Anyone currently involved in cloud computing as a customer, software/hardware vendor, or service provider would be well-served to have a healthy dose of skepticism about them at all times. We’re (still) in the heady, early days of cloud computing. You…
As any homeowner knows, air conditioning is more expensive when the temperature spikes outside because the room unit or centralized equipment has to work harder to keep a steady temperature. The same is true with a data center, albeit on…
Corporate America has made some painful adjustments over the past year, but for data center managers, the pressure to contain costs has always been unrelenting–it’s impossible to maintain a low profile when your area of responsibility consumes the bulk of…
The stuff you can’t (or won’t) build into your data center could be the cause of a future outage. What stuff am I talking about? Data center power redundancy – dual utility power feeds, dual generators, and dual UPS systems…
As data center and hosting companies transition to a cloud computing model, we’ve been tracking the economics of cloud business models for providers. Cloud computing may be the most economic way for end users to deploy IT capacity. But what…
