The cost of retaining aging IT Infrastructure

Many organizations, when faced with budget challenges, put off capital expenditures (capex) and seek alternatives to acquiring new hardware platforms, such as lengthening server life cycles and extending software licenses. This pattern of stretching the useful life cycle of servers has a number of near-term benefits for customers in terms of depreciating assets over a long period of time or prolonging an existing lease. But if a transition to new technologies has been deferred too long, then the time comes when the system has fallen far behind the performance and cost-efficiency levels being offered by multiple vendors in the marketplace today. This has been especially true in recent years, as the performance of processors has more than doubled each year, based on the emergence of multicore, multiprocessor system designs with improved system speeds.

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WI-FI 6E AND FUTURE-PROOFING WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE

whitePaper | May 23, 2023

The future of wireless networking needs will continue to grow. Location based services, sensors, and IoT devices will continue to be added to wireless networks. Expanding and new uses of Wi-Fi that require high performing connections like AR/VR, AI/ML, and new technologies we don’t even know about yet will compete for wireless network resources. Finally, all the standard uses we currently associate with Wi-Fi like video and voice calls, streaming services and cloud hosted applications will continue to bring more devices to wireless networks with increasing traffic demands.

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2022 Data Center & Infrastructure Report

whitePaper | June 7, 2022

The way in which IT teams responded to the challenges ushered in by the pandemic, as well as the threat of global security breaches, deserves recognition. Teams expertly pivoted, executed what was necessary, and proved change can happen at a rapid pace. While hybrid work and increased security measures introduced new challenges, the industry remains focused on reducing costs and finding ways to diversify data center workloads.

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Greening the Future Data Center Infrastructure via the GE Aeroderivative Technology and Microgrid Controls

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.

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Technologies for data protection on the Now Platform

whitePaper | November 30, 2022

At ServiceNow, protecting customer data is a top priority. Different customers have different use cases, so we provide a range of encryption options for maximum security and flexibility. This document provides an overview of these options and is broken into three sections:

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The Sustainable Data Centre Five keys ways to maximise data centre efficiency and reduce power consumption

whitePaper | December 1, 2022

But while efforts to reduce data centre PUE (power usage effectiveness) ratings represent a step in the right direction, PUE isn’t the whole story. For example, it doesn’t capture what is happening at a rack or IT equipment level.

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GxP compliance in cloud infrastructure

whitePaper | August 31, 2022

In this era of digital transformation, where artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality have garnered attention, cloud computing is proving to be the enabler for these technologies. Pharmaceutical, medical devices and biotech companies are increasingly exploring digital solutions to improve their drug development processes, supply chain, research, manufacturing of medicines and devices etc.

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