Affordable colocation and 99.995% uptime are NOT mutually exclusive. Make sure you understand your outsource data center’s levels of redundancy and the uptime service level agreements in order to get the best combination of uptime and affordability. Your staff, your…
Data center uptime demands are increasing. Floor space is holding steady or slowly increasing. Power requirements per cabinet are on the rise. Data center power costs are moving up. If any of these trends are happening in your enterprise data…
IT outsourcing in 2009 ebbed and flowed as the recession-challenged global economy contracted IT budgets before loosening its grip a bit toward the end of the year. Along the way, many in-house IT jobs were eliminated, and many enterprise CIOs…
Google is in a really big hurry to make the Web experience faster. That became abundantly clear in 2009, when the company unveiled a steady stream of projects, products and enhancements focused on increasing Internet speed. The initiatives varied widely…
Uh, oh! Rackspace, a major cloud-computing provider, experienced a connectivity loss at its Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, data center for more than a half hour on the afternoon of Dec. 18. During that time, customers could not access business services at…
