Eric D. Brown

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I participated in the #DataCtrChat Twitter chat last week to join in on the conversation about the Agile Data Center. The #DataCtrChat is a great one to be a part of, especially if you’re interested in the data center. The question was: What differentiates an Agile Data Center from a traditional data center?

Data Center 209

Data Center Agile Data Symantec 209

Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 23, 2014

T he modern data center is a complex environment with many different systems and many different objectives. The data center exists to provide an organization with the networking, storage, processing and connectivity features needed to operate in the fast paced, data-driven world we live in today.

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Data Center Agile Data Hardware 207

Eric D. Brown

MARCH 10, 2015

If you ask one hundred people (or companies) what it means to have an agile data center , you’ll most likely get a large number of diverse answers. It encapsulates the entire range of things that an agile data center can do for an organization.

Data Center 100

Data Center Agile Data Symantec 100

Eric D. Brown

MARCH 9, 2015

If there was one time that a data center and an IT group absolutely need to be agile, it would be the time immediately after a disaster strikes. To do this, the key driving factor for IT and disaster recovery must be agility. How effective (and agile) are your disaster recovery plans?

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Agile Data 100

Eric D. Brown

MARCH 3, 2015

DataThe data center of tomorrow will look much differently than the data center of today. That particular sentence should not be that surprising to anyone who’s been in an organization that has internal data centers. This ‘different’ thinking has caused the data center to undergo drastic changes.

Data Center 100

Data Center Data Agile Symantec 100

Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

If you ask any business leader whether they’d prefer that their organization be thought of as ‘slow moving’ or ‘agile’, most would respond with ‘agile’ as their preference. While everyone most likely knows what agility means, let me take as second to define the term and set the stage for the discussion. Is your business agile?

Agile 100

Agile Groups Data Center Symantec 100

Eric D. Brown

MARCH 24, 2015

I’ve said a few times that the data center of today isn’t the data center of yesterday nor is it the data center of tomorrow. This complexity may just be a simple replacement of other types of complexity or it may be adding complexity to the data center.

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Agile Data Center Symantec Groups 100