Staffing So, it’s 11:00 on a Friday evening. You’ve been out on a date, enjoying your night, when your phone rings. It’s work. You know from experience that this can’t be good; but…you are the one on call, so you have to answer it. And…just as you suspected, it’s not good. You have a server
Read MoreInternet Connectivity Let’s face it…you’re going to have to start using the “Cloud” sometime. With all the computer world adding more and more critical services in a cloud computing environment, Internet connectivity needs to be reliable. In today’s world, Internet connectivity is everything to a business. It has gone from being something nice to have
Read MoreCooling So, last week we talked about power and how using a collocation data center can be cost effective, easier and more beneficial from an electrical perspective. This week we are going to tackle the issue of keeping your equipment cool. In order to keep things consistent, we will return to our three examples of
Read MoreI want you to envision your IT room right now. Is it safe and secure? Is it in a nice cooled room? Is it guaranteed to never suffer from a power outage or surge? Or, is it like many small to medium businesses that have converted a closet or a spare office to a data
Read MoreWhy Should I Choose a Data Center? So…when I searched for “Why should I choose a data center,” I got thousands of results for “How to choose a data center.” I found checklists on the things to look for when choosing a data center. I found articles explaining how to choose the right power and
Read MoreThis IT to IT column is a new idea, and with this new idea, I plan on speaking from one IT guy to another without filling the topic with corporate buzz words, and just bringing up the topics that we can care about as IT. So with that, I want to start talking about the
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