Data center operations management

HIGHLIGHTS

	Data center consolidation, virtualization: Ultra-dense server deployments TIP - Combining blade server, virtualization and SAN technologies in the data center leads to ultra-dense server deployments, which can save on hardware costs and power.
	ITIL in the data center: Organizing your IT processes FEATURE - In this five-part series on ITIL in the data center, you'll learn about how some IT departments implemented a service management structures successfully.
	Making sense of metrics ARTICLE - Making sense of metrics
	Data center disaster recovery ALL-IN-ONE GUIDES - Having a solid disaster recovery plan can be the difference between having information to restore a business with or starting from scratch.
	Controlling configuration and change management: IT process controls TIP - In this audiocast, the IT Process Institute's Gene Kim says controlling the frameworks that govern configuration and change management is the key to successful IT organizations.

SUBTOPICS

	Data center budget considerations Data center budget: Find ways to savie money in your data center. Are you getting ROI on your data center projects? Looking for funding for new data center initiatives? Check out our budgeting advice.
	IT Compliance: SOX and HIPAA in the data center IT compliance news and tutorials on topics including SOX and HIPAA in the data center, plus SAS 70 trends.
	IT Governance: ITIL, ITSM, COBIT IT governance tutorials: ITIL, ITSM and COBIT -- learn how to implement an ITIL framework in your data center with these tips and tools.
	Information systems management Information systems management trends and tutorials. Learn more on how to do capacity planning, configuration management, server performance monitoring and data center automation. Process automation technologies, Hardware performance and monitoring, Configuration and change management, Capacity planning
	Application management (app performance) Find news and advice about application management -- application performance and monitoring in particular -- as it relates to the data center.
	High availability in the data center High availability is important to your data center. Find news and advice about how to keep your data center running smoothly and at its peak performance.
	Data center staffing Data center staffing advice: Find employees with the right skills to run your data center.
	Server virtualization Find more data center news and advice on server virtualization in the data center, including managing server sprawl, capacity planning for virtual machines and systems management in the VMware environment. Data center server virtualization
	Data center disaster recovery planning Data center disaster recovery planning can be a fulltime job. Get the how-to advice for data center business continuity planning, disaster recovery software and more.
	Managing data center outsourcing services, vendors Learn how to deal with outsourcers and vendors in your data center -- from vendor negotiations to data center outsourcing security risks.
	Data center standards and metrics Find news and advice surrounding various standards, metrics and benchmarks that apply to your data center and its equipment.

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