Tag: Data Center

May 30, 2023

What’s the opposite of a data center? If you answered “the cloud,” as many do, you are arguably not thinking in the most effective way about what data centers do and the role they play within the IT industry. To […]

May 23, 2023

The people who maintain traditional data center systems have always objected to having IT assets managed by systems outside their firewalls. Years ago, when I predicted that this would happen, people would often laugh and not believe me. The signs […]

May 8, 2023

Cisco continues to invest in its customer experience (CX) group, which provides product lifecycle management and aims to ensure that customers get what they want out of their technology purchases. Alistair Wildman, senior vice president of Cisco Global Customer Experience, […]

May 1, 2023

Clearing space for the storage and compute needed for large language models — and the generative AI tools they power — is a priority for Google. “We are making our data centers more efficient, redistributing workloads and equipment where servers […]

April 5, 2023

As tech companies continue to lay off employees and cut budgets, data center managers will have to figure out how to get the most bang for their buck when securing cloud environments. Even the largest companies are slashing costs. For […]

February 13, 2023

A digital disruption pioneer, Uber had yet to commit to cloud. The company wrestled with technology debt, manual workloads and demanding on-prem systems, according to an Uber engineering September Blog post. “Our server fleet was growing rapidly and our tooling […]

January 24, 2023

Data center member organization AFCOM interviewed Hector Diaz, the Director for Data Center Strategy & Architecture at Johnson & Johnson, on the data center industry and its impact on the world. Hector is a member of AFCOM’s Data Center Institute […]

December 28, 2022

It’s easy enough to decommission or scale back on-premises software deployments after moving workloads to the cloud. But what about data center equipment? How do you rightsize your on-premises hardware after you migrate some of your applications to cloud-based virtual […]

December 16, 2022

Hybrid and multicloud initiatives will continue to shape enterprise IT in 2023, and the impact on data-center networking will be felt across key areas including security, management, and operations. Network teams are investing in technologies such as SD-WAN and SASE, […]

September 12, 2022

Is giving people the right to change, alter, and amend your software a good thing? What about doing this for your data? Companies used to think that publicizing their source code was the same as giving away their secret sauce. […]

August 22, 2022

CIOs and IT directors working on any project that involves data in any way are always more likely to succeed when the organisation has a clear view of the data it holds. Increasingly, organisations are using data classification to track […]

August 15, 2022

With market volatility on the rise and economic headwinds gathering, CIOs are looking to rent cloud-based IT infrastructure and software on subscription-based models rather than placing big tech bets on lump-sum investments. A recent Gartner report found cloud consulting and […]

June 10, 2022

I had to look it up in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Repatriation is “the act or process of restoring or returning someone or something to the country of origin, allegiance, or citizenship; the act of repatriating or the state of being […]

April 19, 2022

In recent times, the phrase “data is the new oil” has become an overused cliché. However, while it has helped create awareness around the value of data, many companies are still struggling to realise the full potential from the data […]

April 14, 2022

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides data replication, hosting, and recovery services from the cloud in the event of a disaster, power outage, ransomware attack, or other business interruption. DRaaS backs up data, applications, and IT infrastructure to the […]

April 8, 2022

SAP has offered its customers in Russia the option to move their cloud data out of the country before its data centers there are shut down, according to Ukrainian news portal The Kyiv Independent. In a March 23 letter from […]

March 28, 2022

Public cloud providers are quickly becoming the biggest buyers of data center infrastructure equipment, as purchasing of hardware and software both rebounded sharply in 2021, according to a recent report by Synergy Research Group. Overall spending grew by roughly 10% […]

February 28, 2022

There is a myth surrounding the cloud regarding it as a green technology. Though we love cloud computing, people tend to think that if they bring their technology to the cloud, they’re being green. Much of this misconception comes from […]

February 21, 2022

As cloud continues to boom, it’s easy—but wrong—to assume that it may supplant open source. After all, much of the reason open source took off was that it enables developers to “get stuff done” without having to route requests for […]

February 16, 2022

Spending on cloud services reached a total of $178 billion in 2021, a 37% increase over the $130 billion spent in 2020 and twice the amount enterprises are spending on their data centers, according to Synergy Research Group. For the […]