From the May 23, 2008 issue:
It begins:
Buying PCs is a central task for IT managers, but it’s hardly an easy one. For one (obvious) thing, you cannot just buy new computers the way people order lattes. It not only takes a lot of thought and planning, but it rarely gets accomplished overnight.
“Even if you’re [...]
From the May 16, 2008 issue:
It begins:
So much buzz has surrounded virtualization that the reality of managing it within the enterprise has gotten lost. And most, if not all, enterprise networks using virtualization use it within a mixed environment of the physical and virtual.
Complete article: Managing ‘Hybrid’ Virtualization Environments
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From the May 2, 2008 issue:
Here’s the first tip:
Know What You’re Cooling
Bob Blough, director of product marketing at Liebert Precision Cooling (www.liebert.com), says too often data center managers rely on a building’s general air-conditioning system to cool their data rooms and then are caught off guard when a hot spot in the middle of the [...]
From the April 25, 2008 issue:
It begins:
A few months ago, a group of researchers at Princeton University published a highly publicized study showing that DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) could be flash-frozen, enabling intruders a way to download encryption keys to hard drives and subsequently exploit information from them.
“Security experts have known about this attack [...]