INFRASTRUCTURE

Wireless Network at FIT Brings IT Back Into Style

At FIT, the IT department is deploying a wireless network in a campus that includes multiple buildings in one of New York’s most densely populated areas.

Ten Technologies That Will Transform Data Centers

Here's a trivia question that only a CIO could love: "What's a memristor?" (No googling please, we'll give you the answer at the end of this slideshow.) That said, to provide a hint, it's one of the "Ten Technologies That Might Change Data Centers Forever," as presented by Andy Lawrence, research vice president at 451 Research. The ten... Read More »

Visa Network’s Excess Capacity Fuels Innovation

The payment-processing company’s network is built to accommodate up to 30,000 simultaneous transactions, and to support new services from its business partners.

Increasing Performance With Monitoring Solutions

In the corporate environment, ensuring that employees remain productive while still keeping everything secure is no easy task. For years now, CIOs have been imploring their business colleagues to add more resources to IT budgets, understanding that without them, monitoring the safety of the company will suffer. And when safety suffers, so will the company.

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The Ten Commandments of Disaster Recovery

How much can a flawed disaster recovery and business continuity plan cost you? Try an average of $90,000 for every hour of downtime among corporations, according to Strategic Research. Whether we're talking a hurricane, flood, terrorism or simply a loss of power, CIOs must consider every worst-case scenario and come up with a comprehensive failover and response strategy. In fact, the... Read More »

Seven Ways to Cut Data Center Costs

If CIOs are looking to reduce expenses in a big way, they may want to schedule a visit to their data centers—even if they may not like what they see. Indeed, these facilities consume enough energy worldwide to power 30 nuclear power plants or every single home in Italy, according to research from Green House Data. And they... Read More »

Making Data Centers' Power Usage Visible

ARC Productions uses data center infrastructure management software to better understand how electricity is being consumed inside its data center.

When to Upgrade Your Network

The CIOs of the San Francisco Giants and Omnicom's Diversified Agency Services share what they are learned about when to upgrade a network.

IT Getting Tough on March Madness Activity

While it’s fun, the upcoming March Madness college hoops tournament clearly can disrupt your IT operations. In fact, four of ten IT pros say the resulting streaming downloads and other content demand will impact network traffic, according to previously reported Read More »

Data Loss, Outages and Disaster Recovery

When it comes to IT priorities, much of the day-to-day focus is on the cloud, productivity, and lately, mobility. Security is a large concern, but it’s typically viewed as a secondary concern after a particular technology or solution is introduced into the company. For many IT professionals, trying to keep every project on target, and determining exactly what’s needed next or... Read More »