Last week I spoke at Data Center World out in Las Vegas. This was my first time to attend this show and AFCOM did a great job with it. My presentation was on best practices for simplifying data center networking…
When data center and facility managers meet with the CIO about new equipment, the conversations are rarely easy. The equipment they seek is often expensive, in the six- or seven-figure range, and justifying the expense can be challenging. That was…
Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming By: Rich Miller The Google data center in Belgium, which features no chillers and routes traffic to other facilities during hot spells. Raising the temperature in server racks can make a…
I work with a lot of CIOs and heads of strategy in Australia and the Asia Pacific area – particularly concerning the development and updating of their IT strategies. As a part of our strategy document review service, I have…
Takeaway: Scott Lowe says CIOs need to be business leaders first and technologists second, but there needs to be a good balance. CIOs need to be business leaders. That is an incontrovertible fact. Over the years, however, much has been…
