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How Safe is the Cloud?

August 12, 2008

Network World has a story about how an online storage site, Linkup, formerly known as MediaMax, shut down this week after 45% of the data was lost. Who's fault is it? Well, the article tries to figure that out.

As we have seen, outages are everywhere - Amazon, Google, etc.

Posted in Web 2.0, backup, data center, saas, security

AIS is San Diego Collocation

November 23, 2008

Back in September, American Internet Services announced a CEO change at the Grand Opening of their Tier 4 data center in San Diego. Alessandra Carrasco was promoting from EVP and COO will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer. I interviewed her in October.

ME: What verticals are you chasing?

Posted in data center

RapidLink Data Center Opens

December 22, 2008

Rapid Link, Inc. opens a 3000 square foot data center north of Atlanta at Spaghetti Junction in Doraville, GA.  Rapid Link's data center will have access via fiber and wireless.The first customers will be moving into the space in January, 2009.

If you are a telecom agent looking to sell collocation, Rapid Link is looking for you. please contact Kris Maher, Director of National Sales, at 800-363-3435

Posted in agents, data center

Hot off the Twitter Press

February 18, 2009

It's amazing the news feed you can get from Twitter.

Broadband Stimulus Plan: High-Speed Access coming to Rural America
Ask our CIO about our UC implementation at Aspect on a Frost & Sullivan webinar tomorrow:

Telefonica, Microsoft Offer Windows Live Services to Latin America

AboveNet is connecting 4 Telx facilities in NY/NJ

Recession is slowing the Death of Dial-Up.

RackSpace is using the Green label to market its hosting service. (IPO's will do that to you).

Apparently, BPL is still a viable option. Go figure.

This is all in about an hour. There's a lot going on. How are you keeping up with the Industry?
Posted in PBX, TMC, broadband, data center, telecommunications, twitter, unified communications

IBM's Open Cloud Manifesto

March 30, 2009

On Twitter this morning, Josh wrote, "Widely discussed leaked doc, Open Cloud Manifesto, originally authored by IBM - http://bit.ly/cloudmanifesto - could be historic".

"The buzz around cloud computing has reached a fever pitch. Some believe it is a disruptive trend representing the next stage in the evolution of the internet. Others believe it is hype, as it uses long established computing technologies.

Posted in Internet, data center, saas

CIO's Top Tech Investments

April 16, 2009

Robert Half interviewed 1400 CIO's for a research study (press release here), It's not a surprising list: Security, VOIP, Virtualization, SAAS, and data center efficiency. Considering power costs much more than space, getting energy and hardware efficient means cost savings. Oh, wait, that's virtualization too. And Software as a service and VOIP. 

In summary, the top tech investments of CIO of companies with 100 or more employees is IT Security and cost cutting initiatives.
Posted in data center, saas, security, technology, voip

Data Center Rumors

April 23, 2009

In case you didn't hear Oracle bought Sun. Open Source folks are worried and so are Sun customers.

Nuvox opened a new 5,000 square foot data center at 421 West Church Street in Jacksonville FL, which is THE telecom hotel in that city.

Rackspace hired Robert Scoble.

Data Vault in Miami was flooded last night according to a telecom source in South Florida.

Host.net/WV Fiber is opening a new data center in Nashville. It was announced yet but I ended up with a spec sheet in my email -- not from the company though.
This is the second data center that I have heard of being built in Nashville (I can't remember who the other is).

DataSite in Orlando signed a 15-rack first client in February.










Posted in data center

Cloud Storage by Mail

May 21, 2009

Because broadband is so slow in the states, Amazon has resorted to allowing companies to mail in their portable devices for data storage and upload. According to Cloudave, it could take "82 days (with 1.54 Mbps T1 connection) to migrate one terabyte of data with 80% network utilization."  So "Amazon has resorted to old fashioned approach from the previous eras. Users can mail Amazon their data in one of the supported portable storage devices and Amazon will transfer it to users' AWS account from within Amazon's high speed internal network."  Sad really.
Posted in apps, backup, bandwidth, cloud computing, data center, saas

Data Center of the Future

May 26, 2009

This is an interesting way to market a Data Center: Carpathia Hosting is using an e-book!

Data Center of the Future: the IntroductionChapter 1: Security, Privacy and Risk ManagementChapter 2:Monitoring, Management & Service FrameworksChapter 3: Datacenter Optimization Services - coming soon!
Posted in data center

How to Optimize a WAN

October 9, 2009

My buddy, Derek Thompson, just started at Fishnet Security. Besides peddling Bluecoat and SonicWall Managed Services, he is also selling WAN Optimization. While I have heard of this, I had no idea what it was or how it worked. So Derek invited me to sit down with Doug Kruger of Riverbed.
Posted in Internet, apps, bandwidth, data center, technology
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