One of the areas IT departments are asked to cut back in is operational costs for their data centers. Down economy or not, IT managers have never had a blank check with which to meet an organization’s needs. As time…
Blogger’s note: Baseline’s slideshow below revolves around difficulties with budgets and competent data center staffing. Many IT operations groups are trying to manage two complex lines of business: information technology operations mission critical facilities infrastructure. Many IT operations leaders have…
Rackspace reports that its cloud computing service is “degraded,” with many customers reporting their sites are unreachable. The company attributed the problem to an unusual load spike in the storage system supporting its cloud platform. The outage came several hours…
There’s been a bit of a debate raging over whether or not Amazon EC2 has been oversubscribed and is suffering from performance problems because it. The discussion started when Alan Williamson wrote a blog post on Tuesday that said he…
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…
