For many companies, computer systems reliability is important. Downtime can mean lost credibility, lost revenues, or worse, lost clients. Downtime is usually expensive when companies depend on computers for Internet sales, customer service, delivery of services, and manufacturing. Many companies…
A number of factors, many of which are the direct result of the recent economic downturn, are combining to make increased data center construction and renovations increasingly likely. Forecasts by IDC and Gartner point to a significant uptick in server…
What are the cost components of your data center? How are you spending money to maintain your computing environment? In-house data centers spend money on Floor space or real estate Power to the servers and network equipment (sometimes untracked) Power…
Alistair Croll says cloud providers and buyers of cloud computing services need to sort out what’s built in versus what’s an accessory in the cloud. Croll, the chair of the upcoming Cloud Connect conference, calls this the ”roof rack” problem.…
More than a third of large corporate data center users in North America plan to expand their footprint in 2010, and many are expanding because they have run out of power, not space. Those were the key findings in survey…
