The IT industry is quickly consolidating data centers into fewer locations. But sometimes it makes more sense to maintain geographically distributed data centers. Data center consolidation is all the ...

“It’s all about the data” is a popular expression today. More and more, we’ve come to realize that data is the central building block for protecting, processing, sharing and storing information. And, ...

They seek to to improve their service delivery, reinforce their ability to protect systems and the data they contain, reduce costs, and streamline IT functions, according to a NASCIO report. Workforce ...

The government’s data center consolidation initiative seems to have hit a speed bump. Last year, the Inspector General (IG) for the Defense Department mentioned via a report that the government’s data ...

The cloud business has grown and matured over the past years to levels that were unimaginable at its inception. Modern cloud providers have data centers spread across the world, or at least in key ...

Rick Stevenson is CEO at Opengear. The United States government, like all of us, is trying to save a little cash and make its day-to-day operations a little more efficient. And while most of us might ...

In addition to driving the need for higher speed access, data center consolidation also drives the need for data center access that has higher availability. This follows because if one of the ...

The Space and Naval Warfare System Command wants to consolidate the Navy’s more than 200 legacy data center systems into roughly 20 enterprise centers. The Space and Naval Warfare System Command wants ...

In our previous issue of 5 Minute Briefing: Data Center, we disclosed the federal government's plans to close up to 800 of its 2,000 data centers. A new survey, conducted by Juniper, suggests that ...

Intel is maintaining a four-year refresh cycle for servers in data centers as it looks to save close to US$250 million in data center costs over an eight-year period, a company executive said on ...

Managing a fleet of any size can often seem like a monumental task, and the challenges only grow exponentially as the fleet expands, making efficient asset tracking and comprehensive data capturing a ...

Sorting through some notes from the Uptime Institute's recent IT Symposium in New York and wanted to share some comments and observations from the presentation made by Steve Sams, who is the company's ...