Data Center

Wed, December 16, 2009 - Forget the big-picture cloud worries. Small details could wreak havoc in the cloud for companies porting legacy apps, analysts say.

Fri, December 04, 2009 - Shoppers are mobbing online stores, boosting traffic numbers and making it even more important that e-commerce firms handle the demand well. Data center gurus better make a list of holiday traffic lessons and check it twice.

Mon, November 23, 2009 - The online universes of Blizzard's World of Warcraft and CCP Games' EVE Online may not look similar to your data-center operating environment. But you can score big from their data-center lessons learned.

Tue, November 17, 2009 - It's easy to set up a virtual machine on your PC, creating a machine within a machine, using free desktop virtualization software from VMware. Here's a look at the advantages, plus instructions.

Mon, November 16, 2009 - Is a data center near the North Pole naughty or nice? With cheap energy, cheap cooling and incentives to spur its ailing economy, Iceland has growing appeal to data-intensive companies running scads of servers.

Mon, November 16, 2009 - 2009's up-and-coming technologies for business that will have the greatest impact in years to come

Mon, November 16, 2009 - Bigtime CIOs have endured a volatile year, and their wallets have felt the impact. The sour economy and politics involved have led to a huge drop in performance bonuses and rejiggered our annual list of high-paid technology leaders.

Thu, November 12, 2009 - Bigtime CIOs have endured a volatile year, and their wallets have felt the impact. The sour economy and politics involved have led to a huge drop in performance bonuses and rejiggered our annual list of high-paid technology leaders.

Wed, October 28, 2009 - Travel booking and expense firm Concur Technologies uses virtualization and an infrastructure-as-a-service model to slash costs and deployment times for internal business groups. Bonus benefit: Improved compliance tracking.

Tue, October 27, 2009 - Seventh Annual Global Information Security Survey: Companies are clamoring for services in the cloud. But the biggest problem from a security perspective is that few understand what they're dealing with. (Second of a four-part series)