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Monday, June 24, 2019
When Is It Safe to Ignore an End-of-Life Notice? »
by Carrie Goetz We have all been there.  Times get tough and the budget purse strings get shorter.  The fi...
Monday, June 17, 2019
​Potomac Chapter Names Summer Interns - Aims to Fill Skills Gap »
The Potomac AFCOM Chapter joined forces with P DI and VCU to name two recipients of data center internships. F...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Soaring Into the Clouds the Right Way »
By Carrie Goetz With Gartner predicts that 2019 global IT spending will increase 3.2 percent to $3.76 trillion with...
Monday, June 10, 2019
'Best Golf Event Ever ...' »
by Karen Riccio B ill Skinner, president of AFCOM's NYC/NJ Metro chapter, used five simple words to describe...
Monday, June 3, 2019
Data Centers Must Move from Reducing Energy to Controlling Water »
by Marcus Moliteus After attending a data center industry event earlier this year, and speaking with leading enginee...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Automation for Data Management During the Crisis »
by Amnon Drori When the coronavirus pandemic is eventually throttled by the current efforts to force social distanc...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
​PDU Efficiency Matters! »
by Carrie Goetz What if you found out you were paying for power you were not consuming?  What if you were worki...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Making the Complex Simple: New Demands for Edge Environments »
by Hans O’Sullivan The explosion of data outside of the traditional data center has driven the market to a more hybr...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Eight Key Steps to Create a Successful Disaster Recovery Plan »
by Jeff Gilmer You’d think in this day and age that all companies would have a concrete strategy for handling disast...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Empower Your Green Power »
by Mark Kidd In 2020, the data center industry will continue to undergo countless innovations and discoveries, but abo...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Does 'CIO' Stand for 'Career Is Over?' »
by Carrie Goetz Recently I read a discussion on LinkedIn asking if CIO stood for “Career is Over?”  While I mus...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
What are Your Operating Expenses and Maintenance Costs? »
by Carrie Goetz I recently spoke at an event in Moscow, Russia; and one of the questions that came during the Q&A...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Talent Migration Resonates with AFCOM Members »
An AFCOM member recently emailed Carrie Goetz about her article on the " Great Talent Migration " because it resonated str...
Monday, April 15, 2019
Combating Stranded Power in the Data Center »
by Carrie Goetz With many data centers at or near capacity, stranded power is gaining a lot of focus.  So what...
Monday, April 8, 2019
Data Center and Server Room Considerations: What You Need to Know »
by Aaron Johnson  In the rapidly-evolving data-hungry IT environment, data center management is becoming increa...
Monday, April 8, 2019
The Great Talent Migration »
by Carrie Goetz At the start of the colo industry, the key cities coincidentally also happened to be NFL cities. The...
Monday, April 1, 2019
Avoiding Downtime in a Hybrid Environment »
by Mike Root We all know that downtime caused by IT outages can be costly. As much as $300,000 per hour according to...
Monday, April 1, 2019
Five Outdated IT Practices that Need to be Eliminated »
Technology changes nearly as quickly as the calendar flips. A new device or upgrade that was trending not long ago may bec...
Monday, March 18, 2019
The 2019 State of the Data Center Report »
In this third edition of our State of the Data Center Report  we’ve introduced a few new topics. These include people...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Disaster Recovery, Security Plans Should Include Digitizing Paper Records »
by Alex Fielding There exists a notion today that the world is well on its way to becoming paperless. But that is more...
Monday, March 11, 2019
Leaving a Green Footprint: Ignoring Sustainability is Unsustainable »
by Drew Robb Not everyone has the resources to build an entirely new data center from the ground up using the latest...
Monday, March 11, 2019
Leaving a Green Footprint: Ignoring Sustainability is Unsustainable »
by Drew Robb Not everyone has the resources to build an entirely new data center from the ground up using the latest...
Friday, March 8, 2019
DCI Board on Data Centers Five Years Down the Road »
by Karen Riccio Here's the next installment of our Question of the Week series, in which we tap into the...
Monday, March 4, 2019
How to Get Your Data Center Ready for 100G »
by Rob Coenen To meet increasing consumer and enterprise demand for data (especially from video streaming and IoT d...
Monday, February 25, 2019
I’m Kyle Moore and #IAmTheDataCenter »
Here's another profile in a new campaign for 2019 called hashtag # IamtheDataCenter , where we interview folks...
Monday, February 25, 2019
Soup to Servers - Fundamentals of Data Center Design »
By Carrie Goetz The data center of today is built, run, and operated by the various disciplines within the space. ...
Monday, February 18, 2019
New AFCOM Career Center Can Help Navigate Changing Data Center Job Market »
by Grant Gross, Data Center Knowledge The data center job market is changing as companies adopt cloud computing and...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Creating a Public Cloud Experience In-House »
by David S. Linthicum The cloud has revolutionized the way we build IT systems within enterprises. Indeed, enterprise...
Monday, February 11, 2019
Understanding the Importance of Electrical Consumption, Global Climate Change »
Understanding the Importance of Electrical Consumption, Global Climate Change by Kevin Kent The most recent cli...
Monday, January 28, 2019
I’m Sam Rudek and #IAmTheDataCenter »
This is the first profile in a new campaign for 2019 called hashtag # IamtheDataCenter , where we interview fol...
Monday, January 28, 2019
Thanks, and ​Looking Forward to a Great 2019! »
Hello AFCOM Members! We’re off to a terrific start in 2019! The Data Center World conference is less than two months aw...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
An Underlying Pillar of IT Operations Analytics: Machine Learning »
by Bostjan Kaluza, Phd . IT operations teams often focus on more than one approach to infrastructure monitoring,...
Monday, January 14, 2019
Key Considerations When Building a New Data Center »
by Phil Rafferty Ninety percent of the world’s data was created in the last two years, and more than 2.5 exabytes of n...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Five Bold Predictions for the Data Center in 2019 »
DCI Whitepaper Series Five Bold Predictions for Data Centers in 2019 Never in the history of technology and data...
Monday, January 7, 2019
I'm Kevin Kent, and #IAmTheDataCenter »
Here's another profile in our new campaign for 2019 called hashtag # IamtheDataCenter , where we interview...

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