August 27th, 2010 -Many critical services in the state of Virginia were crippled Thursday by computer failures in a state data center in Chesterfield, state officials said. More than 220 servers were offline, leaving at least 24 state agencies without…
Just like most folks, I’m often asked what it is that I do. And just like most folks, I describe what I do based on the person who is asking. If I am talking to a person who isn’t in…
Colocation for the Changing Cloud With this in mind, there are several key factors for having an ideal environment within which cloud computing services can grow and prosper: 1. Limitless Scalability Cloud computing demands higher levels of faster scalability than…
With the major standards bodies working out identity management and security and portability in the cloud, the industry has turned its attention to another matter: cloud computing law and order — in particular, the lack of jurisprudence as to who…
Should you be using outsource data center for a do-it-yourself disaster recovery center? Ten years ago, organizations that wanted to protect their enterprise data center from disaster had few choices. Back then, the mainframe was usually the centerpiece of the…
