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How to Achieve Peace of Mind When Destroying Data Tapes
It’s a data center administrator’s worst nightmare. A data tape headed for destruction disappears in transit. Even companies that use the very best tape management systems to track tapes and other media have no control once the media is in transit.... -
Turn Up the Heat in Your Data Center & Save Cold Hard Cash
In these energy conscious times, it’s not often recommended to raise the heat to save energy but that’s the latest wisdom being peddled to data center managers. That’s because allowing a data center to run hotter means less... -
Buying New Servers Is Nothing But a Headache
Want to make the boss unhappy? Tell him or her you need to buy another server. That’s what researchers discovered when they polled more than 400 IT pros about their attitudes toward servers. The survey sponsored by Rackspace Hosting of... -
Gentlemen, Start Your Cloud Predictions
In keeping with our end-of-the-year-predictions theme, it’s time once again to crank up the crystal balls and make fearless predictions about what will happen in the coming year. This time we look at cloud computing. -
2010 eDiscovery Predictions
December is the traditional time for prognosticators to take their runes from the closet and give us insight into the future. Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind, a legal knowledge management outfit based in San Francisco, provided some insight a few... -
How to Make Your Data Center Network Ready for the Cloud
Unless you want to engage in ostrich management, you’re going to have to deal with cloud computing, most likely sooner than later. Why? Because for most companies, the benefits have become impossible to ignore. Preparing your IT architecture for... -
Significantly Reduce Power Costs by Upgrading Your UPS.
Looking for ways to improve energy efficiency in your data center? You might want to take a closer look at your Uninterrupted Power Supply system. An inefficient UPS expels heat, and the more heat in your data center, the... -
Where should you locate your next data center?
Geography may have lost its luster among curriculum creators, but it remains an important consideration when planning a data center. After all, no business wants to locate such a critical component to its overall mission in a place where... -
Making sense out of turning your data center green.
At the end of this summer, Prentice Hall published Marty Poniatowski’s Foundations of Green IT, a book on designing energy efficient data centers. The volume is a comprehensive discussion of consolidation, virtualization, efficiency and ROI in the data center.... -
Who you gonna trust? Apparently not Google.
As Google tries to expand beyond the search engine business, it’s meeting resistance from some IT quarters. On the surface it may seem that IT managers are worrying about their job security as the King of Search tries to...