Carty reassured investors that sales of servers and data-storage equipment were holding up.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Xyratex makes both data storage products and equipment for manufacturing disk drives.

FORBES: Xyratex Miss Underlines Weakness In Disk Drive Sector

As shown in a recent Samsung event, increasing utilization of enterprise equipment, including digital storage, keeps the equipment in data centers working even harder, resulting in even higher energy use.

FORBES: Pumping Iron and Keeping Cool

Continuing to reduce the costs of on-line storage will require the management of stored content to optimize availability depending upon frequency of use and use of commodity storage and other data center equipment.

FORBES: Nothing Comes for Free

Consider Intel in microprocessors, Cisco Systems in networking equipment and EMC Corp. in corporate computer data storage.

FORBES: A tale of two companies

Designing and implementing shared IT services involves moving existing and new services to the cloud (both government or commercial hosting) to increase service elasticity, reduce system equipment footprints, free IT organizations from the expensive work of data center storage, maintenance, backup and recovery burdens.

FORBES: From CIA to OMB, Federal Government Gets Serious About Cloud