You’ve already taken your first steps into the cloud. You know your way around it, and virtualization’s intimately familiar to you. You’re done just using the cloud for storage and efficiency- you want to think big. Well, bigger, in any case. You don’t want to just save money by using the cloud; you want to start making money. You want to monetize it. Believe it or not, that’s easier than it sounds- if you have the right tools at hand. So what do you need to turn the cloud into more than [...]

The BYOD craze brings with it a whole plethora of security risks and compliance issues. Employee devices in the workplace constitutes one of the largest headaches of IT staff all across the world, and it’s a trend that shows no signs of letting up. Aside from the security risks associated with improperly trained and educated employees, there’s also the matter of platform and system fragmentation. More than anything else, that’s one of the largest barriers to devising a suitable mobile strategy [...]

Even though the mobile wave has been taking the world of Enterprise by storm, it’s still very much the new kid on the block, along with cloud. There are still quite a few IT folks who aren’t quite sure how to approach the two- which often go hand in hand- and as a result, end up with less-than-stellar mobile solutions. This is a mistake, and worse, one that’s usually easily avoided with just a bit more understanding about how mobile works. That, and a hefty stock of aspirin. As we’ve already [...]

Friday saw Apple cutting a deal with Central Oregon officials, agreeing to pay local governments near their data center $150,000 a year for a 15-year property tax exemption. Both Prineville and Crook County are going to need to figure out how to split the payment, but it’s a sweet deal for Apple, either way. Speaking of their Prineville data center, Apple’s finally broken ground on it, and they’re still adamant that it’s going to be 100% renewable and completely environmentally friendly-Greenpeace [...]

Running a data center is an expensive, difficult, complex and time-consuming process. This is reality. Not every business has what it takes to maintain their own facility- but more and more businesses, particularly those in technology, need to make use of these mammoth computer farms, to say nothing of the data center operators that run them. Unfortunately, for all their importance, data centers can impose a terribly draining effect on one’s bankroll- to say nothing of the headaches operating a [...]

As we’ve already established time and time again, location is everything when it comes to constructing a top-notch data center. Where you’re building makes a big difference, and can change virtually everything about how your facility looks. You’re going to want to do everything in your power to make sure you chose right. Believe it or not, that’s actually easier than it sounds. With the rapid expansion of the data market, a lot of countries across the world are starting to realize just how [...]

The times, they are a-changin’. The data industry’s seen positively herculean growth over the past few years, to the point that data centers are becoming the beating heart of the tech industry. People are taking notice of facilities, stocks are on the rise, and more and more consumers are starting to get involved. The industry is in and of itself an ever-shifting, ever-changing, finely-tuned machine. Here’s a few of the most exciting, innovative, and downright vital changes and initiatives [...]

It’s that time of the week again- time for another edition of the Weekly Data Center Roundup.  Believe it or not, although we were party to some fairly significant developments, it was, all in all, a fairly slow week. Friday kicked into gear with the news that Google’s Data Center Spending has fallen in recent months- down to $607 million in the first quarter of 2012 from $951 million in Q4 2011. It’s highly unlikely that this signals any trouble in Google’s court- far likelier is the fact [...]