We can’t stress enough that disaster recovery is more often about maintaining business as usual in the wake of a mundane outage, hardware failure or human error, rather than the more remote probability of a hurricane or flood of biblical proportions.
In my first post, I talked about media conversion at the physical layer. Today I want to talk to you about how to use optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR)-equipped small form-factor pluggables (SFP) to detect fiber breaks.
Multi-tenant data center (MTDC) operators must assess and balance numerous factors when investing in information technology (IT) equipment — including affordability, efficiency, sustainability, reliability, and agility.
As football season gets underway, I’m reminded of a popular saying among NFL coaches, scouts, and players that also applies to another multi-billion dollar industry: data centers.
As social media applications are written and deployed for the transportation, travel, and entertainment markets, the inclusion of video, audio, GPS, and sensor data will continue to challenge IT professionals.
As an IT leader you must manage the complexity and massive integration of systems, processes, and applications, to prevent major outages and instability issues.
Cinderella is no longer just a fairy tale about rags to riches, but has become a sustainability story too — as the clock nears midnight on carbon emissions around the globe.
Media conversion is a critical network function for growing data centers, but too many purchase decisions are based solely on data sheet information or worse yet, from price lists.