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08.31.10

Dell Hawks Its New Modular Data Center Dell has been relatively quiet about its modular data-center products, but on Tuesday it showed off a new design it has started selling to large "hyperscale" customers, which include big Internet firms like Microsoft and Facebook. Read more...

08.31.10

Water Cooling Returns to IBM Mainframe IBM next week will add water-cooling to a mainframe offering for the first time in 15 years; the company has started offering the technology fror blade servers and supercomputers in recent years. Read more...

08.30.10

Moving a Data Center? Avoid These Four Career-Limiting Mistakes Moving a data center is a major undertaking for most organizations. And a successful move is a nice resume builder for any IT professional. A successful move will showcase skills in large-scale project planning, project management, technology integration and interpersonal communications. The process provides a chance for exposure across the company, as virtually every department is touched by the IT organization (and affected by a data center move) in some way. Read more...

08.25.10

The Two Most Meaningful CRM Reports Any CRM system will be used all the time for reporting, but many of the reports won't provide much business guidance. These two really count, so consider what you need do to keep them meaningful. Read more...

08.24.10

Building a Private Cloud: Get Ready for a Bumpy Ride When cloud computing became a topic of discussion a few years ago, public clouds received the bulk of the attention, mostly due to the high-profile nature of public-cloud announcements from some of the industry's biggest names, including Google and Amazon. But now that the talk has turned into implementation, some IT shops have begun steering away from public clouds because of the security risks; data is outside the corporate firewall and is basically out of their control. Read more...