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Three Business Plan Essentials: Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity

November 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Storage, Virtualization

Erratic by nature, disasters (natural or man-made) can happen anywhere at any time, and often with little or no warning at all. Planning ahead is imperative to ensure that your business can get back to normal operation as quickly as possible, with minimal loss and damage.
Small to medium-sized businesses usually think that disaster plans are [...]

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Get Efficient Results Using Managed IT Services

October 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Servers, Storage, Uncategorized, Virtualization

Utilizing IT Managed Services allows entrepreneurs to concentrate on their company’s core competencies, resulting in an increase in productivity which translates to increased revenue.
The term Managed Services is defined as “the practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibility as a strategic method for improved effective and efficient operations”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_services) While large corporations regularly choose this [...]

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Managing your rack…

October 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Servers, Uncategorized

For those of you who work daily in server rooms and data centers, you’ve probably seen how messy your rack can become.  Cables start growing additional branches and servers and network gear seem to get lost in the jungle.  This is especially problematic if you haven’t memorized the exact rack location of every server you [...]

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Calculating Your IT’s Real Cost

September 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services

Hidden IT costs can be stifling your company and you just don’t know it. It’s important to assess what those costs are and find a way to help your business perform better.
In this day and age, few businesses (if any) can survive without an IT arm. Every business, big or small, needs someone, or preferably [...]

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Dallas Data Center Partners With The Planet to Deliver “Colo By The U”

September 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Consolidation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Green IT, Linux, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Microsoft, Routers, Security, Servers, Storage, Switches, Uncategorized, VMware, Virtualization

HOUSTON, September 7, 2010 – The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced that Dallas Data Center (http://www.DallasDataCenter.com), a provider of Colo By The U, is the company’s newest referral partner, and joins its growing portfolio of referral agents within the Partner Plus program. Through the partnership, The Planet provides colocation services from its wholly [...]

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Dallas Data Center has grown by 4 feet

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Cloud Computing, Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Virtualization

What four legged 9 week old requires onsite management and 24×7 monitoring? Dallas Data Center’s newest team member! Meet Melville, a 16.5 lbs male, black lab who is a guide dog puppy in training from Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, California.  I’m sure you are all wondering why our new team member [...]

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Microsoft’s Opinion on the Cloud

June 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Cloud, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Managed Hosting

A recent article by Channel Web discusses how Windows Azure took center stage during Microsoft’s TechEd conference last week in New Orleans.  Microsoft feels that “the cloud is now mature enough to handle business applications, and it’s urging developers to start using new tools that take advantage of the efficiencies the cloud has to offer.”  [...]

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Colocation Is The Perfect Hosting Solution

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Colocation, Disaster Recovery, Green IT, Managed Services, Virtualization

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Attention all ex-customers of Core IP Networks

April 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Colocation, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage, Virtualization

If you were an innocent victim of the FBI’s raid this past Thursday at a Dallas ISP and need services, we can help.  We have been helping a local company who had their 2 1/2 cabinets seized, which included all of their servers (network, web, domain, Exchange, SQL) and their backup, get back online ASAP.   [...]

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Living in an HA World

April 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Consolidation, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Green IT, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Virtualization

Today’s business can’t afford to be down. If you have a web presence, your business is on 24/7. If you don’t treat your infrastructure as if you are open around the clock, you could be losing opportunity. Many people think that in order to get HA (High Availability) in their hardware that they have to [...]

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Dedicated Servers Now on Sale

March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Colocation, Consolidation, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Virtualization

Trying to grow your business but don’t have the technology to move forward? Dallas Data Center’s dedicated servers provide you with the hardware for only $249 per month with no term commitment and only a $100 set up fee.
 
Dallas Data Center’s dedicated servers are configured with the following specifications:
 
·         Dual Xeon 3.2Ghz Processors
·         4 [...]

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Managing Your IT Implementations

March 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage, Virtualization

Technology isn’t a one size fits all situation. Seems the more we try to fit our environment into a box, the more expensive the box becomes. There are ways to avoid this, IT consultants and Project managers. Both of these skill sets are necessary to have a successful IT implementation.
IT consultants can offer valuable insight [...]

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Rent-a-Server

March 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Colocation, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services

 
Renting space in a cloud or renting a physical server, either way allows for you to easily develop your application or get a presence on the web.  There is a difference between the options.  A cloud server is a virtual server.  A virtual server can have issues with performance.  These servers are great for low [...]

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Open House and Networking Event

March 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Colocation, Uncategorized

Dallas Data Center is hosting an open house and networking event on Thursday, March 5, from 5pm to 7pm.  All of our friends, customers, partners, and associates are invited to bring a friend and come unwind with a cold beverage and some hot conversation.  We will be giving tours of the data center to all [...]

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Managed Services – Maximizing Your Dollar

January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Colocation, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Virtualization

Information Technology (IT) is a necessary part in every business today. Whether your business is small and only uses email for communication, you host your website somewhere, or you have a full blown server farm and a team of IT staff, your business uses IT. When times are tough we look at all the areas [...]

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