Must-Ask Questions Before Signing with a Colocation Provider

It’s always best to ask questions before you sign a contract, not just for legal reasons, but also for practical reasons. When signing with a colocation provider, by asking the right questions, you can make the best choices for your IT needs. Some of the key questions to ask before entering into a colocation contract […]

Factors to Consider When Choosing a Data Center Provider

Companies are transitioning to data centers because they can save capital costs, expand the company’s network, and be positioned to grow into the future. Migrating to a data center can be a timely and expensive proposition. Some of the key decisions businesses should consider in choosing the right data center are:       Scalability. The provider should […]

Instructive Lesson From The Amazon S3 Outage

On Tuesday, February 28th, 2017, an Amazon employee made a typo during a routine billing system repair and, rather than taking only a few servers offline, instead took down a significant (but still unspecified) number of the nearly 150,000 unique websites and apps hosted or supported by the Amazon cloud computing S3 service. Affected sites […]

What to Do After a Data Breach

Data breaches occur in every type of industry – healthcare, retail, financial services, communications, and any business you can think of. Proper planning to avoid data breaches is always the first priority. The best way to respond to a breach is to make sure it doesn’t occur in the first place. Still, breaches do and […]

How Companies are Utilizing Carrier Neutral Data Centers

The last five years have seen an unprecedented upswing in the number of enterprises moving their IT management and housing to data centers. When choosing a data or colocation center, companies have two choices. Carrier specific data centers are operated by a single carrier and provide services for the entire facility. On the other hand, […]

Ensuring High Availability In Data Centers and Networks

Data centers have become synonymous with the concept of high availability and redundancy. Based on virtualization and utilizing cloud computing technologies, these data centers are known for offering their clients a level of availability they would be unable to achieve on their own. This virtualization allows the data center to treat the various servers like […]

Data Center Safeguards Redundancy and Reliability

When it comes to data centers, redundancy and reliability are similar but not quite equal. When it comes to understanding why redundancy and reliability is important in data centers, consider this statistic. According to the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington D.C, over 90 percent of businesses that experienced over 10 days of loss […]

Data Protection and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Unfortunately in life, terrible events such as natural disasters or other incidents happen almost every day. When these situations happen, one of the biggest problems for businesses that rely on vast amounts of data is disaster recovery. In today’s world, more businesses than ever need immediate and uninterrupted access to their data around the clock, […]

Preventing Disruptions Caused by Downtime or Data Center Outages

If you conduct transactions through a website or use hosted applications in the cloud, one of your main concerns is probably the reliability of your hosting provider. Even though most data centers provide very reliable services, data center outages still happen and continue to be a big problem for businesses that need to maintain an […]

How Data Center Reliability and Redundancy Directly Helps Your Business

You need to consider many different factors when you are choosing a data center. Something that is important but not always obvious is a data center with a redundant and reliable infrastructure. These data centers have systems in place to maintain high uptime percentages and distribute resources across multiple nodes. You need to know how […]