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Five Qualities of Stellar Colocation Services

Choosing a colocation is no less than choosing a business partner. You need to be assured of the commitment, the transparency of operations and last but not least, a long lasting dedication to the vision.

Housing your mission-critical business application at someone else's facility is a big decision and needs a careful discretion and long term planning. You may…

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Added by Radhe Dhakad on May 22, 2015 at 10:20 — No Comments

Why Is Colocation So Hot Right Now?

In the past couple of years, colocation has gone from a term that many business leaders would not likely be able to define, to one that is at once high on the priority list and commonly incorporated into the corporate lexicon. This raises the question as to why colocation has become such a commonly sought-after set of solutions among businesses and public sector entities, and…

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Added by Leigh Genetti on May 19, 2015 at 15:21 — No Comments

The New Era Of Business Continuity

Many of the most exciting and popular new trends in corporate computing have had direct implications to disaster recovery and business continuity, including cloud hosting and colocation. From boosting the elasticity of operations through flexible, agile and seamless solutions to creating…

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Added by Leigh Genetti on May 18, 2015 at 16:40 — No Comments

Shared Hosting Vs Dedicated Hosting

With different hosting options like shared server hosting and dedicated server hosting available in the hosting world, it can become really confusing to make the right hosting choice for your website or application. So, let’s take a quick look at these hosting options to gain a better understanding.

Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is a Service in which a Server and its allocated resources are shared among several users. All…

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Added by Radhe Dhakad on May 1, 2015 at 15:11 — No Comments

Data Center Industry Auction - Buy the "The Data Center Professionals Network"!

The Network is for Sale!!!

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Thanks for joining us and taking the time to learn more about this opportunity.

The business world continues to change at a rapid pace. Social media is now an…

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Added by DCPNet Admin on March 27, 2015 at 13:30 — No Comments

Server and Storage I/O Benchmarking and Performance Resources

Server and Storage I/O Benchmarking and Performance Resources

server storage I/O trends

The following are a list of various articles, tips, post and other resources about server storage I/O performance benchmarking for legacy, virtual, cloud and software defined environments along with associated tools.…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 3:43 — No Comments

Server and Storage I/O Benchmark Tools: Microsoft Diskspd

Server and Storage I/O Benchmark Tools: Microsoft Diskspd (Part I)

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This is part-one of a two-part post pertaining Microsoft Diskspd.that is also part of a broader…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 3:36 — No Comments

Server and Storage I/O Benchmarking 101 for Smarties

Server Storage I/O Benchmarking 101 for Smarties or dummies

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This is the first of a series of posts and links to resources on server storage I/O performance and benchmarking (view more and follow-up posts…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 3:29 — No Comments

VMware announces vSphere V6 and associated virtualization technologies

VMware announces vSphere V6 and associated virtualization technologies

server storage I/O trends

VMware has announced version 6 (V6) of its software defined data center (SDDC) server virtualization hypervisor called vSphere aka ESXi. In addition to a new version of its software defined server hypervisor along with companion software defined management and convergence…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 2:53 — No Comments

Testing your HDD, SSD or all flash array (AFA) storage primer

How to test your HDD, SSD or all flash array (AFA) storage fundamentals

Storage I/O trends

Over at BizTech Magazine I have a new article4 Ways to Performance-Test Your New HDD or SSDthat provides a quick guide to verifying or learning what the speed characteristic of your new storage device are capable of.…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 2:44 — No Comments

If you are focused only on cost you might miss other cloud storage benefits

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If you are focused only on cost you might miss other cloud storage benefits

Drew Robb (@robbdrew) has a good piece (e.g. article) over at InfoStor titled Eight Ways to Avoid Cloud Storage Pricing Surprises that…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 2:36 — No Comments

Gathering Transaction Per Minute from SQL Server and HammerDB

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Gathering Transaction Per Minute from SQL Server and HammerDB

When using benchmark or workload generation tools such as HammerDB I needed a way to capture and log performance activity metrics such as transactions per minute. For example using HammerDB to simulate an application making database requests performing various transactions as part of testing an overall system solution including server and storage I/O activity. This…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 2:28 — No Comments

Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Cross Region Replication storage enhancements

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Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Cross Region Replication storage enhancements

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently among other enhancements announced new Simple Storage Service (…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 2:17 — No Comments

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

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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…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 2:10 — No Comments

Tap Into Smarter Business Processes With VPS Hosting Solutions

The rage of web hosting services in India is consistently changing with the evolution of new and innovative technological platforms. Even, people understand the key difference between the traditional hosting techniques and improved virtual private server hosting now. They have acknowledged the restrictions of shared server hosting and shifting towards the option of…

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Added by Bhavna Singh on March 20, 2015 at 8:18 — No Comments

Boost Your Sales By Making the Right Server choice for Your E-Commerce site

Which server is best for your e-commerce site- Dedicated Server hosting or Other hosting? Let’s know here

At present and in the near future, the time is ripe for the businesses to enter the vast online world as it already being witnessed all over the Internet. With a great surge in E-Commerce stores, there is a paradigm shift in how people sell and buy goods & services and how it is serving as a medium of easing the process by being…

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Added by Radhe Dhakad on March 16, 2015 at 12:05 — No Comments

VPS Hosting: Every Feature Counts for Smooth Functionality

Virtual private server hosting seems like only option that strikes into the mind whenever we are asked about reliable and affordable dedicated hosting services. Indeed, it is often referred as the best combination of the shared and dedicated server that’s ruling over the heart of business owners due to the brilliant performance. Even webmasters are very obsessive to achieve success in the modern-day market of cut-throat competition, but many-a-times restrictions at financial end make them…

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Added by Bhavna Singh on March 12, 2015 at 8:54 — No Comments

How To Run A Reseller Hosting Company

With the evolution of the e-world, web hosting has gained paramount importance. Every organisation or e-business venture needs to actively maintain their online presence. This is achieved through data centers in India. But the few of you who are not capable of having their own super built up high tech infrastructure, but have those ‘byte-thoughts’ can still involve in this profitable business by being a Reseller.

You can…

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Added by Radhe Dhakad on March 2, 2015 at 10:09 — No Comments

Private Cloud Hosting: A Trend of Future

One of the hottest trends in technology now-a-days is private cloud hosting and you might be scuffing up your head wondering what this term actually refers to. This sort of hosting services is more often referred as dedicated cloud hosting; it is not just a standard type of internet hosting. It is much more.

Private cloud hosting is basically a type of internet hosting in which the…

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Added by Bhavna Singh on February 26, 2015 at 9:22 — No Comments

Why India is a New Hub for Data Centers?

On the track of seeking digitalised lifestyle India features more connected community, counts largely on digital devices & demands instant access to the data. With the expansion of digital era everyone ranges from an individual to an organisation need for their own ‘space’. It is this requirement of server hosting, either it is shared hosting or…

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Added by Radhe Dhakad on February 24, 2015 at 10:30 — No Comments

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