Data Center

Tue, April 14, 2009 - Car buyers can easily compare two vehicles using the miles-per-gallon rating stuck to the window. Enterprise IT groups looking to improve the energy efficiency of their data centers aren't so lucky -- yet.

Wed, April 08, 2009 - Salesforce.com's major platform-as-a-service offering eases IT management headaches for CIOs and can cost significantly less to develop than in-house solutions. Here's a plain-English look at Force.com and how CIOs are using it.

Tue, April 07, 2009 - 10 tips to kill telecommuting while keeping your hands clean.

Mon, April 06, 2009 - With rumors of an impending Sun-IBM merger becoming more intense late last week, the next big question mark pertains to what happens to Sun's vast product line, which has hardware and software that overlaps with a lot of IBM's own product lines. Observers -- including a former Sun employee, a former software developer for the Sun platforms, and the founder of the Ruby on Rails Web framework -- maintain varying perspectives on what to expect and offer degrees of both optimism and pessimism about the whole endeavor.

Thu, April 02, 2009 - It's a mixed blessing that you can deploy virtualization quickly: If your team lacks experience and knowledge, speed can kill, impacting security and application performance, just for starters. No wonder virtualization skills remain hot even in this cool IT jobs market. Here's a look at the five most wanted virtualization skills.

Tue, March 31, 2009 - With energy austerity becoming the way of the future, IT groups will need energy management systems and features like never before. Will more energy control help your IT group reshape itself to sell processing and storage as a service to the business? That's next, some experts say.

Fri, March 27, 2009 - Innovation is both an exciting, revolutionary event and a mundane step-by-step process. For every remarkable, headline-making discovery -- flash memory! high-def movies! quad-core processors! -- there are more iterative research projects that move technology forward inch by inch.

Tue, March 24, 2009 - Today's down economy is forcing many retailers to rethink the balance among return policies that enhance sales, prevent fraud and protect customer privacy.

Fri, March 20, 2009 - Multi-year construction projects will continue, but outsourcing and a secondary market for cast-off facilities could slow future building.

Wed, March 18, 2009 - How much is too much? It's hard to say -- especially with datacenters. It's a subject that has troubled CIOs who have over-provisioned in the face of soaring business demands and need to cut costs at the same time.