Cloud computing can be broken down into roughly three categories. Many of us use simple cloud services on a daily basis without even realizing it, while enterprise customers utilize the cloud to host their entire infrastructure. Some cloud platforms offer…
As data centers continue to gain more and more IT equipment, they aren’t necessarily getting more people to manage their servers, new surveys have found. One of the biggest data center infrastructure challenges that IT executives face is the management…
In a survey conducted by the Association for Computer Operations Management (AFCOM), a data center managers group, 37% of the respondents said that they reduced their data center staffs over the past three years and 29% said that they kept…
In its annual technical forum last week, The Green Grid unveiled a new Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM), which presents a holistic approach to data center efficiency, providing clear goals and direction for improving sustainability across all aspects of the…
Whenever the conversation in IT circles drifts toward low-power servers and the new class of chips that run them, I’m reminded of an early scene in “Joe Versus the Volcano.” Joe (Tom Hanks) walks into his dead-end job where Mr.…
