Servers, storage and networking gear are often certified to run in temperatures exceeding 37 degrees, and with that in mind many IT pros are becoming less stringent in setting temperature limits
Educating your CXO is "incredibly important," says Mark Jeffery, assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Here's his basic syllabus for educating the CIO, which he employs in his MBA class, "Enterprise Technology for General Managers."
When NBC Universal begins its television coverage of the summer Olympic Games from Athens next month, the broadcasting and cable TV company will use three satellite network linkups and three land-based connections to ensure that its video, audio and data transmissions are redundant.