From the August 29, 2008 issue:
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During summer, data centers can be the hottest places around. And even though you might keep your server room at arctic temperatures, you still run the risk of overheating pieces of your equipment. Data center hot spots can result from a misplaced server blowing hot in a corner, and [...]
Wow! Something not technology related!
This piece is titled “Online Help.”
In 1997, after a five-year hiatus, I returned to the law firm of ____, ____, ____, ____ & ____, this time in its downtown L.A. office. I was doing the same basic proofreading job that I had done in New York, but because the office was [...]
From the August 22, 2008 issue:
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Your cabling infrastructure probably isn’t the first thing that pops into your head when you’re thinking about your network. You don’t need a whole lot of technology know-how to connect different parts of your system together, and cabling as a topic just doesn’t have the marquee value of green [...]
From the August 15, 2008 issue:
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When Denver-based Frontier Airlines started out in 1994, the company flew two aircraft and had fewer than 200 employees. Nearly 15 years later, Frontier (www.frontierairlines.com) runs 60 aircraft and employs about 6,000 people. Now the second-largest carrier in the Denver area, Frontier needed its IT to manage its needs. [...]
From the August 8, 2008 issue:
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When you put together your fiscal 2008 IT budget, you may not have been anticipating gas prices jumping to nearly $5 a gallon and a spike in electricity costs (in large part due to transporting coal and other resources). Even if you did account for these increases, you probably [...]