April 2, 2015
Freshly signed by the President of the United States himself is a new executive order that will allow sanctions to be placed against persons or groups that digitally attack the United States (and all its entities). In what can only […]
March 26, 2015
When one thinks of data centers, it’s inevitable that rows and rows of server-racks in a giant room comes to mind. It’s been that way forever. Hot-aisle, cold-aisle—it’s all been analyzed to death. The racks are propped up off the […]
March 17, 2015
Cyber-security problems seem to be a hot topic any time business and data are spoken in the same sentence. We have written at length in the past about several big business cyber-security risks—detailing what happened, what should have been done, […]
March 10, 2015
Forever, data centers have been rows and rows of dedicated servers. Static, boring racks, or new virtualized server environments—powered by this or that and running in this environment or the other. However they were run, they always had one thing in […]
March 3, 2015
Editor’s Note: The original article (posted below the line) was published on August 06, 2013. An update on the subject matter was sorely needed…. It’s been a good two years since we updated our readers on big data, so let’s […]
February 24, 2015
Like something out of a Sci-Fi movie, data centers are looking to use fuel cells as their main source of power. Yes, that’s kind-of-battery-powered data centers. What!? Crazy. There’s been attempts to do this in the past, most notably with Apple’s […]
February 17, 2015
Have you ever been to a computer retail store and the sales associate pitches you an anti-virus software and one of the choices is something called “Kasperksy?” Have you then thought, “What’s a Kaspersky?” or something similar? Well, that weird […]
February 11, 2015
A University of London research team is extending the operating distance of fiber-optic cabling by doubling the existing throughput. Using photonic technology, the researchers are connecting dissimilar data centers (even ones on different continents) by using “game-changing” technology involving long […]
February 9, 2015
It would be foolish of me to tell you that all data centers aren’t built the same. It would be foolish, but why would I say it anyways? That’s because data center efficiency must have multiple definitions to fit each […]
