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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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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These days there’s a lot of buzz about “going green” – helping preserve the environment, conserving energy, and looking for sustainable ways to grow the economy. The IT industry is doing its part as well, with “green computing,” which is basically computing by more efficient and sustainable means. You can get on board with some [...]

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Did you know….?
• IT Assets comprise the 2nd largest operational expense, next to employees in a typical company?
• IT Capital Expenditures represent a significant and in many cases majority share of annual capital expenditures for many companies?
IT Asset Management has been around for a long time in large Fortune 500 businesses and is now gaining [...]

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Virtualization is generating a lot of buzz in IT circles these days because it promises to dramatically change the way many companies manage and operate their IT infrastructure. Virtualization is a broad term that covers the creation of virtual computing resources—such as storage, the network, or even an entire machine. For example, using virtualization you [...]

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Microsoft recently announced the availability of the Release Candidate for Windows XP Mode. According to Microsoft, this release was specifically designed to ease the migration path for small to medium-sized businesses by providing additional compatibility for their older applications that may not be compatible with Windows Vista or the upcoming Windows 7.

Windows XP mode runs [...]

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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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Several things in today’s market trigger an organization to think about virtualization: The lack of space in a data center and the cost of acquiring more space and equipment, after analyzing your servers and finding that 80 percent of the servers are underutilized and only carrying a load of 5-10 percent or maybe your time [...]

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In the last several weeks more than 75,000 layoffs have occurred. The jobs didn’t go away, just the people who did them. Server consolidation and job layoffs can be compared for the fact that the servers and people that are left, still have to carry the original load. The difference is that the servers were [...]

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Green IT doesn’t mean that little greens guys from light years away are providing IT, although sometimes we wonder about that. Green IT is creating an infrastructure that is more efficient in power consumption, consolidating your servers for maximum utilization, and choosing the right location for your gear.
Most manufactures are creating “green” servers. These [...]

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