Data center building, power, and cooling disciplines are not IT disciplines. Your expertise on applications, software architecture, network, server and storage design is not expertise on building Rated-4 data centers with 99.995% uptime. Likewise, experts on mission critical facilities like…
Clamor for private cloud services from infrastructure-as-a-service providers threatens traditional outsourcing firms like HP and IBM. IBM, HP, and other established vendors entering cloud computing are often already outsourcing partners to the firms that are now frequently looking for an…
Google spent $680 million on its data center infrastructure in the third quarter of 2011, a decline from recent quarters. The slight decrease in infrastructure investment is likely tied to the completion of two of the company’s data center projects.…
Is your organization considering Chicago disaster recovery data centers? Chicago colocation and disaster recovery providers offer many options. Are these best for your organization? Many factors play in to the selection secondary data center and office space locations. A good…
The State of the Data Center: 2011 report series outlines trends in server and software purchasing, data center infrastructure and more. For findings and analysis on data center spending and technology adoption trends, see the contents of this special report…
