Data Center

iOS, Android Users: Will You Use Cross-Platform BBM? (Poll)

Vote in this quick poll to voice your opinion on the upcoming cross-platform BBM chat app for iOS and Android.

NASA Turns to Open Source Middleware for Human-to-Robot Communications

Data management is inherently tricky, but when it involves robots in spaceu2014communicating via a low-bandwidth intermittent linku2014it's trickier. NASA is leveraging Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems to help it solve that proble

Cloud EHR Lessons Learned in Haiti

Strip away preconceptions about why technology doesn't or shouldn't work and people are likely to embrace the change that tech brings. That's what electronic health record and practice management software vendor athenahealth learned wh

How Intel Plans to Destroy the Legacy Data Center

These days, and with the help of Cisco and EMC, Intel is dipping its toes into the networking and storage ends of the enterprise technology pool. Add this to Intel's server expertise and the data center of the future may be at hand.

5 States That Offer Big Data Center Appeal

5 States That Offer Big Data Center Appeal

Whether it's to ameliorate disaster recovery or accommodate growth, many businesses are in the market for a new data center. These five states in the contiguous United States offer a variety of benefits, from low taxes to renewable energy to hig

What CIOs Need to Know About Software Defined Networking

Software defined networking applies the abstraction concepts of hardware virtualization to networking infrastructure. This works well for cloud implementations, which need significant configuration and planning. But SDN and network virtualization may

5 Elements Your Cloud Infrastructure Needs to Enable Application Agility

Cloud computing offers affordability and agility, but that doesn't mean it automatically enables business agility. To achieve that, you may need to rethink the way you design, deploy and manage the application development lifecycle.

A Closer Look at AT&T Next and T-Mobile JUMP! Upgrade Options

AT&T and T-Mobile are shaking up the wireless industry with two new plans that will allow customers to upgrade to new devices much more frequently, breaking from the two-year device-upgrade cycle. CIO.com's Al Sacco compares T-Mobile's

EMC ‘Bringing the Sexy Back’ to Data

When it comes to backup and recovery, IT is struggling to meet business demand within most enterprises--and the problem stands to get only worse. EMC believes the answer is a more open and agile protection storage architecture.

Can BYOD Breathe New Life Into the Virtual Desktop?

Seattle Children's Hospital isn't your typical BYOD story. Its mobile device strategy isn't bound by onerous user policies and monitoring software. Rather, the hospital's CIO reports an interesting twist: BYOD is resuscitating ill