In a profession where anything can happen, it’s not a matter of if a disaster will strike, it’s when. That’s why a business continuity (BC) plan is so important. A BC plan lists the procedures a company follows to get back on its feet after the...

There’s no way around it: you need to use the cloud to make your IT agile and your data accessible for business analysis. Our e-book explains public, private and hybrid clouds and the three steps to develop a successful cloud strategy...

A good design alone does not ensure a data center is well-built and will remain efficient and available over the course of its life span. For each phase of the data center’s life cycle, proper care and action must be taken to continuously meet the...

“When should an older UPS be replaced with a new one?” is a question that virtually all data center owners will have to answer. The answer is not always self-evident and depends on several factors...

Mainfreight needed an easy-to-manage — yet state-of-the-art — datacenter that would meet present-day needs and support their growing global expansion. The challenge was completing it in three months, from design to implementation...

Small server rooms and branch offices are typically unorganized, unsecure, hot, unmonitored, and space constrained. These conditions can lead to system downtime or, at the very least, lead to “close calls” that get management’s...

Creating solutions that help IT professionals anticipate their information and data...

Edge compute (distributed IT) installations have become increasingly business critical. Deploying and operating IT at the edge of the network, however, comes with unique challenges. Solving them requires a departure from the traditional means of...

Several IT trends including internet of things (IoT) and content distribution networks (CDN) are driving the need to reduce telecommunications latency and bandwidth costs. Distributing “micro” data centers closer to the points of utilization...

Employees are your business's most important resource, so deploying an effective user management strategy is critical to achieving employee retention and productivity. And for organizations that have adopted a cloud or hybrid environment, they can...