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Thursday, October 27, 2022 Implementing DCIM \| Top Considerations » Implementing DCIM \| Part 21 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) systems help...
Thursday, October 27, 2022 Serverless Computing \| Top Considerations » Serverless Computing \| Part 20 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Serverless computing is a way to provide an abstracti...
Thursday, October 27, 2022 Software-Defined Data Center Transformation \| Top Considerations » Software-Defined Data Center Transformation \| Part 19 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series The software-defined data cente...
Thursday, October 27, 2022 Implementing Security-as-a-Service \| Top Considerations » Implementing Security-as-a-Service \| Part 18 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Data center managers are busy people. Th...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 Implementing Edge Data Centers \| Top Considerations » Implementing Edge Data Centers \| Part 17 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Despite the hoopla about edge data centers,...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 Data Center Networking Upgrades \| Top Considerations » Data Center Networking Upgrades \| Part 16 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Driven by several factors, data center mana...
Monday, September 26, 2022 Webinar Recap \| Best Practices in Sustainable Data Center Construction » Summary How do we build sustainably? Moderator Ron Vokoun, Director of Critical Facilities at OAC Services, posed t...
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 Webinar Recap \| The State of Colocation » Summary “It’s not what you think.” This was the unofficial theme of AFCOM’s “The State of Colocation” August webinar,...
Friday, August 26, 2022 Bridging the IT and Facilities Gap \| Top Considerations » Bridging the IT and Facilities Gap \| Part 15 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series IT and Facilities have long been se...
Friday, August 26, 2022 Data Center Automation \| Top Considerations » Data Center Automation \| Part 14 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Data centers have been becoming more automated...
Friday, August 26, 2022 Improving Disaster Recovery Capabilities \| Top Considerations » Improving Disaster Recovery Capabilities \| Part 13 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Disaster recovery (DR) has be...
Friday, August 26, 2022 Coping With a Skeleton Crew \| Top Considerations » Coping With a Skeleton Crew \| Part 12 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series A combination of factors — the talent...
Friday, August 26, 2022 Dealing With Ransomware in the Data Center \| Top Considerations » Dealing With Ransomware in the Data Center \| Part 11 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Ransomware is inducing pani...
Thursday, August 25, 2022 Raising Rack Density \| Top Considerations » Raising Rack Density \| Part 10 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Rack density is on the rise. In fact, the aver...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 Repatriating Data From the Cloud to the Data Center \| Top Considerations » Repatriating Data from the Cloud \| Part 9 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series There’s so much data being sent f...
Monday, July 25, 2022 Migrating Data and Apps to the Cloud \| Top Considerations » Migrating Data and Apps to the Cloud \| Part 8 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series It’s easy to believe that the clo...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 Carbon Footprint of the Data Center \| Top Considerations » Data Center Carbon Footprint \| Part 7 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Many data centers proudly point to their power...
Friday, June 10, 2022 Training Data Center Personnel \| Top Considerations » Data Center Personnel \| Part 6 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series There was a time when job vacancies were adverti...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 Improving Cybersecurity \| Top Considerations » Cybersecurity \| Part 5 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Ransomware attacks and malicious activity in general are...
Monday, April 25, 2022 Using MSP Services \| Top Considerations » MSP Services \| Part 4 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Data center managers have been using software-as-a-servic...
Friday, April 8, 2022 Coping with a Supply Chain Slowdown \| Top Considerations » Supply Chain \| Part 3 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series News stories abound about ports backed up and hundreds of...
Friday, April 1, 2022 That's a Wrap on Data Center World 2022! » From the Desk of Liz Cruz It was truly a fantastic four days in Austin last week! The show was packed with industry e...
Thursday, March 17, 2022 Adding More Storage \| Top Considerations » Storage \| Part 2 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series To some, the storage industry must seem like an aging Hollywoo...
Thursday, March 3, 2022 Time for a Server Refresh \| Top Considerations » Server Refresh \| Part 1 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series The regular rhythm of the data center was thoroughly interru...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 2022 Trends to Watch for Data Center Physical Infrastructure » Omdia's Moises Levy recently presented an AFCOM webinar on the trends to watch for data center physical infrastructure thi...
Monday, January 31, 2022 Reliance on One Cloud Provider Recipe for Disaster » by Michael Gibbs In modern times, most computing is moving to the cloud. Why? The answer is simple because...
Monday, January 3, 2022 The Flash-Native Future is Coming, and You’ll Like its Price Tag » by Amy Fowler Hard-drive disks (HDD) have long since dominated the datacenter, providing enterprises...
Monday, January 3, 2022 Five Backup and Recovery Practices to Protect Your Azure-Hosted Virtual Desktop Investment » by Vadim Vladimirskiy A recent wave of AWS outages clearly demonstrate that even the largest public clouds are not i...
Monday, January 3, 2022 How to Future-Proof Your Data Center Management Through Smart Integrations » by Oliver Lindner Change is constant, especially in modern data centers. Therefore, it’s crucial to implement manage...
Monday, December 20, 2021 Building a Reliable IT Foundation » by Jarrod Johnston Working in IT can be chaotic. Every day, someone is bringing you a new problem to solve. It could...
Monday, December 13, 2021 Cognitive Automation: Leveraging AI to Simplify the Mainframe » by Steve Brothers While the world of business changes rapidly in the face of ongoing digital transformation, one thi...
Monday, December 13, 2021 How Women, Companies Can Close the Gender Gap » The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on every part of society, but perhaps no more than it has on women in the workplac...
Monday, December 13, 2021 Today's Alternative Architecture is Tomorrow's Standard Facility » by Calvin Nicholson Larger and more complex workloads are forcing a change in the data center cabinet. For example,...
Monday, December 6, 2021 Central Ohio Chapter Welcomes Tina Lyden to Meeting » AFCOM's Central Ohio Chapter met at the Cologix Columbus data centers on Dec. 1 to take care of local chapter business, an...
Monday, December 6, 2021 The Strategic Power of Data-led Cloud Migration » by Sandy Carter Information technology (IT) leaders and business decision makers around the globe agree on the m...
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