Thu, January 21, 2010 — Computerworld — Industrial Light & Magic has been replacing its servers with the hottest new IBM (IBM) BladeCenters — literally, the hottest. For every new rack ILM brings in, it cuts overall power use in…
We’ve been talking about “aligning IT with the business” since SOA first took legs but you rarely see concrete examples of what that really means. It sounds much more grand and lofty than it really is. To put it in…
As data centers get warmer, the environment gets less forgiving. That lesson was learned the hard way at the University of Pennsylvania, which on Tuesday had to shut off the IT systems supporting the school’s financial, research and student services.…
This one even trumps concerns about security, compliance, privacy, and management. At several events in which I’ve been involved with more than 40 CIOs over the past few months, the most-talked about subject was cloud computing and the second-place topic…
Late last year a high-street financial institution experienced a power failure at an IT centre in Yorkshire, shutting down cash machines for a few hours, as well as undermining retail transactions and online banking. This incident was only the latest…
