Either you’ve outgrown your server space or you’re a brand new company that needs to find a data center. What do you do? Shopping for a data center seems like a daunting process and it really can be, but if you know what to look for, you’ll find the right place in no time.
First, you need to find a reputable broker and figure out your list of data center requirements, so the broker knows what kind of data centers to look for.
The specific requirements are where it gets a bit tricky. Let’s break it down:
You need to ask yourself how much power your current hardware uses. The average cabinet in a SingleHop data center ranges from 5-7 kw a cabinet. To put that into perspective, the average household alone uses 5 kw.
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Five Key Concepts Concerning AWS Reserved Instances & Consolidated Billing
Reserved Instances offer AWS users an opportunity to dramatically reduce costs. However, properly calculating purchases, allocating costs, and calculating ROI is not easy. Here are five key ideas to help users perform those tasks and optimize their RI usage.
When evaluating RI purchases, it is probably best to start with the basics of using RI within a single account. RI function like coupons. For an upfront fee, the purchaser obtains compute access at discount for the term of the RI. This ‘coupon’ is not assigned to a specific resource. Instead, it is applicable to specific type of resource (defined by class, size, AZ, and platform). The constraint is one of time – a coupon can only be used once during any given hour.
Five Key Concepts Concerning AWS Reserved Instances & Consolidated Billing
Reserved Instances offer AWS users an opportunity to dramatically reduce costs. However, properly calculating purchases, allocating costs, and calculating ROI is not easy. Here are five key ideas to help users perform those tasks and optimize their RI usage.
When evaluating RI purchases, it is probably best to start with the basics of using RI within a single account. RI function like coupons. For an upfront fee, the purchaser obtains compute access at discount for the term of the RI. This ‘coupon’ is not assigned to a specific resource. Instead, it is applicable to specific type of resource (defined by class, size, AZ, and platform). The constraint is one of time – a coupon can only be used once during any given hour.
Insuring Your Business Against Cloud Service Availability
It is difficult to anticipate cloud failures from the service provider. However, one way to protect your business from the availability and reliability related issues of cloud service providers is to invest in what is called a “cloud of clouds”. This is a network scenario where cloud based service providers integrate their platform with one another to build a topography that is seamless and works as a single entity for all purposes relating to data and infrastructure. Such a network protects the end user from any outage or service closure of the provider.
Insuring Your Business Against Cloud Service Availability
It is difficult to anticipate cloud failures from the service provider. However, one way to protect your business from the availability and reliability related issues of cloud service providers is to invest in what is called a “cloud of clouds”. This is a network scenario where cloud based service providers integrate their platform with one another to build a topography that is seamless and works as a single entity for all purposes relating to data and infrastructure. Such a network protects the end user from any outage or service closure of the provider.
Case Study: Making Money in a Cashless Economy
The world is going cashless – and USA Technologies will be there when it does. Their Knowledge Base Study shows an average 84% increase in cashless transactions sales at their secure cashless and wireless unattended POS terminals.
Case Study: Making Money in a Cashless Economy
The world is going cashless – and USA Technologies will be there when it does. Their Knowledge Base Study shows an average 84% increase in cashless transactions sales at their secure cashless and wireless unattended POS terminals.
Littlejohn & Co. Acquires Hostway Corporation
Littlejohn & Co., LLC, a private investment firm based in Greenwich, CT, on Monday acquired Hostway Corporation, a provider of hosted information technology solutions to over 500,000 small and medium-size businesses and enterprise customers. Littlejohn will serve as an active shareholder and board of directors in support of the Company’s plan to capitalize on the tremendous demand for hosted IT solutions.
Hostway delivers customized Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and Cloud solutions, a robust suite of web presence and web optimization solutions, hosted exchange and a variety of other value-added applications and services in customizable managed, shared, cloud or hybrid environments. Hostway has one of the industry’s broadest, most reliable and customizable hosting platforms, allowing it to serve start-ups, small and medium size businesses and large enterprises wherever they are in their IT lifecycles. Hostway has also developed unique, proprietary solutions for Telecos, VARs, Integrators, MSPs and other channel partners, which allow them to easily integrate Hostway’s solutions into their own offerings, including branded white label solutions.
Littlejohn & Co. Acquires Hostway Corporation
Littlejohn & Co., LLC, a private investment firm based in Greenwich, CT, on Monday acquired Hostway Corporation, a provider of hosted information technology solutions to over 500,000 small and medium-size businesses and enterprise customers. Littlejohn will serve as an active shareholder and board of directors in support of the Company’s plan to capitalize on the tremendous demand for hosted IT solutions.
Hostway delivers customized Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and Cloud solutions, a robust suite of web presence and web optimization solutions, hosted exchange and a variety of other value-added applications and services in customizable managed, shared, cloud or hybrid environments. Hostway has one of the industry’s broadest, most reliable and customizable hosting platforms, allowing it to serve start-ups, small and medium size businesses and large enterprises wherever they are in their IT lifecycles. Hostway has also developed unique, proprietary solutions for Telecos, VARs, Integrators, MSPs and other channel partners, which allow them to easily integrate Hostway’s solutions into their own offerings, including branded white label solutions.
Public Sector Cloud in 2014: Four trends you need to know
As we head into 2014, the potential for growth in public sector cloud services adoption looks more promising than ever.
The ‘Public Cloud First’ policy on IT procurement should continue to drive further growth in demand and the CloudStore marketplace provides a straightforward way for government departments to buy the services they need off the shelf.
But what will be the other trends for buyers of public sector cloud services in the year ahead? Here are four which I think are important:
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Belt and braces for cloud security – Many local and central government organisations in the UK must adhere to the PSN code of compliance by April 2014, which includes the need for a protective monitoring capability so that there is clear visibility around how IT systems are being accessed and used. I expect this will accelerate and drive wider adoption of GPG13 compliant security information and event management capabilities …