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The Importance of Being Green for Data Centers
For data center operators who believe all this palaver about greening their facilities is just a fad, consider this: IT accounted for four percent of all electricity consumption in 2008, but by 2030, 40 percent of the world’s juice... -
5 Ways to Downsize Your Storage Footprint & Reduce Costs
While the price of storage on a dollar-per-megabyte basis continues to drop, the costs associated with managing that storage continue to grow. One way to get a handle on those costs is to reduce your storage footprint. Bob Scheier... -
New Study Shows Tape Still a Good Choice for Archival Data.
The results of a study by Fujifilm have been released that show Barium-Ferrite (BaFe) tape can preserve data reliably for more than 30 years. -
Recovery from Disaster Miscalculated by Most Companies
How long will it take for your organization to recover from a disaster? Chances are that your response to that question is woefully inaccurate. Many people underestimate the window of disruption caused by calamity at their businesses. -
Storage Firm Sanctioned $150K for eDiscovery Snafu
When you make your money making storage devices it’s a little embarrassing to show up in court without data that’s supposed to be safely stored on your hardware. It can be costly, too. That’s what storage titan SanDisk discovered... -
4 Quick Tips to Help IT Improve Communications with Legal
To say that IT and legal speak different languages is an understatement. The problem is, legal burdens on companies grow daily. What’s more, the days when cartons of paper documents could satisfy the discovery requirement of a case are... -
The (5.2 Billion-Dollar) Future of the Mobile Cloud
Mobile devices will be playing a major role in the expansion of cloud computing in the coming years, according to ABI Research, a technology analysis and forecasting firm based in New York City. In a report released earlier this... -
Capacity Management Is Key to Keeping Data Centers Running Efficiently
High-density hardware can save space and iron out wrinkles in the refresh cycle in data centers, but it also poses power and cooling challenges. To prevent those challenges from producing costly outages, it’s wise to have a capacity management... -
Using Ice (Yes, Ice) to Cool Your Data Center.
A consortium of utilities in California is launching a program to install in buildings a device that produce ice at night, then use the ice to cool the edifices during the day. -
What Can Be Done about Energy-Hungry Apps in the Data Center?
If anything emerged from the Uptime Symposium last May in New York, it’s that organizations appear to be losing their fight to control their energy consumption. “There is a freight train coming that most people do not see, and it...