CIO — Cloud technology is emerging as a viable option for companies that want to cut costs, increase agility or augment their own IT resources without building out new infrastructure — or all of the above. But deciding which type…
99.995% data center uptime, also known as “four and a half 9’s” is 28 minutes of downtime per year or less. That’s low downtime. But how do you achieve it? Rated-4 data centers are expected to deliver this level of…
What plans do you have for your data center in the next 18 months? Are you building a hardened data center? Are you adding power or cooling to an existing data center? Are you faced with data center compliance and…
I work with a lot of CIOs and heads of strategy in Australia and the Asia Pacific area – particularly concerning the development and updating of their IT strategies. As a part of our strategy document review service, I have…
There is plenty of talk about cloud computing, wholesale colocation, and other ways to solve your data center problems. If you listen, you’ll soon be convinced that you should 1) get rid of all your hardware and put your server…
