by Ian Aitchison   The job hiring outlook post COVID-19 is a mixed one. According to Manpower, the third quarter...

by Christian Pruett Data centers are 130 years old. Something about that does not look right. It makes se...

Editor's Note:  This is the second part of a two-part series in which AFCOM members share their best practices for es...

By Dr. Julie M. Albright The Industrial Era is in its twilight, giving way  to  the rising Digital Era, wh...

IT and Facilities: Keeping the Peace Editor's Note:  In this is the first of a two-part series, AFCOM members sha...

by Ashish Nanjiani It’s no longer a surprise that the number of new data centers being built by enterprises around t...

by Brian Gillooly I first encountered Frank O’Brien months ago when I was browsing the news headlines about the 50th...

by Jim Weynand   As we navigate the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, data centers are proving their wo...

by Rich Soucie   Talking to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Knoxvi...

by Denis Litvinov Nowadays, a Product Manager (PM) is one of the most popular professions in the tech industry. Tale...

by Cynthia Harvey As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the economy, many IT workers have experience...

by Carrie Goetz Breaches make headlines often. Some are cyber, some are physical, some are enacted by ill-intent...

by Kyle Myers Water has long been thought of as free or cheap, especially when compared to electricity. After all, 7...

by Jonathan Seelig  Public cloud infrastructure has transformed the IT landscape. For well over a decade...

by Theresa Miller With so many businesses dependent on the cloud giants, what happens if there is an outage?...

by Mark Adams Global compute capability is changing: small, medium and large enterprises are shifting workloads off th...

Omdia, the research arm of Informa Tech, recently released its report, “ COVID-19 Market Impact on Cloud and Data Center:...

by Fredrik Jansson After years of quietly working in the shadows, keeping things going and supporting the grad...

by Michael Orell As 1.2 million corporate data centers are expected to close by 2021, according to Computerworld, C...

by Paul Bemis The use of CFD modeling during the design phase of data center is not a new idea. In fact, this approa...

Each year, we honor AFCOM's most   deserving   chapt e rs and members with awards for their various achievements...

by  Susan Cook The U.S. Federal Government has launched an array of financial-rescue programs, from the Fami...

by Karen Riccio Unfortunately, when we look back at history and 2020, it will forever be known as the year of the CO...

Your Guide to HIPAA Contingency Plan Compliance With DraaS by Veronica Miller Due to healthcare reform and a bro...

by Scott Shadley Because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, streaming is surging across the globe.  Even prior...

by Marc Cram For most people, predicting the future by looking at the past is at best a difficult exercise in makin...

There is a big difference between the promise of 5G low latency, higher bandwidth, and speed for businesses versus the sec...

by Leon Adato Your first car may have had lousy seats, so you created ad hoc seat covers. The engine wasn’t strong...

by Leon Adato Your first car may have had lousy seats, so you created ad hoc seat covers. The engine wasn’t s...

by Ivonne Valdes Five years ago, some of the largest tech companies released diversity reports for the first tim...

By Andrew C. Herlands, CISSP As the volume of enterprise data grows, database security is becoming more challenging...

by Ankur Singla There’s a seismic shift that’s about to reshape enterprise IT. Due to key trends like AI, mach...

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

By Mehdi Daoudi Many factors can lead to slow-loading or unavailable websites, mobile sites, or digital applicat...

by Walter Leclerc Recently, Digital Realty was included on the list of America’s Safest Companies 2019 presented by...