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Last year, data center providers signed contracts for over 1.2 gigawatts of renewable energy, proving that energy efficiency in IT isn’t just an Earth Day promise—it’s an everyday action! By [...]

Datacate, a regional colocation provider, was recently in the market for new colocation space, but had strict requirements: Space had to come at the right price, but timing was the wrinkle. The [...]

Why do we call it an IT ecosystem? Because everything is interconnected, and one weakness causes ripples up and down your IT environment. Nothing that affects your network exists in a vacuum; [...]

A multinational conglomerate needed hardware fast. After deciding to spin off one of its businesses, it needed to build data centers to equip the new entity with servers and storage. The [...]

How important is proper data center cooling? If your equipment matters to you, it should be critically important. A data center with poor cooling measures can see temperatures rise 30 degrees in [...]

Flashback to 2008: 88 percent of businesses preferred an on-premises server solution. Merely six years later, in 2014, the preference flipped: 87 percent of businesses wanted a cloud-based [...]

Organizations considering colocation should be wary of big promises not documented in a contract, and costs much lower than other providers. As in most situations, a colocation data center [...]

Data centers are a lot like cafeterias for most organizations -- a necessity, but not something they want to manage. Frankly, most organizations are not in the business of making sandwiches or [...]

Gone are the days when IT professionals had to rack, stack, connect, and configure every piece of data center infrastructure. Now, you can plug in a single box, thanks to converged [...]

The need for speed is a central concern for data center operators. These admins juggle server virtualization, cloud computing, LAN/SAN convergence, and big data collection, all of which require [...]