With approximately 4 million IT jobs available United States, there's a serious shortage of qualified data center staffers. AFCOM President Tom Roberts says the best way to improve this situation is to standardize the education path for data...

David Bills, Microsoft's chief reliability strategist, outlines the challenges facing all cloud service providers as they strive to provide highly available services to power the digital lives of billions. Providers now need to factor resiliency...

While it seems like “the cloud is down” every few months. Outages from public cloud providers do happen, but not every outage is created equal and not every outage impacts customers in the same way, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni.

Today’s information explosion is proof enough that data is the lifeblood of any business and, therefore, how it’s contained is a top concern. As more enterprises put their internal servers under scrutiny, they are noticing that legacy enterprise...

As the IT environment has evolved, legacy storage solutions can present problems in new-age data centers, writes Vibhav Balaram of CloudByte.

Companies are faced with data growing at increasing rates. That impacts the entire data protection strategy. It also makes data slow and dopey like a koala bear, writes Darrell Riddle of FalconStor. Addressing it through deduplication will address...

OpenStack's work presents a great opportunity to implement the best new thinking on cloud security, while leapfrogging over hurdles strewn by enterprise legacies, writes Vin Sharma of Intel.

Demand for leading-edge data centers is increasing. And the ability of a data center owner/operator to understand and embrace the evolving IT needs of its customers can be the difference between remaining relevant and becoming extinct in today’s...