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CISPA and Internet Tax: While We Weren’t Looking
The recent Boston Marathon bombing and the subsequent—and perhaps equally disturbing—de facto martial law imposed by authorities in pursuing two suspects captured the attention of the U.S. In the meantime, however, legislators have been busy with other tasks: namely, attempting ... Read More »
Time to Rethink Network Security
On August 15, 2012, Saudi Arabia’s national oil and gas company, Aramco, suffered a debilitating cyberattack. More than 30,000 computers were rendered inoperable by the Shamoon virus. U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta described this virus as the most destructive ... Read More »
Who (and What) Is Next for Intel?
Next month, outgoing Intel CEO Paul Otellini will step down from his post amid a recent earnings drop and questions about the company’s future. The chip giant has yet to name a successor, but the next CEO will take the ... Read More »
Industry Perspective: Effective Passwords to Protect Your Business
Industry Perspective is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry Perspective asks Bill Carey about how companies can ensure that ... Read More »
Is Data Center Efficiency Worse Than You Think?
Regular reports of the latest high-efficiency data center could easily lead one to believe that data centers generally are becoming more efficient, even if overall power consumption is rising. If Facebook, Google or Yahoo can build a facility with a ... Read More »
New Categories for Data Center Best Practices (Part 3)
A Warm Front is Hitting Data Centers Parts One and Two of this series explained how new energy-management methodologies and approaches have changed best practices relating to disaster recovery and power capping. In this final installment, the focus shifts to ... Read More »
The Wacky IT Unemployment Picture
Economic indicators, both for IT and for the broader economy, seem to be all over the board. Whether you look at the rising stock market versus the falling median income in the U.S., or the rising IT manager hiring versus ... Read More »
Industry Perspective: Data Center Security Market
Industry Perspective is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry Perspective asks Rainer Enders about the security challenges that confront ... Read More »
ARM Versus Intel: Instant Replay of RISC Versus CISC
Intel, king of the desktop- and server-processor markets, sees opportunity in the burgeoning mobile market; ARM, king of the mobile market, believes it can take a sizable bite out of the data center. But will the upcoming battle leave a ... Read More »
New Categories for Data Center Best Practices (Part 2)
Power Capping Puts IT Back in Control Part One of this series, “Energy Management Innovations Redefine DR Practices,” explained how data center technology advancements have changed disaster recovery practices. Those same advancements also enable introduction of proactive practices that can ... Read More »
