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While writing this column, I began to wonder if I am the only one who has noticed that for better or worse, Facebook’s “Open Kimono” policy is directly or indirectly challenging the industry to green-up.

ITAM is the business practice centered on software and hardware assets and their multifaceted roles within the organization. 

I was sitting around the Crosby family compound in mid-August when the power went out. Power outages are always disruptive—you never realize how many clocks you own until you have to reset them—but they are particularly distressing when it’s summer in Texas.

Over the last five years, the U.S. Department of Energy and the largest electrical utilities across the country have been working continuously to develop workable scenarios for meeting the future electrical power demand of our data centers.

In today’s cost-conscious business climate, every facet of operations is under greater scrutiny as organizations look to increase efficiency and cut costs.

Advanced technology, expanding hardware, and more customers to serve make implementing the right data center solution criti-cal—especially where decisions can be ‘life or death.’

Consulting engineers, hospital executives, and an electrical in-spector emphasize the importance of power reliability and data centers in hospitals

California data center’s industry leading PUE rating helps re-duce the cost of 2N standby power redundancy and improve reliability.

Headlines and stories providing anecdotal examples of data center downtime caused by various power quality (PQ)-related events abound.

At a recent DCIM seminar hosted by nLyte Software, RF Code, and Server Technology, guest moderator Bruce Taylor, vice president of the Uptime Institute (part of the 451 Research Group) referenced the Institute’s 2012 Survey results