After an extraordinarily rocky start, the federal healthcare exchange, the online marketplace consumers use to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Healthcare Act, seems to be working more smoothly. But, now problems are cropping up with...
Hardware infrastructure developers will have to cope with commoditization, either by recalibrating their efforts toward commoditization, or by forging partnerships with other data center ecosystem contributors, writes Jake Iskhakov of ServerLIFT.
It’s time to give up on incrementally improving a broken backup system, and instead move forward toward a new model for data protection. The cloud holds much more potential than a cheap dumping ground for backup and archive data, writes Andres...
Exponential growth is the cause of density issues plaguing today’s data centers. Simply put, more powerful computers generate more heat which results in significant additional cooling costs each year, writes Charles Doughty of Iron Mountain.
DCIM promises to bring Return on the Investment but how do you know if the solution will improve your bottom line and meet your needs? K.G. Anand of Avocent, which is part of Emerson Network Power, outlines how you can evaluate a solution and its...
What's the relationship between data centers and the environment? Considering many unusual data center locations - such as near the Arctic circle or underground caves and bunkers - locations selected demonstrates some of the challenges posed to...
