Scaling Out Strategically
November 11, 2007
When we launched the Scale Out Advantage site about a year ago, our goal was to explore and discuss ways to make the data center more efficient. Read full blog »

How to cut costs and save the world
August 28, 2007
Over the past year, this website has devoted a lot of space to virtualization, underscoring our belief that this is one of those technologies that’s indispensable to the scale-out philosophy. Read full blog »

Planting the Seeds for Datacenter Greenery
July 17, 2007
The mantra for true believers in the Scale-Out Advantage is one simple word: consolidation. Read full blog »

Scale Out Zen — Do More with Less
June 26, 2007
As Master Kan might have said to Caine, “The wise IT manager must seek to do more with less, Grasshopper.” Read full blog »

iSCSI...About to Go Mainstream?
June 14, 2007
Who can predict which technologies of interest will mature and become widely adopted, and which will languish on the periphery for a short while before fading into obscurity? Read full blog »

Is Your Data Center in a State of Quiet Desperation?
May 30, 2007
As I troll the Web, checking out the blogs of IT movers and shakers across the country, one thing becomes clear: many data centers exist in a state of quiet desperation. Read full blog »

EPA Data Center Guidelines: IT Power Use Is in the Spotlight
May 17, 2007
Think EPA and what comes to mind? Automobile emissions, nuclear waste, water pollution. All correct, but don't stop there. Read full blog »

Virtualized Data Needs Protection, Too
May 9, 2007
One of the most exciting trends in IT over the past year has been the adaptation of virtualization from test and development environments to actual production systems. Read full blog »

Disaster Recovery on the Back Burner? Careful, It May Catch on Fire
Apr. 19, 2007
I've been reading up on disaster recovery lately, and what's struck me is that events that can disrupt business—or even severely threaten their existence—can take an amazing variety of forms. Read full blog »

Professional Help for the Data Center
Apr. 11, 2007
If data centers had emotions, many of them would be feeling stressed-out these days.  Stuffed with high-density rack-mounted servers, switches and other IT equipment, today’s data centers are frequently straining the limits of heating and cooling capacity and could certainly benefit from some professional help. Read full blog »

Survey Shows Virtualization Taking Off
Mar. 27, 2007
Bonus question time: Guess which technology is viewed as being so critical to enterprise IT infrastructures that nearly nine out of 10 companies have implemented or plan to implement it? Read full blog »

Tackling Data Protection Alphabet Soup
Mar. 14, 2007
When you start to drill down, you quickly realize that there's nothing simple about technology. Read full blog »

The Cost of Not Protecting Data
Mar. 7, 2007
Remember how 10 or 12 years ago, in the early days of personal computing, you'd back up that Word doc or Quicken file by copying it onto a floppy and stashing it in a desk drawer? Read full blog »

Going Green to Conserve Energy in the Data Center
Feb. 28, 2007
High-tech consortiums may come and go, usually without much fanfare, but a non-profit group dedicated to finding ways to conserve energy in the data center has opened its doors for business, and I think the event calls for at least a trombone, flugelhorn and a couple of drums. Read full blog »

Global Warming in the Data Center
Jan. 30, 2007
Just as rising temperatures across the planet are threatening ecosystems and changing weather patterns, data centers today are finding themselves in an environmental dilemma. Read full blog »

Open Standards Is for Systems Management Too
Dec. 2, 2006
As we talk about industry standards and how they enable scaling out an IT environment, it's easy to think in terms of hardware. Read full blog »

Virtually Ready for Primetime
Nov. 22, 2006
Virtualization is one of those technologies that always sounded great in theory, but left a lot of enterprises shaking their heads when it came to using it in a production environment. Read full blog »

Technology No Substitute for Communication
Nov. 14, 2006
As companies seek to optimize their data centers, it's tempting to focus on technology and the various ways of deploying it to best support the enterprise's mission. Read full blog »

Running a Data Center? What's Your Problem?
Oct. 16, 2006
Just as rising temperatures across the planet are threatening ecosystems and changing weather patterns, data centers today are finding themselves in an environmental dilemma. Read full blog »