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E-Zine: Enterprise CIO Decisions: Data Centers - Owning vs. Outsourcing

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Modern Infrastructure e-zine CIO edition: Managing the next-generation data center

Forward thinking CIOs are establishing flexible data centers for the enterprise of the future, letting cloud computing, mobile devices, and infrastructure lead the way. 

This special CIO edition of Modern Infrastructure e-zine demonstrates how today's data center technologies are fully intertwined with business strategies. Read now to uncover why CIOs should be considering cloud computing and data center transformation as a business issue first, and a technology issue second. 

  • Confronting the data center question
  • Infrastructure and the cloud: the new strategic frontier
  • Deliberating data center investments
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