Data Center

Thu, June 25, 2009 - The Energy Star program for servers is a good first step, most agree, but it measures energy use only under limited circumstances and does not include popular hardware types, like blade servers - at least not yet.

Mon, June 22, 2009 - Wherever you turn, someone's ready to tell (or sell) you something related to cloud computing. Cutting through the myths is essential to deciding whether, when, and how the cloud is right for you. Here's our top list of myths.

Wed, June 17, 2009 - As cash-strapped states court tech giants building data centers, companies find that moving away from the West coast and the Northeast pays dividends. In this dating game, Iowa's hot, and California's not.

Mon, June 15, 2009 - Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM teams up with Brocade. Oracle buys Sun. And everybody courts that prize filly VMware.

Tue, June 09, 2009 - With more servers and storage jammed into data-center racks, and energy and storage costs on the rise, researchers at Syracuse and Georgia Tech are racing to find new ways to keep it all cool.

Mon, June 01, 2009 - Snafus haven't stopped an increasing number companies from turning to cloud computing services for pay-as-you-go processing power and storage space that don't require an investment in IT infrastructure.

Mon, June 01, 2009 - It's a recession, sure. But gaming company LV Sands bets that running its data center more efficiently will put it ahead as the world economy recovers.

Mon, June 01, 2009 - Trimming network redundancy at the University of Connecticut's School of Business was certainly not COO Michael Vertefeuille's first choice to save money. However, as the college faces a 10% budget shortfall this year, falling on the heels of last year's 5% cutback, he's had to dig deep.

Wed, May 27, 2009 - A sample of cloud service providers, their price structure and major features

Tue, May 26, 2009 - "Less bad" has become the favored description of much of the economy, including the information-technology industry, but the demand for workers to run efficient data centers continues to be strong.