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• New at Disney: It's a Data Center World After All

  By Robert Lemos | 08 February, 2010 03:08

  Visitors to Disney's Epcot Center in Orlando can walk around the world, stopping at pavilions that aim to give them a taste of other countries. Now, Disney and IBM hope to give visitors a unique look at the information technology that delivers the modern world's everyday necessities as well.

• Five Lessons from a Data Center's Crisis of Capacity

  By Robert Lemos | 16 October, 2009 02:31

  When the data centre neared its failure point, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory embarked on a project to revamp facilities without breaking the budget. Consider these practical lessons from the edge of failure.

• EMC heats up competition with data center big four

  By Kevin Fogarty | 10 July, 2009 02:29

  EMC took square aim at the "big four" data center management software players-HP, IBM, CA and BMC- this week when it launched Ionix. The new Ionix business unit and brand name are designed to make more noise about what analysts call an under-appreciated set of broad capabilities in data-center management tools.

• How and why to create data destruction policies

  By Mark Grossman and Tate Stickles | 24 June, 2009 05:10

  We are collecting data at ever-increasing rates as the costs of data storage go down. Why get rid of our beloved data when we can always buy more storage space? Some companies like Google love collecting and working with data, and these companies will rarely or never get rid of their data. But odds are your company is not like Google and does not need all of that old data. This column will focus on crafting an effective data destruction policy.

• HP vs. Cisco: A data center smackdown looms?

  By Kevin Fogarty | 12 June, 2009 03:48

  Despite an overwhelming dominance of the networking business, Cisco has a target painted on its back, in the eyes of Hewlett-Packard.

• Casino giant doubles down on data center automation

  By Robert Lemos | 03 June, 2009 09:40

  Who's gambling on big technology investments in this down economy? At first glance, you might not guess that it would be the Las Vegas Sands Company, the owner of the Venetian and Palazzo Resorts in Las Vegas and the Sands Macau in China.

• Five Energy Trends Driving Your Data Center

  By Robert Lemos | 16 March, 2009 09:44

  What you really want from your data center is processing power and data storage, but what you need is to get a grip on escalating power costs. Keep these five issues in mind as you plan for your present and future energy-efficient data center.

• Six Steps to a Green Data Center

  By Darryl Wilson | 13 October, 2008 09:31

  Environmental issues exposed by the media and driven by consumers have placed IT departments under pressure to develop "green" data centers. Factors including the reduction of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in large data centers often provide the impetus for becoming green. A recent report issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) highlights the need for data center efficiency and demonstrates the increased pressure that IT departments are under.

• Data-center security tools to not overlook

  By Rick Cook | 10 October, 2008 12:37

  Protecting a corporate data center is like trying to keep an elephant safe from a swarm of flies. Despite your best efforts, bites happen. As the staples of security -- such as firewalls, antivirus software, spam and spyware filters -- come together in suites of products that allow for sophisticated management, there are other security tools either emerging or worth a rethink.