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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Not even the rich and famous are immune from disasters so don’t think that it can’t happen to you.  Just take a look at country singing sensations Brad Paisley and Keith Urban who are two of countless musicians that will most likely lose millions of dollars on performance gear due to the historic floods in [...]

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CRN recently celebrated their 20th Channel Champion Award ceremony where the Vice President and General Manager of Dell Global Commercial Channels, Greg Davis, accepted the 2010 Network Storage Award during the XChange Solution Provider conference that was being held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.  This award is regarded as the “people’s [...]

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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 exciting new product to check out is the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS6510 series of EqualLogic iSCSI SAN storage with supporting 10GbE technology.  As stated by a recent article from Dell™, the products versions PS6510E and PS6510X integrate “intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless [...]

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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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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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If you were an innocent victim of the FBI’s raid this past Thursday at a Dallas ISP and need services, we can help.  We have been helping a local company who had their 2 1/2 cabinets seized, which included all of their servers (network, web, domain, Exchange, SQL) and their backup, get back online ASAP.   [...]

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Ever wonder why you see an advertisement on TV and they tell you it is only $29.99, but then when you get to the part about shipping and handling it costs another $20.00 to get it and if you want it faster than 8 weeks, it is another $10.00. Whether it is TV or a [...]

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Technology isn’t a one size fits all situation. Seems the more we try to fit our environment into a box, the more expensive the box becomes. There are ways to avoid this, IT consultants and Project managers. Both of these skill sets are necessary to have a successful IT implementation.
IT consultants can offer valuable insight [...]

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IDC recently did a study of IT administrators and found that over the last 3 years, data storage has grown to over a petabyte (1 million GB).  The technology has pushed us to create larger files and email them everywhere and store them in multiple places. The problem with storage is that much of the [...]

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IT professionals know that server disks fragment. As server disks fragment, the performance and file access can slow down. Most administrators just set a schedule to defrag the server when usage is low and keep moving. Virtualization has brought another problem into the mix. We can defrag our virtual machines, but what about the host [...]

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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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An old saying goes “A failure to plan is a plan to fail”. Most everyone knows this plan, but not everyone lives by it. When companies go into business, it is to make money. We plan for our personnel, we plan our budgets, and we make plans for where we want to take the business [...]

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We all have to agree that losing our data would devastate our business. It is estimated that over 44% of people and businesses have lost data that was crucial to them. Another report states that over 50% of businesses that do loose data, are out of business within 2 years. If this is the case, [...]

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The up and coming buzz word in the IT industry and new kid on the block is iSCSI. Before you can understand if iSCSI is for you, you need to know what it is. Essentially, iSCSI is “SCSI over IP”.SCSI has been around for many years, and it stands for Small Computer System Interface. This [...]

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