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.…
Businesses are running more datacentre applications with fewer staff and less budget, Symantec’s latest research has found. A study of 1,600 companies conducted by Applied Research for Symantec found that 41% of businesses have more than 1,000 applications in their…
What is your cost of downtime? If it is high, you may be able to control those costs by employing outsource data center facilities. Data center facilities downtime events (power, cooling, physical security, and fire suppression) are some of the…
There is a growing gap between memory bandwidth and CPU power and this growing gap makes low power servers both more practical and more efficient than current designs. Per-socket processor performance continues to increase much more rapidly than memory bandwidth…
More than a year after the global recession came roaring in and battered their IT budgets, data center managers are hoping to get at least some money back in 2010, according to IT professionals and analysts. They’re also looking at…
