more…

Harnessing Predictive Analytics for Infrastructure Monitoring

In this article, Rajib Rashid, CTO at Zyrion, argues that predictive analytics can be highly valuable within the IT and cloud datacenter. The ability to dynamically assign or reduce computing power, and that too with the luxury of distributed.... Read more…

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