Companies are moving to cloud services.

At a recent 7x24 Exchange conference, MTechnology proposed a replacement/alternative or addition to the data center Tier levels.

What if you found out you were paying for power you were not consuming?

Everyone should be aware that we have mandates to lower power consumption in our Government data centers.

In IT, there are many words of advice. It seems that these days everyone seems to be marketing the “best” and “only” solutions for everything from power and cooling to data transactions.

When you look at all the various departments in a data center and their various budgets, this does not create the best environment for the company’s overall interests.

It never ceases to amaze me how many vendors tout a “one size fits all” solution.

TIA 942 was the first data center cabling standard in the U.S. Many countries either follow or at least use its guidance.

We have become commoditized in some of our purchasing decisions and very picky in others. Some companies sole source networking gear for instance, then buy the least expensive infrastructure to run it on, and open spec everything else with the least expensive winning the business.