The Benefits of a Connectivity-Centric Cloud

In June 2018, Comcast suffered a major outage that impacted their Xfinity service nationwide. As one commentator said: “For a minute there, it looked like the whole internet was down.” That’s a big deal, especially if you rely on cloud services to power IT at...

Data Center Modernization with VMware

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...

Increase Uptime in Your Data Center Network

As networkers, we’re constantly thinking about redundancy and uptime. We’re taught that multiple links and devices means resiliency, which can be true, but complexity in the network can be equally complex to troubleshoot when things go wrong. The classic Layer 1-2...

How to determine your power requirements

One of the hardest concepts when considering data center colocation is determining how much power equipment needs. There are many ways to find out what your power requirements are, but no matter what method you use, all computations involve three electrical concepts:...
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