The time is nigh to address what should keep CIOs up-at-night: the zombies lurking in their data center. As companies look to expand and upgrade their data centers, it’s easy to forget about the ...

There are zombies lurking in data centers around the world. They’re servers—millions of them, by one estimate—sucking up lots of power while doing nothing. It is a lurking environmental problem that ...

Datacenters are plagued by underutilized hardware that do little more than jack up utility bills and take up valuable space Deep within the bowels of your datacenter, unspeakable horrors — the living ...

If you have a zombie watch feature built into your cloud management tools, you can more precisely gauge CPU usage (and therefore costs). It’s an intelligent, dynamic way for businesses to catch the ...

In an age when virtualization, the cloud and mobile computing increasingly define the enterprise data environment, it’s important to take a step back every once in a while and focus on the ...

Tom Henderson is principal researcher for ExtremeLabs and researches and tests enterprise-level hardware and virtual/cloud environments. They live among you. Sometimes they’re nearly undetectable for ...

You thought it was buried. You forgot. Someone didn’t document it. A ping sweep didn’t find it. It lay there, dead. No one found it. But there was a pulse:It’s still running, and it’s alive. And it’s ...

In the spirit of our parent publication Light Reading, a Friday Security Haiku. DoS attacks go large, Zombie servers spewing bits. Havoc out for hire. Curtis Franklin Jr. is Principal Analyst at Omdia ...