Two years ago, the Office of Management and Budget launched the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), which aims to close 40 percent of the federal government's 3,133 data centers by the end of 2015. Central to accomplishing this goal is not only closing data centers, but also making...

Business IT infrastructure has evolved considerably in recent years due to the rise of cloud computing and mobility. This evolution has had a significant impact on how to continue delivering the same value while keeping costs under control. Writing for CFO magazine, Stanford professor Timothy C...

Cloud security has become a point of contention as IT departments struggle with ensuring corporate data is protected and vendors provide assurances that their architectures are safe. Although there is still some debate over whether the cloud is truly secure, a significant number of businesses have a...

Many businesses have adopted virtualization solutions to consolidate hardware resources, particularly as the technology has evolved to enable easy provisioning. However, businesses have recently run into some challenges that stem from a proliferation of virtual machines. The first, according to a re...

A totally integrated solution for data reduction, security and authentication in a single secure data container PKWARE offers complete portability for reducing, securing, moving and storing data across the extended enterprise…both internally and externally, from mainframes to desktops and into the c...