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Colocation hosting and outsourcing management
Your primer to colocation pricing and rack space rightsizing
Even with structured pricing methods, there's a lot to consider when making colocation infrastructure purchases. Account for future hardware needs and spend flexibility. Continue Reading
remote hands
Remote hands is the general name for a service offered by colocation providers that enables customers to delegate IT management and maintenance tasks in a colocation facility to technicians hired by the provider. Continue Reading
colocation (colo)
A colocation facility, or colo, is a data center facility in which a business can rent space for servers and other computing hardware. Continue Reading
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Colocation pricing guide: Understanding data center costs
Colocation facility costs can include anything from power fees and bandwidth service charges to connectivity expenses, change fees and support costs. Continue Reading
9 considerations for a colocation data center selection checklist
Use this data center selection checklist to make fair and comprehensive comparisons between colocation data center providers before making a decision. Continue Reading
Uptime Institute’s data center tier standards
The Uptime Institute’s data center tier standards are a standardized methodology used to determine availability in a facility.Continue Reading
edge data center
Edge data centers are small data centers that are located close to the edge of a network.Continue Reading
HPC services bring computational power to more organizations
Navigating HPC colocation requires knowledge of power, uptime and security demands. Deploying such services can bring innovative opportunities for organizations.Continue Reading
Plan a successful migration to HPC colocation
If your organization decides to host its HPC hardware in a colocated data center, ensure a smooth migration with proper location selection, security measures and application testing.Continue Reading
Key components for negotiating an HPC colocation contract
When it comes to HPC colocation, there are specialized areas to cover in a service-level agreement. Review provider protocols for power, security and network connectivity.Continue Reading
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Tailor data center colocation services to your IT needs
Securing the right colocation contract takes time and research. When it comes to colocation options, evaluate facility location and provider services to get the right fit.Continue Reading
Colocation vs. cloud: Quiz yourself on these workload expansion options
Colocation or cloud? Data centers have plenty of expansion options beyond building a new facility. Learn about each option -- and test your knowledge -- with this quiz.Continue Reading
data center as a service (DCaaS)
A data center as a service (DCaaS) provider will supply turnkey physical data center facilities and computing infrastructure (e.g., servers, networking, storage, and so on) to clients in the form of a service.Continue Reading
How to build a successful colocation strategy
Proper evaluation of a colocation data center means reviewing geographic location, cost structure and accessibility to ensure the facility is right for their organization.Continue Reading
Pick the right colocation site for your organization
Colocation is more than signing a contract and installing hardware. Evaluate redundancy, rack space real estate and distance to ensure a successful colo partnership.Continue Reading
Choose the cloud computing deployment model that fits your data center needs
Organizations looking to the cloud to update their data center should consider the future development of systems management providers when selecting a cloud computing deployment model.Continue Reading
Three requirements for a hybrid cloud computing deployment
As the hybrid cloud computing approach gains steam, organizations will need to pay close attention to cross-cloud connectivity and management, plus microservices.Continue Reading
Words to go: Data center colocation services
Don't jump feet first into the colocation pool. First, make sure you understand the different options for colocation services and agreements, using these key terms below.Continue Reading
colocation marketplace
A colocation marketplace is an online platform that connects colocation users with managed service providers, IT vendors and potential business partners.Continue Reading
PaaS examples prove apps dictate infrastructure choices
PaaS is the least-known XaaS category. However, it is a great way to bootstrap custom app development and increase IT productivity.Continue Reading
What is the difference between hosted colocation and DRaaS?
Enterprise IT organizations know the importance of disaster recovery. But which fits the budget, in-house expertise and testing requirements: hosted colocation or DRaaS?Continue Reading
Two key disaster recovery colocation questions to ask
Choosing a disaster recovery colocation provider may seem daunting. However, knowing what to look for beforehand can help you make the right choice.Continue Reading
What to know about selecting a colocation provider
Selecting a colocation provider is about more than finding one with a low price. The quality of service and conditions spelled out in a colo service-level agreement, or SLA, will be important -- especially if something goes wrong. This handbook ...Continue Reading
These IaaS examples show data centers can share the load
Not every IT workload belongs directly under your control in the data center. Consider these IaaS pros and cons for example workloads.Continue Reading
Budgets prompt data center vs. colocation discussion
Rather than spending another budget cycle struggling to fund the data center, start outsourcing selectively -- and improve at the same time.Continue Reading
A cloud migration plan for conservative data centers
Enterprises migrating to the cloud prefer a slow and considered approach that protects sensitive data and ensures performance levels.Continue Reading
grid computing
Grid computing uses small, distributed resources from servers and PCs to solve big problems. But will this architecture survive the cloud era?Continue Reading
Find the right data center support for any IT organization
Most of the IT budget goes to maintaining the data center hardware and software. Consider outsourcing for better support.Continue Reading
Identify risky data center providers before it's too late
These tips from a data center design expert will keep you from partnering with an inadequate cloud hosting or colocation provider.Continue Reading
Does data center size matter in virtualization, DCIM decisions?
Are you big enough to take advantage of DCIM or virtualization for the power and cost savings? When it comes to certain moves, size is an advantage.Continue Reading
Colocated data centers uncut: Avoid these costly errors
Is a colocated data center in your future? When a rip-and-replace is out of the question, prepare for colocation, but plan accordingly.Continue Reading
Quiz: The ins and outs of data center colocation services
Data center colocation services allow businesses to expand computing power without a new building. This quiz will test your colocation knowledge.Continue Reading
capacity on demand (COD)
Capacity on demand (COD) is a purchasing option that allows companies to receive equipment with more computer processing, storage, or other capacity than the company needs at the time of purchase, and have that extra capacity remain unused and ...Continue Reading
Remote Job Entry (RJE)
Remote Job Entry (RJE) is a facility that allows remote computer users to submit a job (the running of a specific program or group of programs) to a centrally-located IBM mainframe computer.Continue Reading
liquid-tight strain-relief connector
A liquid-tight strain-relief connector is a special electrical connector or jacket used in cabling for electronic and computer systems where water or contaminant intrusion is a concern... (Continued)Continue Reading
Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM)
Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) is an open architecture from IBM for helping an enterprise manage the multiple user registries and identities that enable a computer user to access multiple applications with a single sign-on.Continue Reading
job step
In certain computer operating systems, a job step is part of a job, a unit of work that a computer operator (or a program called a job scheduler) gives to the operating system.Continue Reading