Google spent $680 million on its data center infrastructure in the third quarter of 2011, a decline from recent quarters. The slight decrease in infrastructure investment is likely tied to the completion of two of the company’s data center projects.…
Someday, cloud security vendors and cloud services providers will convince enterprise IT that it’s safe to move sensitive data and mission critical apps from the private cloud to the public cloud. Unfortunately, that day has not yet arrived. Security practitioners,…
RIM did more dancing around the issues than frank sharing as it tried to explain the BlackBerry outage–leaving CIOs to speculate. And goodwill’s running short. After an almost four-day outage of RIM’s Blackberry service, RIM’s co-CEOs gave a status update…
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 1,200-square-foot data center at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering — that means the facility has been operating three years longer than CIO and vice president of operations Joanne Kossuth had…
Ambitious IT projects are ticking time bombs that can bring down corporations if they’re not carefully managed to come in on time and on budget, warns a study in the Harvard Business Review. The Oxford University researchers examined 1,471 information…
