In a survey conducted by the Association for Computer Operations Management (AFCOM), a data center managers group, 37% of the respondents said that they reduced their data center staffs over the past three years and 29% said that they kept…
99.995% uptime and affordable colocation are not mutually exclusive. How do you find a high reliability outsourced data center that is affordable? Use the checklists below. Checklist for 99.995% uptime Choose a hardened data center facility Data centers should be…
In its annual technical forum last week, The Green Grid unveiled a new Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM), which presents a holistic approach to data center efficiency, providing clear goals and direction for improving sustainability across all aspects of the…
Whenever the conversation in IT circles drifts toward low-power servers and the new class of chips that run them, I’m reminded of an early scene in “Joe Versus the Volcano.” Joe (Tom Hanks) walks into his dead-end job where Mr.…
There are just certain things in IT or the data center industry you don’t want to hear – and fire and ‘data loss’ are two of them. There were a couple of lessons learned from fire and data loss stories…
