The real problems in an SSAE 16 data center may be the ones you don’t see. The reason is that SSAE 16 compliance takes different forms, financial and ...

The simple answer to this question is to first look at supply and then at demand. However, without digging deeper into both aspects, you might well ...

Mission critical facilities for IT are certainly getting bigger, but does that mean they are ecologically friendlier too? As size goes up, and power ...

If you think an auditor is somebody whose job is simply to tell you what you’re doing wrong in your data center, it may be time to update your ideas ...

If you’re wondering what kind of question that is (“Can data center maintenance build enterprise value?”), you might like to try the following ...

If you are in the data center business, it’s likely that you have already heard of AFCOM, together with the Data Center Institute, Data Center ...

When trying to decide whether or not to colocate your IT systems, it’s hard to beat a good old-fashioned ‘Benjamin Franklin’ decision sheet. The idea ...

Is it time to panic? Or is a market oversupply of data center capacity just a myth that keeps coming back from one year to the next? Depending on the ...

We live in a world of ‘always-on’. Almost at any cost. Data centers are a prime example of resources and infrastructure destined to function ...