• 5 Considerations Around Leasing vs Buying a Data Center

  How do you upgrade your data center to ensure performance, security and compliance and still maintain cost and efficiency? How do you know to lease or buy?

• Data Centers Require New Sensor Design Considerations

  The current data center model is evolving to adopt new ways to help control the overall infrastructure, including power and cooling. It's time to understand the importance of having direct visibility into the environmental variables within the data center facility.

• Internap Opens Beta for Hybrid Cloud Platform Built on OpenStack

  Internap rolled out its public cloud service, AgileCLOUD, and it's on a native OpenStack API. The AgileCLOUD product exposes virtualized and bare-metal compute instances.

• When the Software-Defined Data Center Meets the Reality-Defined Facility

  Can a data center truly be software-defined? Richard Unger, of ABB Decathlon writes that he's been in a lot of data centers and not one of them has given any hint that it might be "software-defined." He gives an overview of how the new buzzword is impacting the data center.

• Government Clouds: What is FedRAMP?

  What is FedRAMP? It's a secure government cloud that meets specific requirements. Let's get an overview and dive into the specifications that organizations have met to become a part of a group of data centers meeting FedRAMP criteria. Actually, the guidelines can help everyone because the…

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