It’s a power efficiency problem. It’s an environmental problem. It’s a capital resource problem. Zombie servers are becoming a major headache for data centers around the world. These comatose devices ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many small and midsized businesses (SMBs) have a danger lurking in their server room can that undermine their best efforts to keep their users and data safe. Microsoft stopped supporting Windows ...

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 ...

Deep within the bowels of your datacenter, unspeakable horrors -- the living dead! -- may dwell. Like zombies, these mindless minions feed greedily on, well, not brains, but electricity, a costly ...