Wholesale, Colocation, Cloud or Hybrid—It’s Your Choice Bandwidth Limitations and the Cloud International Data Center Real Estate Overview Hydrogen-Powered Data Centers?

Wholesale, Colocation, Cloud or Hybrid—It’s Your Choice

When a company’s existing IT infrastructure approaches its maximum capacity—and many companies face this problem regularly—the question arises as to what approach to take to ...

Bandwidth Limitations and the Cloud

As more companies and individuals rely on services provided through the cloud (or, if you will, the Internet), the following question arises: what is the ...

International Data Center Real Estate Overview

Although the U.S. still remains in some sense the hub of the data center market, other regions around the world are exhibiting their own dynamics, ...

Hydrogen-Powered Data Centers?

Although hydrogen generally doesn’t come up in a discussion of alternative energy sources, it is a topic relevant to cleaner energy use. So, what’s the ...

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CooperVision Finds Strategic Advantage in Global Deployment of Opengear Gateways for Out-of-Band Access

CooperVision Finds Strategic Advantage in Global Deployment of Opengear Gateways for Out-of-Band Access

May 23rd, 2012

Challenges One of the world’s largest manufacturers of contact lenses faces the challenge of managing a highly distributed and complex global network infrastructure while ensuring compliance with strict security and compliance standards and reducing downtime. With IT systems becoming more strategic to CooperVision’s operations, a critical step was needed to enhance and modernize its out-of-band management network solution in order to strengthen business continuity and reduce the number of security threats. Given the ever increasing number of new[...]

Wholesale, Colocation, Cloud or Hybrid—It’s Your Choice

Wholesale, Colocation, Cloud or Hybrid—It’s Your Choice

May 22nd, 2012

When a company’s existing IT infrastructure approaches its maximum capacity—and many companies face this problem regularly—the question arises as to what approach to take to remedy the situation. One option, of course, is construction of a new data center. But many companies (particularly those whose business isn’t directly related to IT) may not want the hassle of dealing with peripheral concerns like operating and maintaining cooling and power distribution infrastructure or even servers and other IT equi[...]

Remote Access: Don’t Let Weaknesses Plague Your Business

Remote Access: Don’t Let Weaknesses Plague Your Business

May 21st, 2012

The theft of source code for Symantec's pcAnywhere has put remote access programs in the spotlight. But the security implications posed by remote management products are not new. In fact, data released over the last year shows that remote access services account for 88 percent of hacking attacks.[1] So what precautions can organizations take to make sure they aren’t an easy target? For almost 30 years, remote access software has allowed IT professionals to connect to d[...]

Bandwidth Limitations and the Cloud

Bandwidth Limitations and the Cloud

May 18th, 2012

As more companies and individuals rely on services provided through the cloud (or, if you will, the Internet), the following question arises: what is the ultimate limit? Demand for IT services—whether cloud based or otherwise—is constantly growing, and data centers are consuming a greater percentage of global energy production every year. Even ignoring the issue of energy, however, the move toward heavier reliance on the cloud runs up against another limited resource: bandwidth. Dealing With Limited Ban[...]

International Data Center Real Estate Overview

International Data Center Real Estate Overview

May 16th, 2012

Although the U.S. still remains in some sense the hub of the data center market, other regions around the world are exhibiting their own dynamics, particularly in Asia and Europe. Demand for data center services has yet to plateau, so companies are continually needing to expand their IT capabilities, whether through new data center construction or expansion or through outsourcing to the cloud (meaning another company somewhere must have or add data center capacity). Thus,[...]


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Some Data Centers Are Getting Smaller?

Some Data Centers Are Getting Smaller?

May 16th, 2012

At the top of the data center world are the mega data centers—facilities whose massive scale dwarfs the computer closets (by comparison) of most companies. But the trend toward larger data centers among some large companies contrasts with another trend elsewhere in the industry: many data centers are getting smaller. T..more...


Press Releases

OnRamp’s Data Center Disaster Recovery Solutions Help Coastal Companies Prepare for Hurricane Season

May 23rd, 2012

Austin-based Data Center operations company, OnRamp Access, is helping businesses in hurricane-prone regions protect their IT infrastructure with disaster recovery solutions designed to keep online operations up and running in..more...

KEMP Provides Seamless Migration to IPv6 Load Balancing Without Loss of Performance

May 23rd, 2012

KEMP Technologies is providing transparent migration with no performance loss for businesses moving from IPv4 to IPv6 load balancing when they add the next generation internet addressing protocol to their networks. ..more...

Smart Money is on AccelOps to Deliver Integrated SIEM, Network and Data Center Monitoring for Next-Generation Secure IT Environments

May 23rd, 2012

AccelOps, Inc., the leader in integrated Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and performance and availability monitoring for on-premise and cloud-based data centers, today announced that it has added 150..more...