No doubt somebody somewhere is pitching an executive about the wonders of robotic IT staff or a data center completely run by HAL or IBM Watson. A better approach for data center managers is to gravitate toward the...

In what should be a comfortably advancing career, the over-40 group faces a hard choice – learn new skills or face early retirement – or worse, be consigned to performing IT grunt work for the latest hot-shot hire who...

Staying on top of the myriad of standards is a dizzying prospect for any person charged with knowing which to use and which to dismiss.

A restful evening may come to a sudden end due to a text or a frantic phone call for anyone involved in data center management. We asked a number of IT pros what kept them up at night. Here's what they had to say.

What are the duties of the data center manager in an everything-as-a-service world?

Here's how to make smarter capacity planning decisions

Securing the new perimeter in the age of cloud

Disaster recovery and business continuity -- no longer a cumbersome duo.