High-density, power-hungry systems run hot—are fluid cooling systems the solution? Water, water everywhere, and not a drop—in the datacenter! That was true for a while, after mainframes were phased out

Any number of experts will give you their opinions on the hot trends in datacenters these days. For example, analyst Andreas M. Antonopoulis, senior VP of Nemertes Research, lists consolidation,

As computer technology continues to evolve, it will soon be possible for an average PC to do things that until recently required the world’s largest supercomputers. Consider, for example, the

The “killer app” for the Internet has always been human-to-human communication. Although the Internet’s original designers thought they were creating an infrastructure that would be shared by expensive computers, email

Instant messaging (IM) is going global. It has already overtaken decades of development in telephony, email and the Web, and it has all the hallmarks of an IT market about

You know that IP-telephony is the wave of the future. You know you’ll be buying it for your enterprise…someday. So how do you know if now is the right time?

Within the last three years, nearly every vendor and consulting company has dropped competing IT  service management methodologies to jump onto the IT Infrastructure Library or ITIL bandwagon; as  a

I remember a meeting at a bank in New York in the early 1990s. The topic was strategic technology planning, and the CIO and the EVP of operations were co-chairing.

Not for a number of universities, where such systems are in use today in production environments. Is open, SIP-based telephony achievable for the enterprise? Lately, I am being told by