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Clemson's computational colossus
Peer inside one of the country's premiere university computational research centers and what will you find inside?
Citigroup LEEDS by example
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."
Thomson Reuters generates savings
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.
IBM's internal innovations
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.
Insight from Navisite
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.
PwC packs a punch
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.''
How green IT saves Citizens Bank $500,000 a year
Eliminating inefficient cooling techniques helps Citizens Bank save loads of cash on energy costs.
UC Berkeley tightens personal data security with data-masking tool
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...
Cisco telepresence cuts near $1M in travel costs for law firm
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.
Security disaster averted by financial firm's quick actions
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.
ROI doesn't always pan out with unified communications
Return on investment is a big but unfulfilled promise of unified communications.
HotSchedules gets hot database access
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.
10 Gigabit Ethernet and iWARP at heart of new supercomputer
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.
Dallas Cowboys deck out new stadium with Cisco video technology
The Dallas Cowboys this week signed a deal to outfit their brand new stadium with immersive and interactive video technology from Cisco.
Phishing using scary bait
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.
USGA hooks into IBM cloud
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.
Engineering firm picks Iron Mountain for cold storage
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.
Cloud computing: Pros and cons
Five reasons to embrace an external cloud; five reasons to stay away
Post-breach, Heartland plans aggressive encryption project
Heartland Payment Systems intends to deploy end-to-end encryption with its merchants to protect its payment processing system from cybercriminals.
Is it time to cut the Ethernet access cable?
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.