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Nailing Down Resource Allocation: The Key to IT Project Investment

The economic downturn may finally be changing directions, but it still has a damper on every aspect of business, including IT departments. Even with some of the recent signs of recovery, businesses remain keen on cost savings, and spending is still prioritized around maintaining operations versus new initiatives and challenges. With budgets and resources remaining limited, companies need to be mindful of high-value projects going by the wayside. Businesses can recover by working smarter with fewer resources while maintaining high levels of quality and service. This is no easy task, but if everyone—from top to bottom—carefully considers what they’re implementing, the dollars spent will go toward the most worthwhile programs. To best allocate available resources, you’ll need to break down ... Read more

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A $35 Tablet Computer?

The cloud is fast becoming a popular option for businesses looking to outsource their IT infrastructure, thereby reducing initial capital expenditures and gaining access to IT resources on a pay-as-you-go basis. The recent unveiling in India of a prototype tablet computer that could cost as little as $35 may signal a greater cloud-computing presence in the consumer market as well. The device, if delivered, would be a much-lower-cost alternative to Apple’s popular tablet computer, the iPad.According to Network World (“What Could You Do With a $35 Tablet?”), the prototype tablet includes 2GB of RAM, USB support, and integrated Wi-Fi connectivity. The device runs a Linux variant, and it includes no built-in storage; instead, it uses a removable memory card. Its ... Read more

IT News

Government Googled

Rakesh Dogra | COMMENTS

Google Inc, a behemoth in the world of cloud computing, has recently made the U.S. government one of its clients for its cloud-computing services. The Google Apps for Government announcement came at a press event at Google headquarters after the ... Read more

Makes Sense To Go The Synapsense Way

Rakesh Dogra | COMMENTS

SynapSense Corporation was founded in 2006 in Folsom, California. It offers wireless instrumentation and energy-efficiency solutions. This smart-grid developer focuses heavily on the environment, and its solutions promise decreased carbon emissions and higher power efficiency. It assures data center operators ... Read more

The CMDB as the Brain of IT

Gerry Roy | COMMENTS

The human brain is amazingly complex. It gathers and stores information, processes information into knowledge, and then orchestrates action on the basis of that knowledge. Over the years, computers have often been compared to the human brain. In fact, some ... Read more

Design News

Modular Electrical Design in Data Centers

Best Practices | COMMENTS

A business planning construction of a new data center has numerous critical decisions that it must make throughout the process. One of the first decisions it must make is how “big” a data center to build. Not only must the ... Read more

Shifting Cloud Patterns

Best Practices | COMMENTS

The cloud is promising to get thicker, more nebulous, and more complex. More and more companies are hitching their wagon to the cloud in an attempt to cut costs and increase operational efficiency. The cloud (or cloud computing) is being ... Read more

The Star of the Show

Best Practices | COMMENTS

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced Energy Star, a joint program with the Department of Energy, with a view to enabling people to make energy-efficient choices. The Energy Star certification helps ensure that consumers and businesses are choosing products ... Read more

Facilities News

Google Looking to the Wind for Power

Electrical | COMMENTS

The power consumption of data centers is growing steadily. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that data centers consume 1.5% of the nation’s total power usage—and this figure is projected to grow in coming years. Contrasting ... Read more

New Recommendations for Measuring Data Center PUE

Electrical | COMMENTS

Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a common metric for determining and publishing the energy efficiency of a data center. Like most such metrics, however, companies that are unscrupulous or that are not careful in how they measure PUE can produce ... Read more

Apple's Billion-Dollar Data Center

Construction | COMMENTS

Apple has taken a big bite out of Maiden, North Carolina—500,000 square feet on 225 acres, to be precise. The company’s data center has a budget of $1 billion and is said to be almost five times the size of ... Read more

Press Releases

Cloud computing delivering on its promise but doub

IT Press Releases | COMMENTS

Mimecast, a leading supplier of cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, today announced the results of the second annual Mimecast Cloud Adoption Survey, an annual research report examining attitudes to cloud computing services among IT decision-makers in UK ... Read more

Eaton 9395 is First UPS to Achieve SMaRT Gold Cert

Facilities Press Releases | COMMENTS

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation today announced the Eaton 9395 uninterruptible power system (UPS) is the first power quality product to receive a Sustainable Materials Rating Technology (SMaRT) Gold certification. This makes the 9395 the first UPS certified to contribute ... Read more

Purdue University Increases Research Capabilities

Facilities Press Releases | COMMENTS

HP today announced that Purdue University is using the container-based HP Performance-optimized Data Center (POD) to expand and speed its ability to deliver research projects.Known for its world-leading research in nanotechnology, structural biology and atmospheric chemistry, Purdue is committed in ... Read more

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