Data Center Diaries

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.

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Iceland’s carbon-neutral data center opens for business

Posted Feb 17, 2012 - 05:24 pm

For the record, the new data center built on a bedrock of granite in the cold country of Iceland -- the one I wrote about here -- is officially opened.
Smart lights, bright data center

Posted Jan 25, 2012 - 12:31 pm

I have some lights in my kitchen and dining room that I’d love to change out. But frankly, there’s nothing really wrong with them except that I don’t like their look. And I keep telling myself, function over form… function over form.
The University of Toledo fires up microturbines in the data center

Posted Nov 16, 2011 - 03:11 pm

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to interview the CIO of Syracuse University (SU), Chris Sedore, to talk about the completion of the university’s new green data center.
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Are you cool with your data center cool?

Posted Dec 26, 2011 - 01:37 pm

With all the buzz about Facebook kumbaya-ing with Greenpeace (and announcing earlier this month it will collaborate with the environmental group on clean and renewable energy), and more and more companies heading north for chilly climes to help keep their data center operations more efficiently cooled and green, you’d think everyone has figured
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Data center energy consumption will increase. Are you (not) surprised?

Posted Sep 26, 2011 - 04:39 pm

Data centers and their piggish energy ways.
9/11: Are Lessons Learned Still Being Applied?

Posted Sep 09, 2011 - 07:36 pm

There’s no equating the horrific, world-changing terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, with any other disaster we’ve experienced in the United States in the 21st century. That day, nearly 3,000 lives were taken in a matter of hours.
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Is your data center ready for the consumerization of IT?

Posted Oct 25, 2011 - 02:25 pm

Everyone is talking about – and living with – the consumerization of IT in their enterprises. You know, the idea that consumer technologies, both hardware and applications, are heavily influencing and rapidly shifting enterprise IT. I mean, loads of folks are doing business on their personal smart phones and tablets.
Intense solar storm electrifies the air

Posted Jan 26, 2012 - 05:53 pm

Apparently, solar flares – giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space – are back, with a vengeance. There are numerous reports that an intense solar storm – which began when a solar flare exploded from the sun – could affect airline flights and satellite operations.
China’s data center expansion includes eye on efficiencies

Posted Dec 31, 2011 - 12:27 am

Chinese data centers and the environment
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Data center lock-down is top concern.

Posted Sep 15, 2011 - 10:14 am

Data center expenditures take up more than one-quarter of overall IT budgets, according to a new study released by IDG Enterprise.
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- costs, data center

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