Dallas Data Center

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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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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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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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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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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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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