In a world increasingly dependent on data, demand for data storage seems to know no bounds. But the growing importance of enterprise storage to everyday life comes at an ecological cost— the impact of power-intensive data centers on the conservation …
There’s frequent talk about the critical role a modern chief financial officer plays in advancing a company’s digital transformation (DX). Regardless of sector or company size, a CFO cannot avoid technological advance and the changes to computing hardware (and software) …
As data becomes increasingly central to business models everywhere, overall spend in data center hardware continues to grow. This is hardly surprising. It’s a good time to be in the data center, with a recent survey by AFCOM pointing to …
Commentators frequently speculate on the future state of the data center. But for IT managers and data center operators making purchasing decisions, the direction of travel for IT hardware is more than an exercise in conjecture.
Understanding where the data …
If the current decade has seen the mainstream adoption of open source for software, the 2020’s may emerge as the golden era of open hardware.
Momentum behind open hardware, the application of open source methodology to IT equipment design, is …
Once you’ve taken the decision to migrate storage, what does this mean for your legacy storage assets? What steps can you take to recover greatest value from retiring drives and related hardware?
It’s not sufficient to plan for what happens …
IT asset disposition, or ITAD, may not be the easiest industry terminology to say five times fast. But anyone involved in the practice of ITAD knows the importance of responsible disposition for IT hardware.
They also know how much value …
Horizon Technology has added Responsible Recycling R2 Certification (R2:2013) to its list of industry certifications.
The R2 Standard, overseen by the non-profit Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI), requires businesses that refurbish and recycle used electronics to comply with a …
What to do with all the hard drives kicking about when it comes time for a refresh cycle or to decommission parts of a data center?
When companies decide to upgrade and replace, or dispose of, outdated equipment, one of …
