Data Center Power and Cooling Requirements Calculator

Including both current and future facility requirements helps to align costs and capacity with enterprise needs. Calculate power, cooling, and standby power requirements...

Quality IT Communication with Stakeholders is Key to Success

It is essential for all CIOs to maintain quality communication with core business stakeholders in order to build strong relationships and establish trust. Consistent...

The Goal of IT/Business Alignment: Why so Elusive?

Has the ideal of IT/business alignment become the holy grail of IT leaders? The promise of IT/business alignment is to focus investment and activities, increase the value...

Optimize Decision Rights

The responsibility for IT decisions is often misplaced with those most impacted being uninvolved in decisions that they should be making.

Data Center Co-location SLA & Service Definition Template

A co-location Service Level Agreement (SLA) provides a definition of performance for the negotiated service. SLAs ensure accountability on the part of the service...

Merger & Acquisition Project Planning and Monitoring Tool

92% of IT professionals who achieve their merger and acquisition (M&A) goals create an M&A plan with specific timelines outlined for application, infrastructure, data,...

Data Center Co-location Site Visit and Evaluation Checklist

Vendor co-location site visits can validate decisions or uncover vendor inadequacies and biases. Conduct site visits to shortlisted data center co-location vendors to add...

Data Center Facility Requirements Estimations At-a-Glance

When building or refreshing the data center, IT must have a high level understanding of requirements and potential budget. Facility requirements for power, cooling,...

Is Your Web Site User Hostile?

(By Info-Tech Analyst Howard Kiewe - Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com) I recently guest lectured on the topic of usability testing to...

Change Control – Freezes & Risk Evaluation Policy

The purpose of this policy is to ensure that IT staff recognize that changes to computer systems tend to destabilize those systems.
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