Nearly four years have passed since the government introduced FedRAMP, a program designed to encourage federal agencies to embrace cloud computing as a way to significantly reduce federal IT operating and capital investment costs. FedRAMP, officially known as the Federal…
With so much focus on environmental issues, data centers are increasingly coming under scrutiny for the amount of energy they consume. It’s not just a matter of being conscientious of the environment, many companies are concerned about the high costs…
We’re hooked. Hooked on the internet as part of our day-to-day lives, that is, whether it’s social media or our reliance on the growing number of smart home devices. And that trend only will continue to grow — fueling the…
When IT professionals gathered for a recent OpenStack conference in Austin, Texas, it was apparent that there was some buzz about network functions virtualization (NFV). As Data Center Knowledge described it in a recent article, NFV “stole the show,” with…
With more companies shifting part of their IT infrastructure to the cloud, the colocation data center is emerging as a viable solution to providing physical distance between cloud providers and company servers. That type of interest is behind projections that…
