IT
Single-Atom Transistor: Good or Bad News for Moore’s Law?
In the technology world, few things have been given more premature obituaries than Moore’s Law. But for traditional semiconductor transistor technology, an end will eventually be reached—the question is simply when that will be. Researchers at Australia’s University of New ... Read More »
Service Management in the Data Center Depends on IT Asset Management
The combination of technology changes and the adoption of service management has transformed data centers into IT service providers. Regardless of whether the business model includes external customers, data centers have more in common: offering IT services as products to ... Read More »
IT Security: The Scary New Hacking Trend
Starting with Operation Aurora—the brazen 2009 cyber attacks on Google and other large enterprises—through to the recent high-profile data breach that shut down certificate authority (CA) DigiNotar and the recent breach of VeriSign, hackers have learned to exploit a frightening ... Read More »
Cloud Transition Challenges: Getting a Grip on the IT Future
Every day at least 50 whitepapers, 10 ads and untold emails proclaim that moving to the cloud will solve all your IT problems. Once everything is virtualized, you’ll have no physical equipment to worry about, and the cloud will do ... Read More »
Data Centers Set for Growth in Central and Eastern Europe
Data centers have experienced tremendous growth rates over the past five years, and they now represent the most critical component of the Internet economy. Without data centers, the emerging cloud opportunities for agility and IT efficiency and for increased competitiveness ... Read More »
Improving Communication in the Data Center
Data center communication is about more than just machines talking to each other correctly; it’s also about employees and management exchanging information clearly, respectfully and honestly. Here are some tips to help foster a data center environment conducive to this ... Read More »
Orchestrated Operations: Five Keys to IT Success
IT operations is evolving in surprising ways. The obvious changes are the ones brought on by virtualization and the cloud. Five less obvious trends, however, are changing the dynamics of operations (or ops), each of which is defined and explained ... Read More »
“Business First” Thinking for IT Security
I spend much of my time as a mediator, a translator and a scout trying to find a path that will satisfy everyone. The regulators mandate that we respect customer, employee and financial data. Our business needs confidentiality and the ... Read More »
Can ARM’s 64-Bit Architecture Muscle Into the Server Market?
The race to higher server processor performance continues, but the spotlight has largely shifted to the race to lower power consumption. ARM, the undisputed king of low-power processors for mobile applications, has for some time had its sights set on ... Read More »
Remote Testing: the Achilles Heel of Cloud Services
Cloud services provide a new and promising opportunity for enterprises to address the growing complexity of information technology (IT). The availability of smartphones and the expectation of immediate and simple access to both private and company-specific information globally are driving ... Read More »
