Continuing with our look at year-end reviews and predictions, I’m struck by the way many of these reports focus on individual technologies but not on the data center in general. If your focus is on, say, the future of servers…
Is flexibility in the data center your best strategy for 2010? Flexible data center space supports many CIO strategies. Flexible data center space allows for quicker implementations of new lines of business, and their associated applications. Flexible data center space…
Affordable colocation and 99.995% uptime are NOT mutually exclusive. Make sure you understand your outsource data center’s levels of redundancy and the uptime service level agreements in order to get the best combination of uptime and affordability. Your staff, your…
Data center uptime demands are increasing. Floor space is holding steady or slowly increasing. Power requirements per cabinet are on the rise. Data center power costs are moving up. If any of these trends are happening in your enterprise data…
IT outsourcing in 2009 ebbed and flowed as the recession-challenged global economy contracted IT budgets before loosening its grip a bit toward the end of the year. Along the way, many in-house IT jobs were eliminated, and many enterprise CIOs…
