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Friday, July 17, 2020
IT Can Prove ROI with Tighter Asset Management »
by Ian Aitchison   The job hiring outlook post COVID-19 is a mixed one. According to Manpower, the third quarter...
Monday, July 13, 2020
The History of Data Centers »
by Christian Pruett Data centers are 130 years old. Something about that does not look right. It makes se...
Monday, July 6, 2020
IT and Facilities: Keeping the Peace, Part 2 »
Editor's Note:  This is the second part of a two-part series in which AFCOM members share their best practices for es...
Monday, July 6, 2020
When FOMO Becomes a National Creed »
By Dr. Julie M. Albright The Industrial Era is in its twilight, giving way  to  the rising Digital Era, wh...
Monday, June 29, 2020
IT and Facilities: Keeping the Peace »
IT and Facilities: Keeping the Peace Editor's Note:  In this is the first of a two-part series, AFCOM members sha...
Monday, June 29, 2020
The Death of the Data Center, or Your Career? »
by Ashish Nanjiani It’s no longer a surprise that the number of new data centers being built by enterprises around t...
Monday, June 22, 2020
Apollo's Computer Could Outsmart Today's Appliances »
by Brian Gillooly I first encountered Frank O’Brien months ago when I was browsing the news headlines about the 50th...
Monday, June 22, 2020
Liquid Immersion Cooling Keeps Maintenance Low »
by Jim Weynand   As we navigate the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, data centers are proving their wo...
Monday, June 22, 2020
Taking a Value-based Approach to Decommissioning »
by Rich Soucie   Talking to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Knoxvi...
Monday, June 15, 2020
The Thriving Path to Product Manager »
by Denis Litvinov Nowadays, a Product Manager (PM) is one of the most popular professions in the tech industry. Tale...
Monday, June 8, 2020
IT Careers: Ten Industries with Job Openings »
by Cynthia Harvey As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the economy, many IT workers have experience...
Monday, June 8, 2020
The Pillars of Security »
by Carrie Goetz Breaches make headlines often. Some are cyber, some are physical, some are enacted by ill-intent...
Monday, June 1, 2020
Guzzling Data Centers Not Sustainable »
by Kyle Myers Water has long been thought of as free or cheap, especially when compared to electricity. After all, 7...
Monday, May 18, 2020
Distributing to Scale: Predicting the Cloud of the Future »
by Jonathan Seelig  Public cloud infrastructure has transformed the IT landscape. For well over a decade...
Monday, May 18, 2020
Your Cloud Went Down ... Now What? »
by Theresa Miller With so many businesses dependent on the cloud giants, what happens if there is an outage?...
Friday, May 8, 2020
The Cost-effective Way to Increase Data Center Capacity »
by Mark Adams Global compute capability is changing: small, medium and large enterprises are shifting workloads off th...
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Omdia Provides Recommendations to IT Decision-makers »
Omdia, the research arm of Informa Tech, recently released its report, “ COVID-19 Market Impact on Cloud and Data Center:...
Monday, May 4, 2020
Data Centers: Engines of the New Normal »
by Fredrik Jansson After years of quietly working in the shadows, keeping things going and supporting the grad...
Monday, May 4, 2020
Five Key Impacts of COVID-19 on IT Infrastructure »
by Michael Orell As 1.2 million corporate data centers are expected to close by 2021, according to Computerworld, C...
Monday, April 27, 2020
Best Practices: CFD Modeling a Reality in Data Centers »
by Paul Bemis The use of CFD modeling during the design phase of data center is not a new idea. In fact, this approa...
Monday, April 27, 2020
AFCOM's Chapter Award Winners »
Each year, we honor AFCOM's most   deserving   chapt e rs and members with awards for their various achievements...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
COVID-19: The Financial Data-Management Dimension »
by  Susan Cook The U.S. Federal Government has launched an array of financial-rescue programs, from the Fami...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Quick: Name the Top 10 TV Shows from 1980 »
by Karen Riccio Unfortunately, when we look back at history and 2020, it will forever be known as the year of the CO...
Monday, April 6, 2020
Your Guide to HIPAA Contingency Plan Compliance With DraaS »
Your Guide to HIPAA Contingency Plan Compliance With DraaS by Veronica Miller Due to healthcare reform and a bro...
Monday, March 23, 2020
Computational Storage Solves Content Delivery, Security Puzzles »
by Scott Shadley Because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, streaming is surging across the globe.  Even prior...
Monday, March 16, 2020
Monitoring Options in the Data Center »
by Marc Cram For most people, predicting the future by looking at the past is at best a difficult exercise in makin...
Monday, March 16, 2020
Holes in 5G Networks Could Spark Security Attacks »
There is a big difference between the promise of 5G low latency, higher bandwidth, and speed for businesses versus the sec...
Monday, March 9, 2020
Future-proofing Your IT Environment »
by Leon Adato Your first car may have had lousy seats, so you created ad hoc seat covers. The engine wasn’t strong...
Monday, March 9, 2020
Future-proof Your IT Environment: Stay Out of Technical Debt »
by Leon Adato Your first car may have had lousy seats, so you created ad hoc seat covers. The engine wasn’t s...
Monday, March 9, 2020
The Secret to a Thriving Data Center: More Diversity »
by Ivonne Valdes Five years ago, some of the largest tech companies released diversity reports for the first tim...
Monday, March 2, 2020
Best Practices in Database Security Planning »
By Andrew C. Herlands, CISSP As the volume of enterprise data grows, database security is becoming more challenging...
Monday, February 17, 2020
AI, ML and IoT Cause the 'Cloudifying' of Edge, Rise in True Multi-Cloud »
by Ankur Singla There’s a seismic shift that’s about to reshape enterprise IT. Due to key trends like AI, mach...
Monday, February 17, 2020
Empower Your Power - Greening the Energy Grid »
by Mark Kidd In 2020, the data center industry will continue to undergo countless innovations and discoveries, bu...
Monday, February 10, 2020
Don’t Let the Network Trip Up Your Web Performance »
By Mehdi Daoudi Many factors can lead to slow-loading or unavailable websites, mobile sites, or digital applicat...
Monday, February 3, 2020
Practice These Five Rules for Data Center Safety »
by Walter Leclerc Recently, Digital Realty was included on the list of America’s Safest Companies 2019 presented by...

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