Data Center

iPhone 5 Price Madness: $207 to Build; $649 from Apple; $900 or More on eBay

The iPhone is selling faster than any gadget in history, and when demand is so high, the price customers are willing to pay jumps accordingly. Even so, the lengths consumers are willing to go to, and the prices they'll pay, to get an iPhone 5 ar

5 Enterprise Alternatives to Dropbox

The recent Dropbox data breach has many IT executives telling employees not to use it. These five products offer the administrative and security features that may restore their faith in cloud data storage.

How to Manage Data Center Complexity

Complexity in the data center drives increased costs, reduced agility and even downtime. For the past five years, virtualization has been the accepted cure, but it may simply be shifting complexity into other areas of the data center. To get the most

Splunk Adds Visibility Into Virtual Environments

IaaS provider CloudShare deployed Splunk to correlate machine-generated data and provide insight into every aspect of its business.

How HP Can Use Itanium Ruling to Beat Oracle

Customers are more demanding u2013 and less forgiving u2013 than ever before. Keeping them happy calls for the right mix of contact center capabilities.

How HP Can Use Itanium Ruling to Beat Oracle

If Hewlett-Packard plays its cards right, it could turn Oracle's court-ordered support for HP servers running Itanium chips into a better platform for Oracle software than it was when HP and Oracle were bosom buddies.

College group to slash printing costs by $800,000 over two years

History, IT Innovation and the Pace of Change

A visit to the English countryside gave CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden the chance to see Roman ruins, a medieval church and a replica of the first supercomputer. It wasn't until he returned home and saw a driverless car on a California freeway

Dell, EMC, Cisco Tackle BYOD With Desktop Virtualization

As the Bring Your Own Device trend gains traction, Dell and EMC/Cisco are taking different approaches to desktop virtualization. Generally, Dell aims for PC users in the midmarket, while the EMC/Cisco partnership may work better for enterprises that

NextDC’s Canberra data centre opens for business

Desktop Virtualization Cuts Costs and Improves Social Services

Gary Bateman, CIO of Iowa Workforce Development, was able to turn a budget desktop virtualization project into a hugely successful expansion of state services for the unemployed--and he lowered operating costs to boot.