How to Create An Eco Datacenter?

February 15th, 2010

Datacenters, while being the nerve center of an organization, are expensive entities to create and maintain. At the same time, datacenters provide ample opportunity for savings, both in terms of budget and the environment. An important step to make datacenters more eco-friendly is to establish a baseline that reduces an organization’s carbon emissions while maintaining [...]

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Tape Encryption and Security

January 21st, 2010

Across numerous data centers around the world, CIOs are leaning towards adopting a tape encryption model for backup and recovery and archiving solutions to meet the growing storage needs of their organizations. Ideally, the tape system must be able to handle the daily and weekly demands of the data center, have sufficient speeds to complete [...]

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Disk-based Backup

January 19th, 2010

For years magnetic tape has dominated the data storage domain in the outsourcing and offshore development industry. Due to its cost-effective procurement and maintenance, these tapes were the de-facto standard for most organizations. However, with the rapid growth of data in organizations and the need for faster data retrieval techniques, the dependency on magnetic tapes [...]

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Optimize Data Center Design Using Simulation

December 24th, 2009

Global companies have expanded their use of strategic technology for competitive advantage.  Automating business processes and increased investments in additional IT resources is creating a strain on the supporting data center’s energy, cooling, and space resources.  The entire business is threatened by the potential IT risks.
A IT research center has predicted that by next year [...]

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In- and Out-bound Protection of Data in Motion

December 24th, 2009

Data security requires bi-directional protection for data in motion.  Companies must not only protect against malware and hacker attacks from outside the enterprise coming through email and the web browsers, they must also ensure that sensitive data is not allowed to escape the enterprise in violation of compliance regulations or corporate privacy policies.  GSS America [...]

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New Trends in Data Center Design

December 18th, 2009

How Will IT Organizations Adapt in 2009?

In 2009, organizations will face more decision when selecting their computing platforms for business services.  They will have to consider the value of building and managing their own data centers in house versus either using a traditional outsourced service provider, or leveraging a cloud computing provider.  GSS America [...]

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Prioritize Your Application Portfolio to Optimize Costs

December 17th, 2009

The role of application portfolio management and its related disciplines, continuous rationalization and optimization has one purpose: prioritization. Unfortunately, that goal is often overlooked as the architects and application owners that are put in charge of application rationalization/optimization do what they do best: architect. It is simply too tempting for those types to resist the [...]

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Implement ECM to Lower Costs and Achieve Compliance

December 16th, 2009

In today’s business environment, effective management of paper records is a challenge.  Executing the requirements for information lifecycle management, including compliance, privacy, and information governance, is almost impossible if the organization’s system is paper-based.  By transitioning to electronic processes, benefits accrue to the organization’s bottom line, as well as helping the environment.
An enterprise content management [...]

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Blade Servers Enhance Mission Critical Data Centers

December 15th, 2009

Information technology managers are assigning more mission-critical computing workloads to blade server systems today.  Blades are the fastest-selling product segment in the global server market as their multicore processors and virtualized software increase computing power and enable their infrastructure density to grow.  As GSS America Infotech, a datacenter management and consolidation services company, works with [...]

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Emerging Virtualization Technology Announced

December 8th, 2009

Across the board, technology companies have seen double-digit sales declines in the current economic recession.  One area, however, seems to be immune to budget cuts.   Virtualization technology providers are experiencing strong sales because of the fast ROI their solutions achieve and, as a result, have continued to invest heavily in product research and development.  GSS [...]

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