Do your worst-behaved applications define your data center requirements? If so, you’re not alone. Your most important applications are often the hardest applications for IT to support and to keep running. These mission-critical applications and their behaviors greatly influence design…
Which issues are top of mind, or should be top of mind, for CIOs? Consider this list, gleaned from discussions with scores of U.S. and Indian CIOs, as well as from our own research. On a trip to India late…
A Trinity Health IT engineer keeps systems that reside in a generator shed running, despite fluctuating temperatures and dusty conditions. Since January, David Filas, a data center engineer at Trinity Health, has been running decommissioned servers, networking gear and storage…
Clamor for private cloud services from infrastructure-as-a-service providers threatens traditional outsourcing firms like HP and IBM. IBM, HP, and other established vendors entering cloud computing are often already outsourcing partners to the firms that are now frequently looking for an…
Amazon, IBM, Rackspace reps debate cloud security and availability, along with use of SQL and database connectivity in the cloud at ZendCon Security, cited as an issue with cloud computing when the concept began to take hold several years ago,…
