Cables, wires, conduit – these are the backbone of your data center, but their importance is often overlooked. If you’ve ever had to untangle a mess of wires to troubleshoot a problem, you know organization isn’t always a top priority…
By the time businesses decide to move their data center, or consolidate multiple data centers at one location, they’re eager to get to work and finish the migration as soon as possible. But this task requires a lot of planning…
Are there windows in the shell of the building housing your data center? Let’s give this 5 milliseconds of serious thought, shall we? First, relying strictly upon common sense, the #1 material threat to infrastructure in the Midwest is severe…
Ah, summertime – sunshine, vacations and occasional devastating power outages! That’s right – blackouts are poised to steal the #1 spot from mosquitoes, on the list of top summer nuisances. And a power outage can do a lot of damage,…
In its 2014 IT budget survey, Computerworld found that 43 percent of the 194 executives surveyed predicted their budgets would increase for 2015. In the same 2013 survey, only 36 percent of respondents had made that same prediction. If those…
