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Data Center Diaries follows the challenges and opportunities CIOs face as they oversee management of their companies’ existing data centers while planning for and building their next-generation data centers. Topics covered include data center consolidation,green data centers, operating costs and ROI, best practices, optimization, disaster recovery, management tools, data center automation, data center services and outsourcing, virtualized data centers, cloud computing, data center security and policies, and data center and cloud computing standards.

Beth Bacheldor is a freelance writer and editor with more than 20 years' experience, with much of that time covering the high-tech and IT industries. She has worked for numerous publications covering nearly every type of business technology, including IT outsourcing, data center operations, RFID, information security, systems management, networking, business intelligence, and enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain management . She has written for such publications as CIO.com, Network Computing, EdTech Magazine, Government Computer News, RFID Journal and many others. She has also written research reports for companies such as Computer Economics and Enterprise Management Associates. She spent more than a decade as a news editor and writer for InformationWeek and CommunicationsWeek. She lives by the sea in southeastern North Carolina with her two children.

Iceland’s carbon-neutral data center opens for business

Posted Feb 17, 2012 - 04:24 pm

Lights are on in this Icelandic data center
Bangalore gets a data center with screaming capacity and tight security

Posted Feb 09, 2012 - 04:59 pm

This data city is a mega data center.
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Sioux Falls, S.D., is tops for data centers

Posted Jan 31, 2012 - 09:33 pm

Is the Midwest the data center industry’s new frontier?
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Facebook's data center tax bill shrinks

Posted Jan 30, 2012 - 11:23 am

Dear Facebook, you can keep your money.
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Intense solar storm electrifies the air

Posted Jan 26, 2012 - 04:53 pm

Sorry boss, a solar storm has wiped out our data center here on earth.
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Smart lights, bright data center

Posted Jan 25, 2012 - 11:31 am

Who left the lights on in your data center?
Facebook disputes data center taxes

Posted Jan 21, 2012 - 12:26 pm

Facebook fought the law and the…
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And the ISO/OSHAS data center awards go to Google

Posted Jan 20, 2012 - 04:01 pm

Found: data center certs for Google
The European Commission cites IBM for its data centers

Posted Jan 17, 2012 - 05:03 pm

IBM rises to the EC Code of Conduct
Data center expansion or consolidation

Posted Jan 13, 2012 - 05:47 pm

Consolidating..., er expanding..., er consolidating data centers!

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