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	<title>Dallas Data Center &#187; Consolidation</title>
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		<title>Green Workplace Equals A Cost-Effective Workplace</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2010/09/06/green-workplace-equals-a-cost-effective-workplace/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2010/09/06/green-workplace-equals-a-cost-effective-workplace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running an environment-friendly business may seem like too much of a hassle, but in truth, you can save money.
There’s been a lot of buzz about environmental issues such as climate change, and with the effects reaching everyone around the world, we all need to do our part to help. The good news is that going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Simplify IT and Unlock Resources</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2010/05/03/how-to-simplify-it-and-unlock-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2010/05/03/how-to-simplify-it-and-unlock-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 15:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CEO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>VMware Migration</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2010/03/10/vmware-migration/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2010/03/10/vmware-migration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CEO</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Computing 101</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2010/01/26/cloud-computing-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CEO</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backup]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/?p=192</guid>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT Asset Management</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/10/11/it-asset-management/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/10/11/it-asset-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dedicated Servers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Implementations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ROI]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/?p=174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know….?
• IT Assets comprise the 2nd largest operational expense, next to employees in a typical company?
• IT Capital Expenditures represent a significant and in many cases majority share of annual capital expenditures for many companies?
IT Asset Management has been around for a long time in large Fortune 500 businesses and is now gaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Virtualization and What Can It Do for You?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/09/28/what-is-virtualization-and-what-can-it-do-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/09/28/what-is-virtualization-and-what-can-it-do-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[catastrophic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consolidation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hyper-V]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/?p=171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living in an HA World</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/04/01/living-in-an-ha-world/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/04/01/living-in-an-ha-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Continuity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dedicated Servers Now on Sale</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/03/31/dedicated-servers-now-on-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/03/31/dedicated-servers-now-on-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colocation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtualization Strategy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/02/16/virtualization-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/02/16/virtualization-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consolidation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Server Consolidation = Green, Money Saving, Easier to Manage</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/01/27/server-consolidation-green-money-saving-easier-to-manage/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/01/27/server-consolidation-green-money-saving-easier-to-manage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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In the last several weeks more than 75,000 layoffs have occurred. The jobs didn’t go away, just the people who did them. Server consolidation and job layoffs can be compared for the fact that the servers and people that are left, still have to carry the original load. The difference is that the servers were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green IT</title>
		<link>http://blogs.dallasdatacenter.com/2009/01/23/green-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consolidation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green IT doesn’t mean that little greens guys from light years away are providing IT, although sometimes we wonder about that. Green IT is creating an infrastructure that is more efficient in power consumption, consolidating your servers for maximum utilization, and choosing the right location for your gear. 
Most manufactures are creating “green” servers. These [...]]]></description>
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