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...
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...
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...
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...
Everything in the server world is getting smarter and faster, and this includes one of the basic parts of the server: the Power Supply Unit (PSU). Power supplies were once a simple set of transformers and filters. Today, they are an intelligent switching and...
It’s a huge pain to go to the data center when hardware fails — especially when you live far away. Servers don’t break at convenient times, either. Often it’s at 2 AM, rush hour, or the moment you sit down to watch a new episode of Rick & Morty....
