Do You Have a Plan for When Your ISP Goes Down?
It can happen to anyone—everything in your facility is working as intended, and suddenly, without warning, all your company’s activities come grinding to a halt. It turns out that even though you did...
View ArticleA Journey Into the Hybrid Cloud
“In the cloud” is more now than just a phrase that describes a feeling. Although the cloud began as a vision, over the past decade it has become an integral part of everyday business decisions, even...
View ArticleIndustry Outlook: State of the Data Center Market
Industry Outlook is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry Outlook...
View ArticleWhat If Your Colo Fails: Preventing Disaster
Although a data center network is designed not to fail, it does happen. And if it does, it puts data owners in a precarious situation—especially when it’s a colocation facility (colo) that goes down....
View ArticleThe Changing Data Center Landscape: Four Things to Consider
The traditional data center of yesteryear has been replaced with lean, mean virtual machines designed to keep pace with the insatiable demand for compute and storage resources. The environment has...
View ArticleHow Data Center Colocation Benefits Businesses
In-house data centers can be expensive, especially since the shift from individual servers to networked systems. It’s like owning your own home, where you’re responsible for all of the costs,...
View ArticleColocation vs. Cloud: It’s Not Either-Or for Mission-Critical Data
To say that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has lost a few “friends” would be a glaring understatement. His reputation and his company’s have taken a huge hit in the wake of revelations that the...
View ArticleAtlanta: A Hub for Data Centers
In recent years, Atlanta has become an important U.S. hub for third-party managed data centers. It offers the infrastructure, facilities and services necessary to build and run data centers...
View Article2018 Trend: BI Platforms for Mission-Critical Data Center Operations
Organizations are increasingly trusting colocation data centers to store, protect, monitor and repair critical technology infrastructure and data, according to BCC Research. The analyst firm predicts...
View ArticleFederal Agencies Should Focus on Mission, Not on Managing Data Centers
With a stroke of the pen, President Trump took one small step in dismantling the federal government’s IT bureaucracy. And yet, if done right, his May 15 executive order (EO) could turn into the giant...
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