What goes into making a supercomputer? This video shows the assembly of Cray blades that will go into Blue Waters, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications project at the University of Illinois.

The UFC uses Aspira to move its content quickly, graduating from physical tapes used just a year and a half ago.

This week, our contributors to the Industry Perspectives channel shared thoughts on the data center "skills gap," managing IT risk, methods to improve capacity planning, and a closer look at the differences between PCI compliance and HIPAA.

When you're adding servers and data centers as fast as Facebook, standardization and automation are your best friends. At the Open Compute Summit in January, Facebook's Delfina Eberly provided an overview of how the company uses standardization...