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McCall, October 18, 2011
Upper Saucon Township: Bank of America looking to build data centers at Center Valley Club

IMS Research, October 10, 2011
Monitoring in the Data Center: AFCOM Data Center World – Fall 2011

Forbes, October 10, 2011
Defending Data Centers From Criminals And Hurricanes: What's Your Recovery Plan?

Data centers, under strain, expand at furious pace
Computerworld – 05/19/11

Data Center World Spring 2011 Breaks Attendance Records
AFCOM – 4/26/11

Cloud is at the heart of data centre discussions
Rackspace – 04/01/11
Discussions concerning data centres and networking at businesses have been including cloud computing in the dialogue more and more in recent years, resulting in what research from Afcom suggests has been a rapid uptake of the technology.

Data centres are vulnerable to disasters: AFCOM
Computer Business Review – 04/01/11
15% of respondents said that their data centre has no plan for data backup and recovery Data centres are vulnerable to disasters with more than 15% of respondents saying that their data centre has no plan for data backup and recovery while 50% have no plan to replace damaged equipment after a disaster.

Scenes from Data Center World 2011
Data Center Knowledge – 04/01/11
The spring version of AFCOM's Data Center World 2011 was held this week at the Mirage in Las Vegas. The event provides four days of training, panels, presentations and networking.

Data centres aren't prepared for disasters: Study
Cybermedia India Online Limited News – 03/31/11
Cloud use rises, mainframe usage declines as data centres grow and green, according to AFCOM survey.

Cloud Surge Bringing Sweeping Changes To Data Centers
Information Management – 03/31/11
More than 70 percent of data center managers say they are implementing or considering cloud options.

It's World Backup Day!
Data Center Knowledge – 03/31/11
Recently the user community at Reddit launched an initiative to make March 31st World Backup Day. As often happens at Reddit, it didn't take long before the movement had a web site and Twitter feed.

Data Centers Not Ready to Cope With Cyber Attacks
Information Management – 03/31/11
AFCOM report: More than 15 percent of the 358 data centers have no plan in place for data backup and recovery in the case of a power outage or natural disaster

AFCOM: Workloads Scale, But Staffing Doesn't
Data Center Knowledge – 03/31/11
What were the key findings from AFCOM's new State of the Data Center survey? Some news coverage highlighted growth in cloud computing, while other stories examined gaps in disaster recovery preparations.

Cloud-computing adoption tops datacentre agenda
ZDNet UK – 03/31/11
Cloud-computing adoption among datacentre managers has snowballed in the last year, according to a survey by datacentre association Afcom, with more than 70 percent of respondents already implementing the technology or seriously considering it.

Dramatic cloud growth highlights AFCOM data center survey
E Channel Line – 03/30/11
Data center association AFCOM has announced the release of "The State of the Data Center," a status report on data centers highlighting results from a survey of 358 data center managers from around the world.

Many Data Centers Unprepared for Disasters: Industry Group
eWeek – 03/30/11
AFCOM's "State of the Data Center" survey polled 358 data center managers from around the world.

Cloud computing dominates data center agenda, says survey
ZDNet Blogs – 03/29/11
Cloud computing adoption among data center managers has snowballed in the last year with more than 70 percent of respondents who have implemented the technology or seriously considering it, according to a survey by AFCOM, a data center association.

IT workloads up as tech added sans staff
Computer World – 03/30/11
As data centers continue to add technology, they arent necessarily adding people to manage their servers, new surveys have found.

Data centres add technology without staff support, says survey
Computer World UK – 03/30/11
Staff shortages continue to raise admin workloads

IT workloads up as data center technology added without more staff
InfoWorld – 03/30/11
Data center studies show staffing trends, rising adoption of cloud computing, lack of spending on disaster recovery

PUE: Time to Start Grading on the Curve?
Data Center Knowledge – 03/30/11
With a growing number of data centers reporting ultra-low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratings of between 1.02 and 1.3, it's clear that many data center have learned how to optimize for the best PUE possible.