Data Center

Sun, July 26, 2009 - The decision between virtualization and cloud computing should be made on a case-by-case basis. Here are the pros and cons.

Thu, July 23, 2009 - As the San Diego Port Authority's IT team learned, you don't have to be a Fortune 500 company to afford data center management tools based on CMDB technology now. Here's a look at their early experience with a SaaS-based product that's part of a growing group of options.

Wed, July 22, 2009 - As if outsourcing, virtualization, utility computing, automation, hosted applications, and a recession weren't enough to stress out the average IT professional, there's the emerging threat of cloud computing to take away even more IT jobs.

Wed, July 22, 2009 - Mergers and acquisitions brought on by the difficult economy mean companies are looking to do more with less data center. Here's advice from a CIO who helped merge four hospitals, 18 clinics and three data centers.

Thu, July 09, 2009 - Think your company's site isn't worth attacking? Think all hackers are technical whiz kids? It's time to revisit some security assumptions in the wake of the recent attacks on U.S. and South Korean Web sites, security experts say.

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.