Data Center news from FierceCIO

Data centers are ignoring the potential threat of cyberterrorism, according to recent surveys. And while center mangers are looking for ways to make a system run more efficiently, a recent AFCOM... Read more...

Data centers are popping up across the country as a never-ending stream of new Internet applications strains the nation's information storage capabilities. Worldwide demand for data centers is... Read more...

Take a look at the state of California if you want a lesson on how to shrink the growing size of data centers. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has issued an executive order calling for a drastic... Read more...

The difficulty getting financing and reluctance by some IT executives to make big investments has forced companies to scrap plans to build their own data centers. As a result, the rental business is... Read more...

Wanted: IT professionals skilled in running data centers. It's an up and coming field with plenty of opportunity. The problem is that there isn't enough IT talent to fill these jobs, according to... Read more...

The recession has taken its toll on the operation of data centers. A new survey of IT executives acknowledges that they have made significant cutbacks in this business unit and may be looking for... Read more...

Cisco and Hewlett Packard are working to put together new Ethernet standards designed to ease the glaring weakness in the industry when it comes to handling virtual machines in the datacenter.... Read more...

Data center managers are looking for a better year in 2010--one that brings more money and technologies that help them improve their bottom line. "They're hoping to see budgets again in 2010," Roger... Read more...

The owner's manual is still being written for data centers, and now there's new thinking on data center cooling. Some IT execs are running data centers hotter without any problems. Microsoft, however... Read more...

One of the data centers hosting Amazon's EC2 Cloud service experienced problems mid-week that resulted in some operations being interrupted. A one-line status report on Amazon's Service Health... Read more...