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• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  IT business continuity plans help data centers expect the unexpected

  When an unexpected IT event crashes a website, there is an effect throughout the business. Learn to prepare for the worst and handle the unexpected.

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Rack cooling, workload management tools fight hotspots

  Whether it's an enterprise or a research cluster, data centers are running into hotspots -- and cooling them from the outside in or the inside out.

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Five experts' dos and don'ts of building a data center

  Five pros offer quick tricks of the trade for all stages of planning and building a data center.

• May 20, 2014 20 May'14

  Hyper-convergence should solve data capacity, mobility issues

  Hyper-converged offerings are starting to gain ground, but what's true hyper-convergence? What problems does it solve?

• May 16, 2014 16 May'14

  Ubuntu roadmap leads to cloud, hyperscale computing

  Ubuntu isn't trying to be the best Linux server OS for enterprise apps. Instead, the distribution focuses on cloud and hyperscale installations.

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• May 12, 2014 12 May'14

  Hyperconvergence on the horizon for enterprises

  Hyperconvergence and enterprise cloud computing will be priority topics at the Modern Infrastructure Summit.

• May 05, 2014 05 May'14

  Fabric computing hones predictive analysis for commodity steel maker

  Rolled steel isn't a typical bastion of advanced IT, but one company is getting the most out of its ERP systems through a fabric computing platform.

• April 25, 2014 25 Apr'14

  Converted-mine data center tour amidst rocks and racks

  Data center colocation providers have gotten creative with where they place facilities to save energy or increase security, and one cloud provider has found its home underground. Lightedge ...

• April 21, 2014 21 Apr'14

  IBM servers' woes continue, cloud services show promise

  IBM's once mighty server hardware business continues to struggle. Big Blue bets on software and cloud services business to bring some relief.

• April 17, 2014 17 Apr'14

  Red Hat open source innovation reactions abound from the Twitterati

  It was all about openness at the Red Hat Summit 2014. From OpenShift to OpenStack to open source innovations, Red Hat was buzzing about the cloud.

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Flash memory storage speeds past slow write cliffs

  IT teams once burned by flash memory storage are giving the hardware another look as new approaches arrive on the market.

• April 11, 2014 11 Apr'14

  Data center consolidation best practices: Lessons from the trenches

  Eliminate the inconsistencies between facilities with a data center consolidation plan. Enterprises share their experiences and advice for success.

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  International data center expansion fuses foreign with familiar

  The U.S. data center building industry is well-established, but it's literally a whole new world when companies expand IT operations internationally.

• April 01, 2014 01 Apr'14

  Three data center questions that administrators are afraid to ask

  Every administrator has a question about their data center or IT roadmap that they're afraid to ask. On April 1, we answer three such questions.

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Green data centers fail to live up to cost-savings promise

  Green data centers promised significant cost savings, but that has been a dream deferred. So far, power-efficient chips have proved more effective.