The 5 Principles of IT Infrastructure Management: How IT Leaders Can Become Strategic Business Drivers in a Hybrid Cloud World

whitePaper | June 15, 2022

How do you green an operation that requires reliable-resilient power 24/7/365, in a dynamically changing environment, while maintaining global environmental responsibility, sustainability, and profitability? Some data centers consume more energy than a large town or small city. But those towns and cities have time to relax and shut down. While data centers are critical infrastructure, they also run our worlds critical infrastructure – so keeping them online can be a matter of life and death. Combine this with the continued need for more sustainable operations, renewable energy goals and objectives, and a dramatic increase for data storage services – and you have an interesting challenge.

whitePaper | December 12, 2022

Early this year, a broad alliance of citizens in Brazil published a Digital Sovereignty Charter1 In it, they lamented the rampant extraction and manipulation of local data by large technology companies and urged the government to support interoperable and open technologies, and data centers for common use.

whitePaper | December 13, 2022

Technology is advancing rapidly, transforming many aspects of society, including how we communicate, navigate, and treat diseases. The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly as there are more electronics than ever to run accurate diagnostics, more sensors to increase autonomy, and better connectivity to avoid interference. Plus, the miniaturization of semiconductor components and advancement in electronic display technologies enables consumer electronic (CE) devices to become compact.

whitePaper | November 22, 2022

5G is now entering diverse industries, including the electric power industry. 5G technologies can be adopted in the electric power industry to quicken the industry's digital and intelligent transformation, which will provide strong support for building a clean, secure, efficient, and lowcarbon electric power system. However, before widely applying 5G technologies in the industry, we must address current network security issues. Network security is at the basis of digital transformation and the industry has put forward the security protection principle "secure partitioning, exclusive network use, horizontal isolation,

whitePaper | September 30, 2022

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) is an industry-leading, secure, open, and comprehensive Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution. Cisco ACI radically simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates infrastructure deployment and governance, and it expedites the application deployment lifecycle.

whitePaper | December 14, 2022

In the post-pandemic world, we spread data everywhere. As remote and hybrid workforce models become the norm, multi-cloud deployments evolve into the de facto computing standard for distributed workloads. This expands the attack surface well beyond the walls of a traditional data center and overextends already understaffed security teams. As a result, organizations struggle to combat the growing number of insider and outsider threats targeting their invaluable digital assets.