Location, Location, Location

Forbes.com (Sep 23 2009) Construction

1. Despite very expensive location studies by consultants, early in my career I learned that data centers were inevitably located near the CIO's home. This trend, however, will place companies at a severe disadvantage as costs continue to rise. Tremendous advances in remote hardware reporting technology now mean that management (and the CIO) no longer needs to physically reside in or near the data center. In fact, well-run data centers are "lights out," meaning that literally no one is in the computer room much of the time. (Read Full Article)

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