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Dallas Data Center Partners With The Planet to Deliver “Colo By The U”

September 8th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Dallas Data Center has grown by 4 feet

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Cloud Computing · Colocation · Dallas Data Center · Disaster Recovery · Managed Hosting · Managed Services · Virtualization

Why Investing in Technology Can Actually Save You Money

May 24th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Business Continuity · Managed Services · Virtualization

Are You Regularly Defragmenting Your Disks?

May 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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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How to Simplify IT and Unlock Resources

May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Business Continuity · Consolidation · Servers · Virtualization

Go Green!

February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

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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10 GbE Throughput with iSCSI SAN? Wow!

February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Cloud Computing Shifts During 2010

February 8th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Say GOODBYE to 2009 and Hello to 2010!!

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments

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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What is Virtualization and What Can It Do for You?

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Windows 7 Will Have Better Support for Windows XP-only Applications

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Colocation Is The Perfect Hosting Solution

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments

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Attention all ex-customers of Core IP Networks

April 4th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Backup · Business Continuity · Colocation · Dedicated Servers · Disaster Recovery · Managed Hosting · Managed Services · Storage · Virtualization

Living in an HA World

April 1st, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Business Continuity · Cloud Computing · Colocation · Consolidation · Dedicated Servers · Disaster Recovery · Green IT · Managed Hosting · Managed Services · Virtualization

Dedicated Servers Now on Sale

March 31st, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Colocation · Consolidation · Dedicated Servers · Disaster Recovery · Managed Hosting · Managed Services · Virtualization

When to Virtualize

March 25th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Cloud Computing · Consolidation · Virtualization

Managing Your IT Implementations

March 19th, 2009 · No Comments

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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You’re Free!

March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

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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Defrag or Not to Defrag

February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

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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Virtualization Strategy

February 16th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Consolidation · Disaster Recovery · Green IT · Storage · Virtualization