Itascapoint’s Cloud Maturity Evaluation
After some dabbling around, trial and error, and back-of-mind decision making around cloud migration, a serious move to what some would call “Cloud 2.0” can feel like a skydiving leap-of-faith for your organization: Knowing you’ve already made the “skydiving” commitment, Itascapoint wants to pack your parachute before the big jump. Our team of cloud experts…
Read MoreData Center Trends
Recently I had the opportunity to be on a Minnesota High Tech Association panel regarding the data center market place. The following are the key topics discussed: Growth in co-locations in the market place The Minneapolis, MN area has seen incredible growth in great co-location options. As data centers in the market place continue to…
Read MoreThe Reality of Zinc Whiskers
After auditing data centers for 15 years, I officially encountered the presence of zinc whiskers. What are zinc whiskers? Zinc whiskers are tiny conductive filaments of zinc typically less than a few millimeters long and only a few thousandths of a millimeter in diameter. They grow from metal surfaces (e.g., steel) that have been electroplated (galvanized) with zinc for…
Read MoreTop of Rack (TOR) Vs. Centralized Data Center Switching
During a recent data center design we reviewed the next generation of LAN switching in data centers. We found one key change in the next generation data center switches from Cisco, HP, Juniper, Arista, Huawei. RJ45’s seem to be coming back. For the past few years data center designs were exclusively Top of Rack (TOR)…
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