The “just right” tool for the job: Applying the Goldilocks Rule to your SAP Data Center

For any workload, SAP included, most of us would agree selecting the right tool depends on the task you’re performing.     Knowing which tool, or how much capacity or resource to apply is usually defined by your objective.   Great motivators understand this.  Humans become bored if tasks are too easy, but demotivated if tasks are impossible. […]

Lessons Learned from Testing Cisco EST Implementations with Entrust Datacard

[Note: We would especially like to thank the Entrust Datacard team for their contributions to this post and the fruitful collaboration. More info at Entrust Datacard’s Digital DNA blog series and Twitter handle (@entrustdatacard).] Products and solutions do not operate in silos. In technology, interoperability is a top priority. Thus, making a transition to different communication […]

Democratizing Data Center Storage ¡Viva la Storage Revolución!

History regularly repeats itself. Sometimes it’s exciting and other times not so much. A current market transition I’m excited about happens to be occurring across the entire data center touching compute, storage, and networking. It’s the shift to shared nothing architectures and it takes me back to my studies on high performance computing and how […]

Aligning the Analytics and Data Center Workforce to Evolving Job Roles

In the new digital era, the ability to connect data, processes and experiences are becoming critical elements of successful digital business transformation. Enterprises need to access data from anywhere, analyze it, and make real-time decisions to fuel innovation and accelerate data-driven business outcomes. A 2014 Cisco survey found that 40 percent of enterprises believe that […]

What happens in a “Data Center Day”? (A Data Center Geek’s Version of the “Internet Minute”)

Inspired by Excelacom’s excellent and popular “What happens in an Internet minute” infographic, we’ve put together a nerdier version pertaining to data centers using data from our recent Global Cloud Index along with a few other figures. It’s just as impressive in our view, if a little more obscure. For the two figures in the […]