This week's notable blog posts: Kevin Timmons of CyrusOne looks at commonalities among "data center guys," Chris Crobsy at Compass blogs on data center business models, Damien Wells at Schneider continues his series on economizers, and Barb Darrow...

Fujitsu unveils optical fiber temperature sensing technology, Wipro building global utility computing platform, Telehouse expands data center footprint in Greater China.

As a data center manager, convincing a C-level executive to spend money on your IT project requires a special touch. However, there are smart ways to approach any proposal and to get the approval needed to proceed. Data center managers can become...

The Industry Perspectives channel this week featured columns from Brendan Collins, of HGST, on storage, and Hani Elbeyal of Dell, who explains the business demand design approach to data center design.

Data center governance is a specific discipline. It is not the project management governance that brings more demand for DC services. Nor is it the audit and compliance governance that provides you policies for operation. It is the process by...

Nirvanix adds Switch SuperNAP to its cloud storage network, Terremark and EMC announce strategic cloud partnership,IO signs contract with Nothing But Net in NJ, HP expands converged cloud to burst to Amazon and Savvis.

Acquisition news in the tech and social media industries includes: Salesforce.com and Oracle buying social media intelligence; EMC acquiring performance management and Google gains productivity software with mobile capability.