Most of us are aware of several types of web hosting solutions that exist, but what most of us are not aware of is which one will serve our purpose best. Among all types of server hosting, dedicated server hosting turns out to be much powerful in comparison to its likes. A dedicated server is one where there is only one computer in a network which is reserved to serve the needs of the network. In simple words, it means that…

Software-defined data center services are said to be changing the IT landscape and building more automated capabilities in the future. These virtualized data centers have spurred as the technologies of tomorrow, which will completely transform the data center architecture.

Virtualization has revolutionized the server management as it makes one machine work as many. It results into optimized…

Today, data centers are helping organizations greatly in not just hosting their mission critical data but also in handling their multiple tasks on-demand, based on the varied model of the services as provided by them.

A typical datacenter mainly provides services under various categories…

Internet Data is multiplying and growing everyday which has given a push to the growth of data center Industry. Servers in these data centers produce immense amount of carbon emissions. On one hand, IT industry is rapidly growing adding more number of data centers. While on the other hand, everyone is concerned about global warming and environmental issues. Constant efforts are being made to minimize…

Dedicated Servers In India: A Smart Investment and Technology Management Move-

In an ever-dynamic changing eCommerce landscape, a long lasting user experience has become a ‘must-have’ in a business strategy. To power the same, your business must be backed up with adequate technology in terms of computing resources and scalable IT infrastructure on demand.

In addition to this, to power with…

What RAID set should you select for your dedicated server? Before coming to this question, it would be imperative to get a little clarity on what exactly is RAID.

RAID stands for "Redundant Array of Independent Disks".  RAID is a storage technology that links or combines multiple hard drives so that data can be stored on them as if they were one logical unit. In other words, RAID takes multiple physical disks and…

Colocation server hosting is a type of web hosting designed for small businesses which are keen to enjoy features of large IT departments minus the heavy costs. The colocation server hosting provider will lease out the space within a data center for customers to set up their own equipments. They will also provide clients with bandwidth, power, IP addresses and cooling systems to deploy the server properly.



How does colocation work?



Colocation server…

VPS hosting India provider are much in demand these days as VPS hosting is becoming more and more popular for businesses keen to expand. In VPS hosting, a business owns a virtual private server and it can enjoy superuser-level access to its operating system. This lets the client install any program on the server or reboot it if required. The VPS hosting India providers will offer a physical server which is partitioned to produce multiple virtual servers, each of which can function…

Is your website application facing regular server downtime or low site-speed or unhappy customers or high churn rates?

Then, it’s time you realize that you need to change something! And, all of these are symptoms highlight one root cause and that is, the choice of your web server.

Most of the upcoming start-ups which are bootstrapped in terms of funding make a choice of opting for shared servers at the inception of their operations. But do you know the problem they face when…

Non Volatile Memory (NVM), NVMe, Flash Memory Summit and SSD updates

I attended the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara CA last week and not surprisingly there were many announcements about Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) along with related enabling technologies. Some of these announcements were component based intended for original equipment manufactures (OEMs) ranging from startup to…

Some August 2015 Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Cloud Updates

Cloud Services Providers continue to extend their feature, function and capabilities and the following are two examples. Being a customer of both Amazon Web Services (AWS) as well as Microsoft Azure (among others), I receive monthly news updates about…

Supermicro CSE-M14TQC Use your media bay to add 12 Gbps SAS SSD drives to your server

Do you have a computer server, workstation or mini-tower PC that needs to have more 2.5" form factor hard disk drive (HDD), solid state device (SSD) or hybrid flash drives added yet no expansion space?

Do you also want or need the HDD or…

Breaking the VMware ESXi 5.5 ACPI boot loop on Lenovo TD350

Do you have a Lenovo TD350 or for that many other servers that when trying to load or run VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 u2 (or other versions) and run into the boot loop at the…

Intel and Micron unveil new 3D XPoint Non Volatile Memory (NVM) for servers and storage

This is the first of a three-part series on the recent Intel and Micron 3D XPoint server storage memory announcement. Read…

EMCworld 2015 How Do You Want Your Storage Wrapped?

Back in early May I was invited by EMC to attend EMCworld 2015 which included both the public sessions, as well as several NDA based discussions. Keep in mind that there is the known, there is the unknown (or assumed or speculated) and in between there are NDA's, nuff said on that. EMC covered my hotel and registration costs to attend the event in Las Vegas (thanks EMC, that's a disclosure btw ;)…

VMware vCloud Air Server StorageIOlab Test Drive with videos

Recently I was invited by…

Modernizing Data Protection = Using new and old things in new ways

This is part of an ongoing series of posts that part of www.dataprotectiondiaries.com on data protection including archiving, backup/restore, business continuance (BC), business resiliency (BC), data footprint reduction (DFR), disaster recovery (DR), High Availability (HA) along with related themes, tools, technologies,…

Data Protection Diaries: Are your restores ready for World Backup Day 2015?

This is part of an ongoing data protection diaries series of post about, well, data protection and what I'm doing pertaining to World Backup Day 2015.

In case you forgot or did not know, World Backup Day is March 31 2015 (…