Editors note: Outsourcing data center facilities allows you to outsource the complexities and costs of cooling. Roughly 40 percent of the energy consumed in data centers is a result of cooling systems, and that figure is rising. Reversing that trend…
With the major standards bodies working out identity management and security and portability in the cloud, the industry has turned its attention to another matter: cloud computing law and order — in particular, the lack of jurisprudence as to who…
Should you be using outsource data center for a do-it-yourself disaster recovery center? Ten years ago, organizations that wanted to protect their enterprise data center from disaster had few choices. Back then, the mainframe was usually the centerpiece of the…
While I’m by no means trying to take attention away from the horrific environmental and economic disaster that the now largest oil spill in U.S. history has caused, I can’t help but see some lessons that I and other IT…
What makes one CIO more successful than another is changing. In the past, deep knowledge of technology was critical. Now, a deep understanding of the business and how to move it forward has become the key metric. That change is…
