IT Gets Its Own Address “Companies typically spend 80% of IT budgets on maintenance,” according to a recent article in InformationWeek. That leaves precious little time for IT departments to take on those new innovative ideas the management has been demanding. With the continued reliance on technology for both company efficiency and the storage of nearly all company data, the IT Department runs into a vicious cycle of securing past information while maintaining network speeds with the continuous accumulation of new data. The result is typically an array of servers (none of which are used to full capacity) which all contain a variety of incompatible software programs, and a network in dire need of an upgrade. Your server room has become much like that tangled ball of holidays lights you put in the attic last week. What should your New Year’s resolution be? Colocation.    More... A Virtual Data Center Tour It wasn’t so long ago that filing cabinets lined office walls and outdated files were boxed up and sent off to storage. Companies were once mystified at how all the files in those cabinets could be condensed into one compact package known as the computer. Well, those days are back. The container may be different, but the data remains the same. Files have been replaced by bytes, and file cabinets replaced by server rooms. So, what happens when the server room is filled to capacity? It’s time to move your files to a data center.    More... Next month in Next month we take a closer look at virtual servers, and we go inside the development of The Brookfield Group's own data center.

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