Data Center news from FierceCIO

Financial services companies looking to build a data center might want to consider Sioux Falls, S.D., reports Beth Bacheldor at ITworld. The mid-sized city is cold in the winter, relatively Read more...

If your company is looking for new ways to save money in 2012, the data center might be a good place to start. There is plenty of evidence to demonstrate that a greener data center can save not only Read more...

Back when the economy was rosy, a lot of organizations deployed data centers that they expected to run for maybe six to eight years before seeing a major refresh. But as uncertain times linger, CIOs Read more...

The biggest earthquake to strike Virginia in more than 100 years reverberated all the way to Maine and clogged up cell phone networks, but it doesn't appear to have had much of an impact on data Read more...

For every hour that your organization is subjected to a data center outage, it could be losing more than $300,000. The average cost of downtime to businesses is approximately $5,000 per minute, Read more...

State governments traditionally housed multiple, independent IT operations among their myriad agencies and departments, making them ripe test beds for IT consolidation. At the same time, state Read more...

Former mines and Cold War-era nuclear bunkers are being transformed into data centers as companies seek safer locations for their information. These underground facilities are protected from the Read more...

Correction: The original story stated that NOAA has "20 billion petabytes" of data. This has been changed to "20 petabytes" of data. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has more Read more...

New York City plans to save $100 million by merging 50 data centers serving 40 agencies into one facility located in Brooklyn. The hardware, software, gear and general construction for the warehouse Read more...

Minnesota plans to consolidate more than 36 data centers throughout the state into four or fewer over the next five years. The state is just the latest among many to seek to reduce costs and Read more...