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.
If you had a blank check, access to IBM's latest products and its best talent, and your task was to renovate a 2,000-square-foot legacy data center, the result would be IBM's sparkling showcase in Southbury, Conn.
If you're an enterprise data center manager, saving money on heating and cooling plays a role in your company's bottom line. But if you're a data center hosting company, reducing data center costs is your bottom line.
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.''
To better safeguard the personal data of its students, the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has adopted a specialized data-masking technique in its application development work that effectively can hide data in plain sight by...
Sprawling international law firm DLA Piper has upgraded from videoconferencing to telepresence that will save the firm nearly $1 million dollars per year in reduced travel costs and lost productivity.
While most of the IT world has been spared a devasting security attack like Blaster and Sasser for the last few years, the damage wrought by all manner lesser-known computer viruses continues to inflict corporate pain.
When Matthew Woodings, CTO for Hot Schedules, a workforce scheduling business in Austin, Texas, faced a growing business that was taxing his data center, he turned to Dell to virtualize his servers and storage.
The fact that Purdue was able to build its supercomputer by lunchtime Tuesday is pretty incredible. But the network equipment used is pretty interesting as well.
Job offers in phishing e-mail are designed to trick users into revealing confidential personally identifiable information (PII); they may also be hoping to fool victims into sending criminals some money.
Business resiliency was the main driver for the United States Golf Association when it recently chose the IBM cloud for email and data protection services.
With virtually every vendor on the planet jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon, sometimes it's difficult to tell whether a service is really cloud or simply a pre-existing offering that has the cloud label slapped on it.
As users rely ever more on wireless LANs for network access, some IT groups find the majority of costly wired ports now lie idle. It's time, they say, to rethink the network's edge.