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Sometimes things just don’t click. For example, have you ever had a conversation with someone and when you walked away, the first thought that popped into your head was, “What the heck did we just talk about?”

When the recession hit in 2008, the U.S. economy slowed dramatically. Large financial institutions collapsed and the country saw some of the worst unemployment rates since the Great Depression.

Schneider Electric has released PowerChute™ Network Shutdown v3.1 with enhanced virtualization support, a network-based server shutdown solution for IT equipment.

Peak® (formerly PeakColo) has announced that The Pinnacle Group® has slected Peak’s cloud platform to power all of its managed service offerings for medium-sized businesses across the United States.

Cristie Software has announced the launch of SBMR to the market, a bare machine recovery solution designed to recover directly from Commvault’s Simpana without requiring any additional backup.

IBM inventors have patented a cloud computing invention that can improve quality of service for clients by enabling data to be dynamically modified, prioritized and shared across a cloud environment.

As our world becomes ever more data centric, the data center and the energy it uses seems to become a focal point of criticism for groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, as well as many others.

Data centers are complicated, fluid, and sometimes risky places.

I would be remiss if I did not mention the year’s biggest news story (so far): the weather.

A colocation data center can provide IT facilities equipment, rack space, connectivity, and environmental support facilities, including power, cooling, physical security, and physical storage.