Amidst a global boom in online shopping, the trend highlights the differences in how brick-and-mortar retailers are trying to scale sales, compared to how online vendors prepare for the holiday rush, writes Ajay Nilaver of Fusion-io.
A good portion of the bad reputation of the mainframe computer is simply due to three common misperceptions: perceived high cost, perceived IT skills crisis and perceived irrelevance to modern computing, writes Andrew Wickett of Microform.
A recent downtime study took a closer look at high-performing data centers that experienced the least amount of downtime and identified seven common attitudes and actions largely shared by the organizations, writes Peter Panfill of Emerson's...
For a Disaster Recovery strategy to work as per design, one of the important contributors is DR site as it will define service availability to customers during disasters, writes Prashant Baweja of Infosys.
As he attended recent industry events, it became abundantly clear why a CIO should care about DCIM. Matt Bushell of Nylte Software outlines the reasons DCIM should definitely be on the radar screen of the IT executive.
The Syracuse University Green Data Center is now a reality and has been in successful operation for over three years. The data center, at 6,000 square feet includes an adjacent power plant containing the combined heat and power system. David Blair...
Here we are in 2013 and very few data centers are even raising their thermostats to the recommended limits prescribed by ASHRAE’s 2008 guidance. Raising the thermostat is the single most simple energy saving move a data center can make, so why is...
