These days, more than ever, maintaining your IT infrastructure is a must. We’ve become such an “E” driven society, that failure in your technology infrastructure could mean doom for your business. In my last post about disaster recovery, I shared some pretty interesting facts about what I found from an article by Paul Chilsom, “Ten [...]
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Disaster Recovery and Documentation
September 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services
Tags: CRM·Disaster Recovery·IT Infrastructure·Managed Services·Network Management
Protect Your Company From Social Engineering Attacks
September 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security
Threats to the security of your organization can not only come from malware, hacks, and network attacks, but also in more subtle ways. One such method is called “social engineering”.
Be aware that hackers have another tool in their toolset that employs a particularly subtle, insidious way of compromising the security of your systems and network. [...]
Tags: IT Management·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·Security
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 [...]
Tags: Cloud Computing·colo by the u·Colocation·Dallas Data Center·Disaster Recovery·Managed Hosting·The Planet·Virtualization
Dallas Data Center……no flood here…..
June 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery
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 [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Dallas Data Center·Dallas Morning News·Datacenters·Disaster Recovery
Ports Ahoy!
May 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Business Continuity, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Switches
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 [...]
Tags: Business Continuity·Cisco·Cisco Switches·Dallas Data Center·Data Centers·DDC·HA Mesh·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·Networking Infrastructure·Ports Ahoy·Redundant Port Channels·Switches·Switching Topography
VMware Migration
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Consolidation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Routers, Security, Servers, Storage, Switches, VMware
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 [...]
Tags: 10Gb Interfaces·Business Continuity·Consolidation·Dallas Data Center·Data Centers·Database Performance·Dell EqualLogic PS610X iSCSI SAN·Dell PowerConnect 8024F 10Gb Switches·Dell PowerEdge R710·ESX 3.5 Enterprise·ESXi 4·High Disk Queue Lengths·I/O Capability·iSCSI SAN·IT Management·LAN·LUNs·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·NIC Ports·Palo Alto Networks PA-500 Firewalls·Poor VM Performance·Routers·Security·Servers·Single Gigabit Connections·Storage·Storage vMotion·Switches·vCenter·Virtual Machines·VM·vMotion·VMware·vSphere·Xeon Quad-Core Processors
Cloud Computing Shifts During 2010
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Managed Hosting, Virtualization
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 [...]
Tags: Analog Devices·Channel Web·Cloud Computing·Innovation Value Institute (IVI)·IT Budgets·North American Conference·Virtualization
Cloud Computing 101
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security, Servers, Storage
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 [...]
Tags: Budget·Cloud·Cloud Computing·Consolidation·Data Storage·Security·Servers·utility computing