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Five questions to guide a cloud vs. on premises debate

Don't blindly jump on the cloud bandwagon. Before you move a workload to cloud vs. on premises, ask yourself these five questions, and prevent a complicated reverse migration.
Cloud, hyper-convergence ring in data center industry trends for 2017

From hyper-convergence to public cloud, data center teams will have their hands full in 2017. Here are five industry trends experts say to watch closely in the year to come.

Undock your data center management strategy with mobile apps

As mobile technology improves, smartphone apps for IT administration help data center managers monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure -- regardless of where they are.
Impact Awards honor best IT products, companies of 2016

The voters have spoken. From DevOps to cloud, Modern Infrastructure readers have recognized the best IT products in the 2016 Impact awards.
Explore data center procurement decisions

IT buyers know that other IT pros often are the best sources for data center procurement advice. Survey results suggest what's important in server, storage and other important requisitions.
Data center terminology that will get you hired

To land a job in a modern, adaptable data center, you have to speak the lingo. These visualizations of data center terminology will help you communicate about DevOps, scalability and other important concepts.
Iceland's data center opportunities and challenges

Data centers in Iceland access a stable power grid and free cooling. But questions still loom about Iceland's available capital and global connectivity.
Data center companies to watch in 2015

Put these data center suppliers, from virtualization leaders to management software startups, on your watch list in 2015 for product innovations and potential blockbuster partnerships.
Announcing the 2015 Impact Awards winners

Modern Infrastructure's 2015 Impact Awards winners represent the best IT products for cloud and data centers, from AWS services to cooling containment.
Top technological trends hitting the data center soon

Gartner experts predict this list of hot technological trends for 2015 and beyond will get data center managers into strategic planning huddles.
Facebook servers and cold storage in action

Facebook opened up its hyperscale data center in North Carolina for a look at its Open Compute Project servers, cold storage facility and floral conservation area.
Seven data center blogs you should be reading right now

Stay connected on trending IT topics on Twitter and Tumblr. Follow these seven experts who express news, opinions in data center blogs.
The past, present and future of top data center components

Data centers have come a long way, and we still have pretty far to go. Take a look through data centers then and now, and see what's ahead.
Your data lives where?! Strange and secure data center locations

In these data center pictures, tour barges, former mines and oil rigs. Sometimes a strange location makes the most sense for a secure data center.

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