Data Center

Tue, January 10, 2012 - A growing trend in the disaster recovery arena for cloud providers is the use of load-balanced data centers instead of hot-cold data centers. Companies are deploying private clouds that are load balanced between their datacenters to take care of disaster needs. If one datacenter suffered from a disaster, the other datacenter would be operating even though it is at reduced capacity.

Mon, January 09, 2012 - Brian Burch knew the moment had arrived. Two of his data center's key services -- availability and business continuity -- needed fast and dramatic improvement. Design and location limitations meant that his company's existing data center couldn't be upgraded to the levels necessary to provide the improvements in functionality and performance that he required.

Fri, January 06, 2012 - Using Auto Commit Memory, it demonstrated 1 billion IOPS on eight servers

Fri, January 06, 2012 - Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical storage reservoir and ensures resiliency by backing up data on at least two physical disks.

Wed, January 04, 2012 - Intel is advising its customers to increase the temperature in their data centers, claiming that companies can save four percent in energy costs for every 1ºC they turn up the heat.

Tue, January 03, 2012 - The biggest challenge is the limited size of a phone's back cover, according to the vendor

Mon, January 02, 2012 - Though not seen much on the campaign trail, mobile strategy is expected to be important for attracting younger voters.

Thu, December 29, 2011 - In 2011, Apple introduced significant updates to its flagship iOS devices--the iPad and the iPhone. It added a new buying option to the App Store, perhaps rescuing the magazine industry in the process.

Wed, December 28, 2011 - The market share of Microsoft's mobile platform was just 1.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011, according to Gartner figures.

Wed, December 28, 2011 - Everyone knows about the success of Linux and Apache, but here are other open source technologies on the rise.