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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What is Virtualization and What Can It Do for You?
September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery, Green IT, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage, Virtualization
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·catastrophic·Consolidation·data center·Disaster Recovery·Green IT·Hyper-V·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·Virtual·Virtualization·VM·VMware·Xen
Attention all ex-customers of Core IP Networks
April 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Colocation, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage, Virtualization
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. [...]
Tags: Backup·catastrophic·colo·colo by the u·Colocation·Dedicated Servers·disaster·Disaster Recovery·failure·Host·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·Storage
Backup–Plain and Simple!
March 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage
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 [...]
Managing Your IT Implementations
March 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage, Virtualization
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 [...]
Tags: Implementations·IT·Management·Project
Can you afford not to dedupe?
March 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Disaster Recovery, Storage
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 [...]
Tags: dedupe·deduplication·ROI·Storage·TCO
Defrag or Not to Defrag
February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Storage, Virtualization
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 [...]
Virtualization Strategy
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Green IT, Storage, Virtualization
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 [...]
Tags: Consolidation·EMC·Equal Logic·IBM·Left Hand·Virtualization
A Plan to Fail
February 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Storage
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 [...]
Tags: catastrophic·disaster·failure
Backing up data, more cost effective than ever
February 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Storage
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, [...]
Tags: Backup·deduplication·Storage
Is iSCSI for me?
February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Storage
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 [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·iscsi·Storage