Implementing Security-as-a-Service | Part 18 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Data center managers are busy people. Th...

Implementing Edge Data Centers | Part 17 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Despite the hoopla about edge data centers,...

Data Center Networking Upgrades | Part 16 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Driven by several factors, data center mana...

Summary How do we build sustainably? Moderator Ron Vokoun, Director of Critical Facilities at OAC Services, posed t...

Summary “It’s not what you think.” This was the unofficial theme of AFCOM’s “The State of Colocation” August webinar,...

Bridging the IT and Facilities Gap  | Part 15 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series IT and Facilities have long been se...

Data Center Automation  | Part 14 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Data centers have been becoming more automated...

Improving Disaster Recovery Capabilities  | Part 13 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Disaster recovery (DR) has be...

Coping With a Skeleton Crew  | Part 12 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series A combination of factors — the talent...

Dealing With Ransomware in the Data Center  | Part 11 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Ransomware is inducing pani...

Raising Rack Density  | Part 10 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Rack density is on the rise. In fact, the aver...

Repatriating Data from the Cloud  | Part 9 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series There’s so much data being sent f...

Migrating Data and Apps to the Cloud  | Part 8 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series It’s easy to believe that the clo...

Data Center Carbon Footprint | Part 7 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Many data centers proudly point to their power...

Data Center Personnel  | Part 6 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series There was a time when job vacancies were adverti...

Cybersecurity  | Part 5 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Ransomware attacks and malicious activity in general are...

MSP Services  | Part 4 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series Data center managers have been using software-as-a-servic...

Supply Chain  | Part 3 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series News stories abound about ports backed up and hundreds of...

From the Desk of Liz Cruz It was truly a fantastic four days in Austin last week! The show was packed with industry e...

Storage  | Part 2 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series To some, the storage industry must seem like an aging Hollywoo...

Server Refresh | Part 1 of AFCOM’s Consider This Series The regular rhythm of the data center was thoroughly interru...

Omdia's Moises Levy recently presented an AFCOM webinar on the trends to watch for data center physical infrastructure thi...

by Michael Gibbs In modern times, most computing is moving to the cloud. Why?  The answer is simple because...

by Oliver Lindner Change is constant, especially in modern data centers. Therefore, it’s crucial to implement manage...

by Vadim Vladimirskiy A recent wave of AWS outages clearly demonstrate that even the largest public clouds are not i...

by Amy Fowler   Hard-drive disks (HDD) have long since dominated the datacenter, providing enterprises...

by Jarrod Johnston Working in IT can be chaotic. Every day, someone is bringing you a new problem to solve. It could...

by Steve Brothers While the world of business changes rapidly in the face of ongoing digital transformation, one thi...

The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on every part of society, but perhaps no more than it has on women in the workplac...

by Calvin Nicholson Larger and more complex workloads are forcing a change in the data center cabinet. For example,...

AFCOM's Central Ohio Chapter met at the Cologix Columbus data centers on Dec. 1 to take care of local chapter business, an...

by Sandy Carter Information technology (IT) leaders and business decision makers around the globe agree on the m...

The colocation industry has evolved well beyond the space and power paradigm of a few years ago, That was the message that...

AFCOM's Potomac Chapter was one of several organizations recognized by the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) at...

by Carrie Goetz There is a lot of press about diversity and inclusion.  Women tend to come up often...