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Cool Tool Friday: CatTools

August 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Backup, Dallas Data Center, Routers, Security, Switches

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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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