Author Archives: Chris Sevey

18 Aug

Build, Upgrade or Colocate?

By Chris SeveyBlog

Whether you’re a small business owner or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, the chances are that you’ll eventually be presented with a decision concerning how you store your data. As your business grows, so does your IT; in other words, the growth of your company directly forces you to make a business decision.

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23 Apr

Utility Billing – Explained

By Chris SeveyBlog

In Part III of How Enseva Makes Colocation Better, I touched briefly on the topic of how kilowatt-hour usage calculations will often vary between colocation providers. As promised, I plan to elaborate and compare the different methodologies I’ve personally seen in various multitenant facilities. POINT-IN-TIME The most common method I see utilized requires a technician with

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21 Apr

How Enseva Makes Colocation Better! – Part III

By Chris SeveyBlog

In our last series of posts, I discussed how we leverage a unique electrical distribution system that allows Enseva datacenters to securely, reliably and rapidly deploy electrical infrastructure for our customers. The electrical system clearly provides benefits to a datacenter facilities ability to quickly deliver new service to customers, especially in times of disaster recovery.

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10 Apr

Enseva expands hardware profiles in cloud

By Chris SeveyBlog, Press Release

Within the Enseva private cloud ecosystem, hardware profiles represent different combinations of CPU, Memory and Disk that consumers can provision. Historically, Enseva supported popular combinations of resources that closely mimicked real hardware. For CPU we had 1 Core, 2 Core, 4 Core, 8 Core, etc.; for Memory we had 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, etc. Disk is

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30 Mar

vNext Technical Preview – Crash Prevention

By Chris SeveyBlog

The next version of Microsoft Windows Server and Hyper-V has planned support for additional resiliencies when storage failures are introduced to the environment. Should a virtual machine (VM) detect the underlying storage is no longer available, it will place it’s self in a paused state until access to the storage is restored as opposed to

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28 Mar

vNext Technical Preview – Live Memory Resize

By Chris SeveyBlog

As a provider that leverages Microsoft’s Hyper-v technology to deliver cost effective high performance cloud resources to our customers, I’m excited to see where Microsoft is taking vNext. Currently, virtual machines (VM) in the cloud act very similar to their physical counterparts. If you wish to upgrade processors or add memory to a server, you

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