World of Warcraft players are getting some big changes with the Shadowlands expansion, but a huge new pre-Shadowlands event is live on test servers. The event is unexpectedly causing massive mayhem by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A late arrival to the gaming field who grew up in a household devoid of consoles. Her life changed after she found an old Gameboy Color and a copy of Pokémon Crystal at a garage sale. While she ...

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 ...

New research finds that 25% of all physical servers — and 30% of all virtual servers — are comatose. These are systems that have no activity in the last six months. The problem with comatose, or ...

"In many countries ISPs cut off computers that are infected," Kaspersky told ZDNet.com.au. "In Russia I know that they do it. It's better to isolate them." Australia's plan to introduce such a scheme ...

One of the burdens of the digital age is the energy consumption by computer servers. There are nearly three million data centers across the U.S. where about 12 million machines provide the services we ...

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 ...