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Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros

Network World

This is the highest positive reversal swing over two consecutive calendar quarters since 2006. According to Foote Partners third quarter skills and certifications report , the average market value for 632 IT certifications increased nearly 1% in the second quarter of 2024 following a 1.3%

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Expedient: The well-known hybrid cloud leader has a recommendation for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Expedient’s relationship with VMware goes back to 2006 when the Pittsburgh-head quartered managed service provider (MSP) embraced the virtualization of workloads in its first data center. Just as importantly, Rosenson believes people will also play a key role.

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Fountainhead: The Rise of the Cloud Service Bus

Fountainhead

for billing, showback and/or chargeback) - Disaster Recovery / Redundant service sources where needed. ► 2006. (2). SLA) monitoring - Cost and budget tracking (i.e. Some would call the above integration functions "Glue Logic." ► August. (3). ► July. (1). ► June. (2). ► May. (2). ► April. (4).

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure, Part 3

Fountainhead

ability to use free pools of servers to re-purpose for scaling, failure, disaster recovery, etc.). simplified higher-level services, such as providing fail-over, scaling-out, replication, disaster recovery, etc. ► 2006. (2). eliminate NICs and HBAs). reduce overall quantity of servers, (e.g. ► July. (1).

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

Fountainhead

They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. ► 2006. (2). The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. ► August. (3). ► July. (1). ► June. (2).

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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Finance?

Fountainhead

And fast repurposing means you can deliver instant High Availability (HA), entire environment disaster recovery (DR), and near-instant scaling (capacity-on-demand). ► 2006. (2). The results of this approach is that physical servers can be repurposed easily, regardless of whether theyre running physical or virtual software.

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Fountainhead: Alternative Recommendation for DCeP "Service.

Fountainhead

Another enterprise with the same email application may be operating in a Tier-III datacenter environment with a rigorously-controlled response rate, a full disaster-recovery requirement, and 2GB of storage per mailbox. ► 2006. (2). These two SLA examples are quite different and will therefore consume different power.