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CoS/QoS – Do They Really Matter?

December 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Switches

We so frequently hear terms like class of service (CoS) and quality of service (QoS) thrown around in the context of VoIP and other applications. The thing we need to ask ourselves is: what is the point?
At the end of the day, CoS and QoS are important capabilities to have in the network, but understanding [...]

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Tags: CoS·Networks·QoS·VoIP

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 [...]

Dell to Acquire Force10 Networks

July 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Data Centers, Switches

Dell announced today that it intends to acquire Force10 Networks. This purchase furthers Dell’s goal of expanding their network solutions to serve the needs of data center and enterprise customers.
Force10 Networks, with operations in over 60 countries, specializes in high-performance, high-density networking equipment for data centers and other environments that require high-performance data management systems.
This acquisition will [...]

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Tags: Dell·Force10·networking

This server is a virtualization power house!

January 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Cloud Computing, Consolidation, Dallas Data Center, Managed Hosting, Servers, Switches, Virtualization

What does all that add up to? Support for massive virtualization. With minimal fanfare, Dell over the summer unveiled the PowerEdge R815, a 48-core 2U server touting four Opteron processors (with 12 cores each) and another four Gigabit Ethernet adapters to service them.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

DDC Puts Cloud in Motion

June 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Servers, Switches

Dallas Data Center is proud to announce that Motion HR has put their trust in us by choosing to host their SaaS offering, CloudHCM, at DDC. We are running their SaaS offering using some of Dell’s new R710 servers, firewalls from Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco switches. Their environment is set up in a full [...]

Ports Ahoy!

May 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Business Continuity, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Switches

This past Saturday night Dallas Data Center implemented 5 new Cisco switches, which added a significant amount of new ports (216 to be exact) to our networking infrastructure. The 5 latest switches were joined into a HA mesh with 1 and 2 gigabit redundant port channels to the core. Along with this addition, we increased [...]

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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