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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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What four legged 9 week old requires onsite management and 24×7 monitoring? Dallas Data Center’s newest team member! Meet Melville, a 16.5 lbs male, black lab who is a guide dog puppy in training from Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, California.  I’m sure you are all wondering why our new team member [...]

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Money is tight and hard to come by, and a lot of companies are looking to cut costs and sacrifice the non-essentials. For many, taking off a chunk out of the IT budget is one of the ways to try to save money.
However, when it comes to IT services, chances are a bit more investment [...]

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When most people want to purchase a new computer or upgrade their current one, they focus on finding a CPU with the quickest speed, the most computing cores, or the most RAM they can afford. However, they may be overlooking the most likely reason for computing slowdowns: fragmentation in the disks.
Disk drives claim the [...]

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Businesses need to use the economic crisis as a time to reassess their IT needs and options. Server virtualization, consolidation, and energy costs are a good place to start.
Read more at Inc. Technology…

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These days there’s a lot of buzz about “going green” – helping preserve the environment, conserving energy, and looking for sustainable ways to grow the economy. The IT industry is doing its part as well, with “green computing,” which is basically computing by more efficient and sustainable means. You can get on board with some [...]

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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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An interesting article from Channel Web discussed the prediction of an increased volume of companies shifting towards cloud computing in 2010.  In the article, numerous IT executives embraced private and public clouds in Boston this past Wednesday during the North American Conference held by the Innovation Value Institute (IVI), an organization designed to create IT [...]

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Dallas Data Center would like to welcome you to a brand new year!  Countless individuals start out the year with overdue New Year’s resolutions that can be tough to keep.  At DDC, the commitment remains the same all year long.  With a resolution to always provide excellence and value to our clients, we are able [...]

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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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Microsoft recently announced the availability of the Release Candidate for Windows XP Mode. According to Microsoft, this release was specifically designed to ease the migration path for small to medium-sized businesses by providing additional compatibility for their older applications that may not be compatible with Windows Vista or the upcoming Windows 7.

Windows XP mode runs [...]

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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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Today’s business can’t afford to be down. If you have a web presence, your business is on 24/7. If you don’t treat your infrastructure as if you are open around the clock, you could be losing opportunity. Many people think that in order to get HA (High Availability) in their hardware that they have to [...]

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Trying to grow your business but don’t have the technology to move forward? Dallas Data Center’s dedicated servers provide you with the hardware for only $249 per month with no term commitment and only a $100 set up fee.
 
Dallas Data Center’s dedicated servers are configured with the following specifications:
 
·         Dual Xeon 3.2Ghz Processors
·         4 [...]

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In the IT arena, fads come and fads go, but when the concept makes bottom-line sense, then it stays and becomes part of our infrastructure. This is what has happened with virtualization. Now the question is not if you should virtualize, but when. There are some things to consider such as justifying to the financial [...]

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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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Last Monday, Citrix announced that they will now give away their entire virtualization platform. What does this mean? It means that virtualization is more than a fad or a gimmick. Previously, the software was $3000 per server. Citrix understands that the more people that use the platform, more of a chance they have to sell [...]

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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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