Welcome to this week’s installment of our new feature, Cool Tool Friday! Each Friday we will feature a tool – hardware or software – that we’re using and think you might enjoy. Whether it increases productivity, helps with organization, provides a quick work-around for difficult networking situations, or is simply interesting and fun, we’ll share it [...]
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Cool Tool Friday: CatTools
August 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Backup, Dallas Data Center, Routers, Security, Switches
Tags: Backup·CatTools·Cool Tool Friday·cool tools·Managed Services·Networks·Routers·SolarWinds·Switches
How to Configure a MPLS Network
February 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Cloud, Cloud Computing, Managed Services, Routers, Servers
Part 1 – Planning and Configuration
Recently I was able to configure all of the edge routers for an entire MPLS network for one of our customers. They have offices in Hong Kong, China, and the United States. The MPLS provider that they are using is providing the MPLS cloud, and we are providing the edge [...]
Tags: Cloud Computing·Dallas Data Center·Managed Services·MPLS·Server
InfoWorld Announces 2011 Technology of the Year Awards
February 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Routers, Security, Servers, Storage
Who says awards lists are only for the end of the year? InfoWorld has released their picks for the best software, development tools and hardware for the upcoming year in their InfoWorld 2011 Technology of the Year Awards. From best storage system (Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS) to best PC (Apple iPad – and they make a [...]
Tags: Apple·awards·Dell·development·Google·hardware·infoworld·Software·Technology
Network Tools for the Data Center
December 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Routers, Security, Switches
I just saw a subscriber email come in from Solar Winds advising that Orion NPM now has enhanced data center infrastructure monitoring including better visibility across your virtualized network from a single console (sweet!). Talk about an awesome way to have an eagle eye view of your network. For those of you who can afford [...]
Tags: Cisco·data center·Infrastructure·Managed Services·Net Flow·Orion NPM·Solar Winds·Virtualized Network
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
Fantasy Football — The Importance Of Technology
August 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Dallas Data Center, Firewalls, Routers, Security, Servers, Switches, Uncategorized
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 [...]
Tags: Cisco·Cisco Switches·Firewalls·LAN·LLQ CBWFQ·Routers·Security·Skype·Switches·WAN
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