Colocation: When to Shut Down the Server Room and Open up the Cloud
What exactly are Colocation Services? The common calling card of the Network Administrator of the past was to: “Keep your users close, keep your servers closer.” They would break into a sweat at the thought of hosting mission critical servers in another building, let alone another state or by another company entirely. However, except for the largest of corporations, the current trend is to move away from locally hosted servers and server farms to co-located data centers, also referred to as Managed Hosting Solutions. Many Network Administrators & Network Engineers feared that the advent of these remote hosting solutions would rule their jobs obsolete, but just the opposite is true […]
Cloud Computing
Seeing Through The Cloud If you feel anything like I do, you probably feel bombarded by the IT world’s buzz phrase du jour, “cloud computing” and you, like me, have probably noticed that there is more than one definition for cloud computing being thrown around right now. With the number of ideas floating around the industry, it is no wonder that consumers are confused as to what exactly a “cloud” even is. Where things begin to get iffy is when “the cloud” evolves from just the cliched metaphor for the internet, into “cloud computing”, a giant fuzzy new frontier of uncertain meaning. To make things even more confusing is the […]
