by Carrie Goetz We have all been there.  Times get tough and the budget purse strings get shorter.  The fi...

The Potomac AFCOM Chapter joined forces with P DI and VCU to name two recipients of data center internships. F...

By Carrie Goetz With Gartner predicts that 2019 global IT spending will increase 3.2 percent to $3.76 trillion with...

by Karen Riccio B ill Skinner, president of AFCOM's NYC/NJ Metro chapter, used five simple words to describe...

by Marcus Moliteus After attending a data center industry event earlier this year, and speaking with leading enginee...

by Amnon Drori When the coronavirus pandemic is eventually throttled by the current efforts to force social distanc...

by Carrie Goetz What if you found out you were paying for power you were not consuming?  What if you were worki...

by Hans O’Sullivan The explosion of data outside of the traditional data center has driven the market to a more hybr...

by Jeff Gilmer You’d think in this day and age that all companies would have a concrete strategy for handling disast...

by Mark Kidd In 2020, the data center industry will continue to undergo countless innovations and discoveries, but abo...

by Carrie Goetz Recently I read a discussion on LinkedIn asking if CIO stood for “Career is Over?”  While I mus...

by Carrie Goetz I recently spoke at an event in Moscow, Russia; and one of the questions that came during the Q&A...

An AFCOM member recently emailed Carrie Goetz about her article on the " Great Talent Migration " because it resonated str...

by Carrie Goetz With many data centers at or near capacity, stranded power is gaining a lot of focus.  So what...

by Aaron Johnson  In the rapidly-evolving data-hungry IT environment, data center management is becoming increa...

by Carrie Goetz At the start of the colo industry, the key cities coincidentally also happened to be NFL cities. The...

by Mike Root We all know that downtime caused by IT outages can be costly. As much as $300,000 per hour according to...

Technology changes nearly as quickly as the calendar flips. A new device or upgrade that was trending not long ago may bec...

In this third edition of our State of the Data Center Report  we’ve introduced a few new topics. These include people...

by Alex Fielding There exists a notion today that the world is well on its way to becoming paperless. But that is more...

by Drew Robb Not everyone has the resources to build an entirely new data center from the ground up using the latest...

by Drew Robb Not everyone has the resources to build an entirely new data center from the ground up using the latest...

by Karen Riccio Here's the next installment of our Question of the Week series, in which we tap into the...

by Rob Coenen To meet increasing consumer and enterprise demand for data (especially from video streaming and IoT d...

Here's another profile in a new campaign for 2019 called hashtag # IamtheDataCenter , where we interview folks...

By Carrie Goetz The data center of today is built, run, and operated by the various disciplines within the space. ...

by Grant Gross, Data Center Knowledge The data center job market is changing as companies adopt cloud computing and...

by David S. Linthicum The cloud has revolutionized the way we build IT systems within enterprises. Indeed, enterprise...

Understanding the Importance of Electrical Consumption, Global Climate Change by Kevin Kent The most recent cli...

This is the first profile in a new campaign for 2019 called hashtag # IamtheDataCenter , where we interview fol...

Hello AFCOM Members! We’re off to a terrific start in 2019! The Data Center World conference is less than two months aw...

by Bostjan Kaluza, Phd . IT operations teams often focus on more than one approach to infrastructure monitoring,...

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...

DCI Whitepaper Series Five Bold Predictions for Data Centers in 2019 Never in the history of technology and data...

Here's another profile in our new campaign for 2019 called hashtag # IamtheDataCenter , where we interview...