| InfoWorld Daily AM | | | Are you a devoted disciple of computational logic or just a chimp who types those funny brackets and variable names until the thing seems to work? Take our quiz to find out. | | | Issue highlights 1. The big shift in business technology 2. Don't count on consistent server performance in the cloud 3. The modern data center's hidden risks: 2 key lessons | | White Paper: Riverbed Technology A new kind of storage architecture allows IT to consolidate remote servers and data in the data center by decoupling storage from its server over any distance--even thousands of miles--and still get the same performance as if the storage remained local to the branch. Read more >> | | As the autonomous IT department fractures and more businesses opt for cloud or professional services, we invite you to tell us all about how your own organization is changing. READ MORE | | The ability to quickly provision, clone, and deploy servers to address capacity issues is a definite plus in the cloud. However, there is a downside that needs to be understood: the fact that, in many cases, cloud server instances can exhibit wildly different performance metrics, measured from second to second. READ MORE | | As modern data center infrastructures become more complex and interdependent, it's harder to know when a failure of one component will affect others. READ MORE | | White Paper: Riverbed Technology Even as enterprises focus relentlessly on consolidation of data centers, they continue to aggressively expand the roles and numbers of branch offices, often located in remote locations that are difficult to support and protect. That poses the issue of how to protect data on the edge of the network, which may be subject to a variety of risks. Read more >> | | | | |
