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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

With the advent of the cloud, disaster recovery has added a new layer of complexity. Many say that moving to the cloud is the be-all; end-all solution of solving your backup needs because it is all handled remotely — a “hands-off” approach to IT. Unfortunately, this is simply not the case. Many of the largest

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.

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

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