The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a few more dollars to tech startups, and a need to create tools for the world of…
There’s chum in the financial waters and the sharks are circling. Could it be that the tech industry is on the verge of a feeding frenzy that would make the past year or so look tame by comparison? It seems…
Outsource data center pricing models vary. Companies who use outsource data center (colocation) facilities often have multiple line items on monthly invoices that include charges for racks, floor space, power utilization, port charges, cross-connect fees, circuit sizes, redundant power feeds,…
The use of a former water storage tank is only the latest “out of the box” idea about where to build and deploy data centers. We’ve written about a number of non-traditional data center locations over the years, including data…
Last Thursday, a segment of interstate highway I-70 was closed inside of the Indianapolis I-465 beltway from 7am to 7pm. The reason for this “scheduled outage” was twofold: Eli Lilly donated employee labor for the beautification of the stretch of…
