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Data Center Migration Challenges and Relocation Risks: How to Overcome Them
If you manage a data center, you often deal with situations that might seem difficult to overcome. Such frustrations often arise during data center migrations and relocations. There are many things to get right, but also so many things that can go wrong. We’ll look…
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Data Center Migration Best Practices – Ensuring a Smooth Relocation
A data center migration involves moving IT assets from one data center environment to another. In some cases, this means physically relocating hardware, although the process could also be a migration from on-premises hosting to the cloud or simply moving a virtual machine (VM) from…
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Data Center Migration Overview: Relocation Strategies and Tools
IT systems and infrastructures rarely stand still. New use cases, shifting business needs, and technology evolution mean that existing data center performance can be sub-optimal. Such changes drive the need for data center migration, a process that can take the form of moving IT assets…
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OEM Support vs. Third-Party Maintenance
Let’s compare original equipment manufacturers (OEM) support and Park Place Technologies’ third-party maintenance (TPM).
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Direct-to-Chip Cooling – How it Works and its Effectiveness
Modern data center workloads like artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics tend to heat up digital hardware. With CPUs and GPUs cranked up to their “boost” speeds, the need for efficient cooling is acute. Direct-to-Chip cooling offers an effective, energy-efficient solution. By directly cooling the…
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Data Center Maintenance Guide – Best Practices to Prevent Downtime
In an era of cloud computing and “as-a-service” IT products, we tend to forget that somewhere, someplace, a physical computer is handling most of our digital activities in a data center. Largely invisible, today’s data centers are buildings that contain massively complex and interdependent systems…
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VMware vSphere vs. vCenter vs. ESXi – Differences, Benefits, and More
It’s no secret that using virtualization can improve IT resiliency, optimize utilization rates, and increase efficiency. However, the data center virtualization process has many variables that should be considered before forging a path forward. Once upon a time, pursuing a virtualization solution was relatively easy…
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Database Monitoring: Best Practices & Metrics to Consider
If you’ve ever waited for an airline reservation system or point-of-sale terminal to complete a task, you’ve probably heard an employee mutter the excuse, “Sorry, our systems are slow today.” If you work in IT, you probably wondered what, exactly, was causing the slowdown. The…