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

September 8th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Green Workplace Equals A Cost-Effective Workplace

September 6th, 2010 · No Comments

Running an environment-friendly business may seem like too much of a hassle, but in truth, you can save money.
There’s been a lot of buzz about environmental issues such as climate change, and with the effects reaching everyone around the world, we all need to do our part to help. The good news is that going [...]

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Tags: Consolidation · Dallas Data Center · Green IT

Fantasy Football — The Importance Of Technology

August 31st, 2010 · No Comments

Admittedly, I’m a total nerd.  I don’t pretend to dispute it.  My wife and my son might disagree, but he’s only 6 months old.  I say he still counts, but you might not agree.  That being said, I love being the nerdy guy and when it comes to having fun at the house, it can [...]

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Small Business Server 2003 to 2008 Migration: Part 4: The Migration

August 19th, 2010 · No Comments

One of our Systems Engineers has written a four part series that we will be posting over the next two weeks in order to inform you of all you need to know in regards to a Small Business Server 2003 to 2008 Migration.
Microsoft advises that this migration is meant to be a live, during business [...]

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Small Business Server 2003 to 2008 Migration: Part 1: Discovery

August 10th, 2010 · No Comments

One of our Systems Engineers has written a four part series that we will be posting over the next two weeks in order to inform you of all you need to know in regards to a Small Business Server 2003 to 2008 Migration.
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “Small Business Server [...]

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Tags: Dallas Data Center · Managed Hosting · Managed Services · Microsoft · Servers

“Like” us on Facebook = FREE White Paper Download!

August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

We are pleased to announce that we now have a Facebook page!  Help us spread the word by hitting the “Suggest to friends” link under our profile picture.  In return for “Liking” our page, we will give you access to a FREE White Paper.  Take advantage of this opportunity today by clicking here.  We appreciate [...]

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Dallas Data Center has grown by 4 feet

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Cloud Computing · Colocation · Dallas Data Center · Disaster Recovery · Managed Hosting · Managed Services · Virtualization

DDC Puts Cloud in Motion

June 24th, 2010 · No Comments

Dallas Data Center is proud to announce that Motion HR has put their trust in us by choosing to host their SaaS offering, CloudHCM, at DDC.  We are running their SaaS offering using some of Dell’s new R710 servers, firewalls from Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco switches.  Their environment is set up in a full [...]

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Dallas Data Center……no flood here…..

June 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Recently there have been several articles written about a datacenter flooding in Dallas.  I’d like to point out that this was a “datacenter located in Dallas”, not the business named Dallas Data Center as one might have been led to believe based on the subject lines of numerous articles written about the disaster.  Here’s a [...]

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Ports Ahoy!

May 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment

This past Saturday night Dallas Data Center implemented 5 new Cisco switches, which added a significant amount of new ports (216 to be exact) to our networking infrastructure.  The 5 latest switches were joined into a HA mesh with 1 and 2 gigabit redundant port channels to the core.  Along with this addition, we increased [...]

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VMware Migration

March 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Our Dallas Data Center team recently took over IT management for a customer who was experiencing poor VM performance in an environment which consisted of ESX 3.5 Enterprise with two hosts and an iSCSI SAN which was, for all practical purposes, homemade.  The performance issues appeared to reside primarily in the SAN which only had [...]

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Cloud Computing Shifts During 2010

February 8th, 2010 · No Comments

An interesting article from Channel Web discussed the prediction of an increased volume of companies shifting towards cloud computing in 2010.  In the article, numerous IT executives embraced private and public clouds in Boston this past Wednesday during the North American Conference held by the Innovation Value Institute (IVI), an organization designed to create IT [...]

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Cloud Computing 101

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments

With more and more people and organizations accessing the Internet, and as the potential uses of the web grow, the way business is done is naturally evolving as well.
One example of this is the emergence of cloud computing services. In essence, this is the outsourcing of an organization’s IT services to a different company. Everything [...]

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