The gigantic New York Health and Hospitals Corp. is a vast healthcare system of about $6.7 billion that connects 11 hospitals and nursing homes, 80 city clinics and treatment centers around the metropolitan area. When the New York hospitals embarked…
Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centers gained momentum on Wednesday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs. The company provided details about implementations of the…
My latest Forrester CIO client visits tell me economic uncertainty is actually helping IT leaders accelerate plans for the future. Sounds counterintuitive, right? Perhaps it’s just because I started in Europe, where the hourly ups and downs of sovereign debt…
Data center management is a broad term. In many data centers, management can be split into two broad categories: Information technology Mission critical facilities Information technology is the management of everything in the racks: network, servers, storage, security appliances, operating…
The illusion of data center uptime Most of the mid-size companies that visit our Midwest colocation facility already have a data center. It’s the one in their home office. These companies have built a data center inside the four walls…
