Speak Human! Should IT Workers Learn to Speak to the Layperson?
As an IT professional, you are one of the busiest employees at any organization. Not only do you multitask problem solving for issues that come in at unpredictable rates, but…
What is the Growth Potential for IT Jobs and Data Center Specialists Over the Next 10 Years?
While unemployment rates have eased slightly as of late (falling under 6% for the first time since 2008), the effects of the recent recession are still felt in numerous industries….
Rethinking Data Center Operations in IoT Era
There are interesting notes from Gartner’s Infrastructure, Operations and Data Center Summit 2014 held on May 21-22 in Sydney. Quoting directly from Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at Gartner, “IoT deployments…
The Effect of Cloud Computing on the Data Center
In May of 2012, I have published a blog post and discussed the types and the evolution of the data center. In this article, I will take the discussion further…
Surviving A Critical System Outage
From an IT pro’s perspective, a system outage is the time when that cold sweat is running down your spine because a system you are managing and your company depends…
CIO Perspective: Things to Consider Before Co-locating Your Data Center
Co-locating your data center is essentially moving some of your data center to an outside company. An example of that can be giving your Microsoft Exchange infrastructure to a host,…
Let’s admit it. We all commit stupid sins and hope that nobody catches them. We do it in our own computers, sometime in our friends’ computers (and spend hours trying…
Most Common Unrealized Data Center Mistakes: #3 Lack of Proper Business Mind
I am always amazed that the IT people operate in a very disciplined, task-oriented manner but fail to understand how people think and work, let alone working in harmony with…
Most Common Unrealized Data Center Mistakes: #2 Lack of Proper Operations
I have spoken about the most common mistakes in the planning phase in my previous article. Although there are companies that have correctly passed through the planning phase, they make…
Types of Data Centers: Steps to the Cloud
In our way to the cloud, we come across four types of data centers: the traditional data center, the highly virtualized data center, private cloud and public cloud. A hybrid…
The formal definition is, well “formal” and we’re inclined to think it like a definition that has been made specifically to confuse rather than explain, but we will start with…
Common Web Hosting Terms And What They Mean
If you’re new to the world of web hosting, you may find yourself swamped with endless lists of terminology that sound like Greek to your fresh ears. Website hosting, like…