Like the unfortunate person who continually diets but only seems to gain more weight, power-hungry data centers — despite adopting virtualization and power management techniques — only seem to be consuming more energy than ever, to judge from some of…
Regardless of your beliefs on server purchase price versus long-term power costs, data center power costs are a significant portion of the costs of doing business in your IT organization. While not a common practice in most organizations, having IT…
1. Choose a Top Quality Internet Network – A worldwide Tier 1 International fully redundant OC192 backbone with additional 10 GigE network connections to hundreds of other Internet networks is the best service a business can acquire. Ask the colocation…
Your high-tech landlord – Is affordable colocation your company’s most important real estate? Your data center is probably more important to your business than it was 10 years ago. Organizations of all sizes have come to expect 99.995% uptime to…
The concept of a cloud as the paradigm for abstracting the complexity within traditional data center operations and computing began with network administrators. They used a cloud metaphor to document the details of large local and wide area networks. When…
