Are data centers the new resource-draining ‘factories’ of the 21st century? It’s no secret that large data center operators such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Amazon recently made strategic location decisions to position their lat­est data center construction projects within range of hydroelectric power, which is far cheaper and more abundant than traditional electricity from [...]

Magma Design Automation, supplier of computer- aided design, relies on CRM func­tionality delivered as Soft­ware-as-a-Service (SaaS) from Salesforce. com to track orders and maintain customer satisfaction levels. Hamilton Beach- Proctor Silex, a major consumer appliance manufac­turer, facilitates its market research through SaaS- deliv­ered applications provided by statistical tools vendor SPSS. Robert Reid, group vice pres­ident [...]

We’ve been hearing about it for some time – storage requirements are exploding. The nature of the things we need to store have changed – we now have to find ways to save video and audio files, as well as images. Layer on top of that the various compliance mandates that dictate that organizations hold [...]