by Wayne Geils | Colocation, Data Center
When you’re first exploring colocation costs, the numbers seem straightforward: cost per rack, cost per square foot, cost per kW, etc. And yet there’s no mention of what is — and is not — included in those prices. What will a cross-connect cost you? What’s the pricing...
by Chris Rechtsteiner | Cloud, Data Center
Data center modernization is a never-ending goal, even when the decision is to transition to cloud-first or cloud-native environments. Unfortunately, the cloud isn’t a finish line. It isn’t a finite destination. In reality, the cloud is a (seemingly never-ending) set...
by Chris Haun | Data Center, Network
When you’re selecting a transit provider for your data center environment, you’re selecting who brings customers to your doorstep, who controls a portion of your user experience, and of course, who controls a huge part of your uptime. There are many things...
by Chris Rechtsteiner | Data Center, Infrastructure
In December 2016, we began a research effort by categorizing the conversations we have with customers and prospects. We wanted to answer a few questions: Coming into 2017, what are people most interested in and focused on? Are there common themes or project scopes...
by Joel Berger | Data Center
Note: This is an excerpt from my blog post originally published on PerlTricks.com. While SSH is a staple of remote system administration, sometimes only a GUI will do. Perhaps the remote system doesn’t have a terminal environment to connect to; perhaps the target...
by Chris Rechtsteiner | Data Center
Data center migrations aren’t something most people do every day. They’re typically a once-in-a-career event—twice if you’re lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you look at it). No matter which camp you’re in, moving networks, servers, data and applications from one...
