Google is in a really big hurry to make the Web experience faster. That became abundantly clear in 2009, when the company unveiled a steady stream of projects, products and enhancements focused on increasing Internet speed. The initiatives varied widely…
Uh, oh! Rackspace, a major cloud-computing provider, experienced a connectivity loss at its Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, data center for more than a half hour on the afternoon of Dec. 18. During that time, customers could not access business services at…
Does your company run a strategic IT shop, or an operational one? According to the IT Governance Institute (ITGI), strategists are more forward-looking, are governed with an eye toward partnering with lines of business in order to innovate, and tend…
New year, new data center strategy: The coming of the new year offers a time for both reflection and for planning. Data center strategy is changing for many organizations. What changes do you envision for your data center in the…
Considering an outsource data center or colocation facility? As the IT infrastructure changes, many companies are looking to for a better way to deal with hardened data center facilities, power and cooling . As you consider multiple outsource data center…
