When a network engineer joins a new team, the goal is to make them an efficient and productive team member. Regardless of their technical skill level and knowledge, no two data centers are run exactly alike, and every customer is different. The introduction process has two parts: familiarizing the tech with the day-to-day internal operations [...]
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My First Two Weeks at Dallas Data Center
May 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Managed Services
Tags: Dallas Data Center·data center·network engineer·technician
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 [...]
Tags: Cisco·data center·Infrastructure·Managed Services·Net Flow·Orion NPM·Solar Winds·Virtualized Network
Attitude and Diversity in SMBs
November 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Uncategorized
As a hiring manager or team leader, you’re often faced with challenging decisions in regards to who is the right person to hire for a job. There is no cut in stone rule to follow either. You’ve got to look at the whole picture and make the best objective decision that you can for your [...]
Do you have a backup?
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security, Servers, Uncategorized
How many articles, blogs and entire websites have been dedicated to backing up our data? The idea has been around for a long time, but we still dedicate a lot of resources to backups. Recently I had two experiences that really drove home not only the need for backups, but the right questions to ask [...]
Tags: Backups·Continuity·data center·Disaster Plan·Disaster Recovery·Failover
Managing your rack…
October 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Servers, Uncategorized
For those of you who work daily in server rooms and data centers, you’ve probably seen how messy your rack can become. Cables start growing additional branches and servers and network gear seem to get lost in the jungle. This is especially problematic if you haven’t memorized the exact rack location of every server you [...]
IT Asset Management
October 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Consolidation, Dedicated Servers, Green IT, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Uncategorized
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 [...]
Tags: Budget·Business Continuity·Colocation·Consolidation·data center·Dedicated Servers·Disaster Recovery·Green IT·Implementations·Managed Hosting·Management·Microsoft·Project·ROI·TCO·Virtualization
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
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 [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·catastrophic·Consolidation·data center·Disaster Recovery·Green IT·Hyper-V·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·Virtual·Virtualization·VM·VMware·Xen
Colocation Is The Perfect Hosting Solution
April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Colocation, Disaster Recovery, Green IT, Managed Services, Virtualization
Tags: Backup·Budget·Business Continuity·catastrophic·colo·colo by the u·Colocation·Dallas Data Center·data backup·data center·data center security·data management·data security·Dedicated Servers·disaster·Disaster Recovery·green data center·Green IT·green ITgreen technology·iscsi·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·Management·north texas data centers·ROI·Storage·utility computing·Virtualization