When PricewaterhouseCoopers U.S. CIO Stuart Fulton walks through the company's spankin' new data center, opened this month, he finds "cool things around just about every corner.''
Peer inside one of the country's premiere university computational research centers and what will you find inside?
Jim Carney, executive vice president of data center planning for Citigroup, likes to describe the company's newest compute facilities as "24/7 by forever."
When temperatures dip below zero, homes and businesses in Eagan, Minn., crank up their heat, creating a peak load on the local power company, Dakota Electric.
Steve Hassell, CIO at global technology and engineering giant Emerson, is only half joking when he suggests that before his career is over the data center will comprise one rack sitting in the middle of a white room.
By now, companies that have put business applications on smartphones or other handheld devices know of the competitive advantages they can gain. The more detailed and relevant the information at hand, the greater the opportunity an employee has to close a sale, improve delivery times -- or even save a life.
At Chicago-based railcar operator TTX, Rob Zelinka, has taken the company's "Forward Thinking" motto to heart.
As virtualization evolves over the next several years, management will play a bigger and bigger role.
The phrase "bare-metal client hypervisor" is a mouthful, but one IT execs ought to get used to saying in the coming years.
Back in February, while Louisville, Ky., was defrosting after a freak storm buried the city in ice, IT exec Brian Cox was dreaming not of warmer climes but of desktop virtualization.
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