As this unusual year draws to a close, experts discuss how the role of IT professionals continues to change due to AI and automation – and explain what's on the horizon for 2021. IT professionals have seen their jobs shift significantly in recent years due to a variety of factors, including an increasing amount of [...]
"Never in my career did I dream that the supply chains for cleaning supplies would be absolutely critical to our operations,” Digital Realty’s head of procurement Brent Shinall told us in a July DCD keynote speech about the changes the Covid-19 pandemic has brought about within his company and the data center industry. How big [...]
The COVID-19 outbreak has catalyzed operational changes for data centres, as it has across almost every industry. Keeping on-site IT support to a minimum is now a greater priority, as physical distancing continues to be required. That leaves data centres more reliant on remote management and monitoring of IT infrastructure while seeking ways to automate [...]
If you decide to grow your knowledge of software-defined data centre technologies, VMware, Nuage Networks and Microsoft offer courses and certifications to get you up to speed. As virtualization becomes more prevalent in data centres, it's important that you keep your technology knowledge bank up to date. Though you can do your own research, it [...]
Big data is making headway in every corner of the business world. Industries worldwide have seen a substantial increase in volume, variety and velocity of data. Each passing year witnesses almost two-fold increase in data most of which comes from IoT. According to IDC, worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics will grow more [...]
How can your company modernize its digital strategy to be more competitive? That's an excellent question, and I think it's one that not enough CEOs are asking themselves, their boards, or their leadership teams. There was some interesting research that came out a little while ago from Forrester, the market research company. They found that [...]
When one thinks about home and family security, the first thought is to take up residence in a secure location—ideally, a guarded and gated community. The second is to carefully secure the perimeter of the house: the doors and windows—the points of ingress. Sensors are wired to each opening, cameras and motion detectors are aimed [...]
Global acceptance of digital commerce, cloud, managed, and networked services and the resultant need to rapidly conduct business across a constantly changing landscape of providers, applications, and services has businesses scrambling to keep up. Businesses are transforming into smart users of connected devices, applications and technologies and yet the metrics that are used to monitor [...]
Data centre administrators have a long to-do list when it comes to infrastructure monitoring. From server and equipment monitoring -- and in some cases, mainframe monitoring -- it's a practice that's often difficult to juggle, especially if you work in a large data centre. But monitoring is an essential task. By obtaining the data you [...]
Over-provisioning, viewed in data centre design and management as something between a best practice and a necessary evil, has been built into the industry’s collective psyche because of its core mission to maintain uptime, at all costs. If a data centre team spends more than it really has to, it needs to improve efficiency, but [...]
