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 [...]
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Cool Tool Friday: CatTools
August 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Backup, Dallas Data Center, Routers, Security, Switches
Tags: Backup·CatTools·Cool Tool Friday·cool tools·Managed Services·Networks·Routers·SolarWinds·Switches
Adtran vs. Cisco… What’s the Difference?
February 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Managed Services
When it comes to finding the ideal technology to fit your needs, it’s good to have options. In our data centers we use Cisco routers and switches for core switching. However, there are other options that may fit well in certain client offices. One of the available alternatives that provides a solid option for edge [...]
Tags: Adtran·Cisco·Managed Services·Network Solutions·Routers·Switches
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 [...]
Tags: Cisco·Cisco Switches·Firewalls·LAN·LLQ CBWFQ·Routers·Security·Skype·Switches·WAN
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 [...]
Tags: BPO·Cisco·CloudHCM·Dallas Data Center·Dell·Firewalls·HCM·HRIT Consulting Services·Human Capital Management·Motion HR·Oracle·Oracle Human Resources·Palo Alto Networks·SaaS·SaaS Offering·Server·Switches
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 [...]
Tags: Business Continuity·Cisco·Cisco Switches·Dallas Data Center·Data Centers·DDC·HA Mesh·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·Networking Infrastructure·Ports Ahoy·Redundant Port Channels·Switches·Switching Topography
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 [...]
Tags: 10Gb Interfaces·Business Continuity·Consolidation·Dallas Data Center·Data Centers·Database Performance·Dell EqualLogic PS610X iSCSI SAN·Dell PowerConnect 8024F 10Gb Switches·Dell PowerEdge R710·ESX 3.5 Enterprise·ESXi 4·High Disk Queue Lengths·I/O Capability·iSCSI SAN·IT Management·LAN·LUNs·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·NIC Ports·Palo Alto Networks PA-500 Firewalls·Poor VM Performance·Routers·Security·Servers·Single Gigabit Connections·Storage·Storage vMotion·Switches·vCenter·Virtual Machines·VM·vMotion·VMware·vSphere·Xeon Quad-Core Processors