• IT morphs as tech and users change

  As The consumerisation of IT and self-service trends gain momentum, IT shops are being restructured and IT professionals are learning to play new roles.

• IT isn't going away, says Fox CIO

  The next summer blockbuster out of 20th Century Fox might be called "The Incredible Shrinking Data Center."

• Juniper keeps its simplification promise

  As promised, Juniper has added automation and orchestration features to its campus and data center switches, including OpenStack support.

• OpenVMS, R.I.P.: 1977-2020?

  Hewlett-Packard looks to end support for OpenVMS, a system long valued for its reliability and break-through features, in 2020.

• Google chases Amazon, both drop Cloud prices

  It's become a common scene in the Cloud industry nowadays: Every few weeks or months a Cloud vendor announces a price reduction on its services, and then within a couple of days at least one other competitor announces a price reduction as well. Today, it took just hours.

• How to script: A Bash crash course

  An easy step-by-step guide to the Bash command-line shell and shell scripting

• How to build a private cloud

  A private Cloud looks and acts like a public Cloud, giving your corporation all the speed, agility and cost savings promised by Cloud technology, only it's single-tenant, and that tenant is you, right? Well, that's the goal, but it's not quite the reality yet for most enterprises.

• 5 tips for avoiding private cloud failures

  According to Piston Cloud Computing's CTO, the rate at which his customer's pilot projects turn into production private clouds is pretty typical of most OpenStack-based providers – and it's pretty low.

• Stack wars: OpenStack v. CloudStack v. Eucalyptus

  OpenStack -- co-founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 -- certainly has the buzz, what with partnerships with AT&T, HP and IBM, to name a few, all of which have promised to use OpenStack as the base for their private cloud offerings.

• Tornadoes and data centers are OK in Oklahoma

  If the question about tornadoes comes up at his Oklahoma City data center, as it sometimes does, Todd Currie, vice president of operations and general manager at Perimeter Technology, has answers. He even has cutout sample of his roof to show how it is built.

• The Internet of Things: Coming to a network near you

  When people talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), the most common examples are smart cars, IP-addressable washing machines and Internet-connected nanny cams.

Whitepapers about Data Center

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  2012 Data Breach Investigations Report

  A study conducted by Verizon RISK Team with cooperation from the Australian Federal Police, Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit, Irish Reporting & Information Security Service, Police Central e-Crime Unit and United States Secret Service. This year our DBIR includes more incidents, derived from more contributors, and represents a broader and more diverse geographical scope. The number of compromised records across these incidents skyrocketed back up to 174 million after reaching an all-time low (or high, depending on your point of view) in last year’s report of four million. In fact, 2011 boasts the second-highest data loss total since we started keeping track in 2004. Read this report.

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  Application Usage and Risk Report on Enterprise Networks in Australia and New Zealand

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  Eliminating Compromise in the Data Center

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  It's time to Simplify Data Center Architecture