As the Cloud Compute and Cloud Storage markets continue to mature, some of those vendors are going to go out of business. It is the natural order of things. The strong (or well funded) survive. You either need to be…
Blogger’s note: This article states “it is the long-standing threats of human error and physical security of the data centre which continue to be ranked of key importance by respondents to the surveys conducted for this report.” We agree. Data…
Data Center Virtualization: Cloud Computing Still a Work in Progress. The AFCOM association recently revealed the results of a survey of 436 data center sites that showed the following trends: Cyber terrorism is an increasing concern, mainframe deployment is declining,…
One of the areas IT departments are asked to cut back in is operational costs for their data centers. Down economy or not, IT managers have never had a blank check with which to meet an organization’s needs. As time…
Flexibility in power, cooling, floor space eliminate barriers associated with change in the data center. Outsource data center facilities eliminate these barriers to change, along with many data center compliance and certification problems. Hospital data centers may not be ready…
