Why a hybrid model is better than 100% Cloud
CIO The main reasons are security and compliance. A hybrid infrastructure offers the best of both worlds: the security of on-premise data storage and the flexibility of public cloud. Gartner predicts that almost half of large enterprises will have deployed hybrid clouds by the end of 2017. Their main motivation will not be cost, but agility.

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Data Center Infrastructure Management software is considered a transformational technology in the data center today. Take the example of British Airways. They implemented the dcTrack DCIM solution across six locations. “The new software allows us to quickly allocate space for new servers, manage power and network connectivity, issue work orders and provide capacity planning across all data centers,” says Keith Bott, Service Manager, British Airways.

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“Tools and Processes Are Critical for the Data Center”
Raritan Tan Choon Huat, the manager of the regional data center facilities of an insurance major in Singapore, talks to Hot Aisle about how the IT infrastructure domain has evolved, and what’s up ahead.

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Take a Tour of an Underground Data Center
Data Center Knowledge Data centers are built for all sorts of disasters and environmental controls. This Iron Mountain data center is 220 ft below the ground, and naturally protected from disasters like storms and earthquakes. Geothermal cooling, limestone walls and an underground acquifer keep the ambient temperatures at 52 degrees. Take a look.

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PDUs and fitness? Well…!

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With PDU chassis available in several colors, identifying and locating power distribution pathways and differentiating between PDUs in a rack becomes really simple.

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VMware bets big on its software-defined data center vision
  VMware has indicated that it is building capacities in India to hone the storage and network virtualization capabilities for software defined data center.
Does Salesforce1 meet the needs of Indian enterprises?
  Salesforce.com announced the release of their new mobility and apps oriented Salesforce1 platform. They have not yet made any announcements regarding the data scalability issues faced by enterprises in nations such as India.
Sify opens fifth data center in Noida
  Constructed at a cost of $30 million in the first phase, the green data centre is design-certified as Tier III by the Uptime Institute, a certification firm.
Pacnet appoints Keith Russell Shaw as Director of Data Center Sales for carrier market
  Keith Russell Shaw will be based in Hong Kong overseeing all data center requirements for Pacnet’s global carrier customers.
HP unveils big data analytics platform
  HP has announced HAVEn, a set of core technologies that form a Big Data analytics platform, enabling organizations to create next-generation applications and solutions to accelerate the adoption and monetization of Big Data.
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