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Energy Star compliance for OptiPlex platforms, which have been available since 2003. The Round Rock, Texas-based vendor also reduced the amount of time required by the EPA for Energy Star compliance from 30 minutes of inactivity to 15 minutes for the computer to enter the low-power mode. Top 500...
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Jun 26, 2009
for NEBS compliance and supports up to 24 146 GB SAS disks in a 2U enclosure.
Upsite study finds benefits of blanking panels The study, paid for by Upsite but conducted by an... More... Jun 24, 2009
regulatory compliance, IT governance and process improvement.
What did you think of this feature? Write to SearchDataCenter.com's Matt Stansberry about your data center concerns at mstansberry@techtarget.com. Understanding the current state of your data center is the key to improving power... More... May 7, 2009
for compliance. You can't find absolute certainty out there in a cloud, by definition.
What goes for PCI also goes for all those other "fully acronym-compliant" compliance regulations out there -- HIPAA, SOX, SAS70, GLBA, etc. No matter what industry you operate in, there are regulations somewhere... More... Dec 31, 2008
regulatory compliance, storage demand).
I think we'll see server life cycles stretched. Even the government will cut back. We're on a Continuing Resolution which keeps budgets at the same level, but since there are cost-of-living increases, it effectively cuts the budget for everything else. The drop... More... Nov 12, 2008
of required compliance for data center managers, Stansberry said.
So too, measuring energy use is becoming increasingly important, but 36% of people surveyed by SearchDataCenter.com said they do not know the dollar amount of their power bill, and just about half the keynote attendees raised... More... Oct 24, 2008
on compliance efforts
Achieving significant savings through virtualization and automation
Let us know what you think about the story; email Mark Fontecchio, News Writer. You can also check out our Data Center Facilities Pro blog. AFCOM holds its annual fall Data Center World... More... Oct 3, 2008
CA Software Compliance Manager, CA IT Process Manager and CA Security Compliance Manager.
CA Software Compliance Manager continually monitors software license compliance using a compliance engine that matches discovered instances of software licenses. The tool can also detect the... More... Jun 11, 2008
database or compliance systems about actions taken by Cassatt Active Response to stay in sync.
Cassatt reported that its Active Response software can cut data center energy use by 30% by powering servers down and back up again on a regular schedule. Add the new demand-based policies to... More... May 30, 2008
compliance is automation. As an IT manager for Arch Reinsurance Ltd., in Bermuda, a publicly held company that provides specialty property and casualty reinsurance, Smith has deployed data center automation tools wherever possible to help his company meet SOX requirements. "Given...
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Mar 13, 2008
based on its compliance with the Statement on Auditing Standards, a standard overseen by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants that defines professional standards used during an audit of a service organization such as data center hosting providers. Many of the major data...
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Mar 13, 2008
and compliance perspective," he said. They search log files looking for discrepancies that could suggest a security breach or compliance problem. "Splunk is really designed for IT operations in that it collects huge amounts of miscellaneous log file data from disparate sources and...
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Mar 11, 2008
for IT compliance and new provisioning software.
In pulling together all aspects of provisioning and managing a virtualized computing environment -- one that includes inclusive of servers, storage, software and services -- Unisys' Infrastructure Management Suite should reduce the time... More... Feb 19, 2008
and compliance, resource management, database performance, and automated storage optimization.
Combs said that there are no new products involved in the announcement. Ptak said that offering software in suites allows mainframe users to simplify how many applications – and how... More... Jan 23, 2008
compliance requirements and overloaded IT staffs -- has prompted these changes. Simply put, meeting these demands the old-fashioned way is no longer feasible and has forced sea changes in IT. And 2008 is shaping up to be the year in which it all rolls out. Sure, many IT managers will have...
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Jan 16, 2008
Regulatory compliance and offshoring data centers
While there are advantages to an international data center, some companies can't offshore some data because of regulatory compliance requirements. According to Richard Jones, DCS VP and service director at Burton Group, "In some instances, it... More... Dec 4, 2007
systems are compliance, system availability and ITIL," he said. "Ad hoc changes are responsible for a lot of issues, so our system, along with Opsware, provides the mechanism where you can control change both behaviorally through policies as well as technically through automation." Most customers...
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Jul 23, 2007
and compliance are also major motivating factors.
By far the most significant criterion for choosing a systems management software vendor was functionality, outweighing market leadership and existing vendor relationships. Price was a distant second. Jul 13, 2007
regulatory compliance.
"The risk independent of global location is accidental deletion or virus attacks," Jones said, who gave a talk titled "Disaster Recovery: Are you prepared?" at Burton Group's Catalyst conference this week. "This is one of the No. 1 things they should address." A wide variety of... More... Jun 27, 2007
and compliance requirements, according to a new survey on data center-related initiatives conducted by Campos Research & Analysis LLC (CR&A) and sponsored by Digital Realty Trust Inc.
Five out of every six respondents -- more than 80% -- have plans to expand their data centers, according to the CR... More... May 16, 2007
imposed by compliance and large consolidation and virtualization projects, ITIL may just be the best bet to bring order to the data center.
ITIL adoption in the data center There's anecdotal evidence that ITIL is striking a chord among data centers. At Gartner's Data Center Conference in... More... Mar 29, 2007
compliance efforts provided an initial entry to ITIL
"After Sarbanes-Oxley, we had to adopt some rigorous change control standards across the organization," says JoLee Hayes, vice president of enterprise technologies at the Reston, Va.-based company. While Sallie Mae established... More... Mar 29, 2007
and state compliance measures," said Chris Adam, director of NextPhase Services in Peabody.
Before these types of services were available, companies would sell outdated PCs to employees, give the old hardware to charities to make room for updated equipment, or simply throw them in the dumpster.
... More... Feb 15, 2007
Regulatory compliance has become a huge burden for many companies, but some data center pros are turning to log data management tools to make compliance easier. Monitoring and investigating log data allows users to generate reports for auditors, speeding up the process to achieving SAS 70...
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Jan 19, 2007
to compliance auditors. "They're always asking if you can verify that you have monitoring software. Can you validate that you have Norton Antivirus on all your servers? Can you show us who has access to these servers? BladeLogic runs that report, and it makes life a lot easier."
Ferris said he... More... Dec 19, 2006
And though compliance is not mandatory, most manufacturers need to adhere to them in order to sell things such as network cabling.
While many standards deal with the manufacture of a specific component of the data center, this recent standard is a best practices approach. The committee, made up... More... Nov 14, 2006
regulatory compliance issues.
CA made the announcement today at a Microsoft Exchange conference in Las Vegas, saying the features included data protection, email archiving and compliance assistance. Exchange Server 2007 is expected to be available late this year or early next. Let us know... More... Nov 9, 2006
but also for compliance.
"We have customers that have taken Splunk, set up searches, and then give auditors the RSS feed to let them know that they are monitoring the systems. They don't have to send a report, they can just set them up automatically." Pricing begins at $2,500 per year. Avocent releases... More... Sep 19, 2006
continued compliance. For example, IBM's z9 integrates an encryption feature based on the SHA-256 hashing algorithm. By encrypting all data at the hardware level, there is no performance penalty imposed by encryption software, and any tapes are natively secure.
Aug 16, 2006
or risk compliance problems, companies are increasingly turning to third-party providers for data replication, e-mail protection, and archiving services. SunGard is one provider recognized for its off-site data replication and business continuity service offerings. Iron Mountain...
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Jul 19, 2006
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