Let’s face it: When you officially oversee “the geek department,” there are many perceptions – and misperceptions – about the kind of senior manager and person you are. This level of stereotyping may extend to the kind of education you…
A recent study pointed out that fear of downtime outranked data theft among consequences of a data breach or other intrusion. There’s a reason for that ranking, and it extends far beyond breaches. According to a Trusted Strategies/Solera Networks survey…
Enterprises pursuing virtual strategies seem to be placing themselves at greater risk of substantial data loss even as the virtual technology they are deploying simplifies and reduces the cost of disaster recovery (DR). That’s the contradictory take-away from a new…
In the good old days (late 90s and most of the 2000s) data center operators loved selling individual cabinets to customers. You could keep your prices high for the cabinet, sell power by the “breakered amp,” and try to maximize…
Text and numbers are all good and well, but sometimes it’s nice to just be presented with a nice visual. This post is full of videos of just that, interesting visualizations of data. Being the geeks we are, they’re of…
