| AOL runs about 60,000 servers, Manos said, which are spread across five primary data centers in North America and Europe. "We're talking about dramatically reforming what was one of the world's largest Internet companies," said Manos |
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
AOL Has 60,000 Servers, Retooling for the Future
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Advantages of Disaster Recovery as a Service
| Nitin Mishra of NetMagic writes that choosing to go with a cloud disaster recovery service will be governed purely by the business imperative. If an organization has critical applications that should be available within minutes of downtime, it should consider cloud-based DR. |
Friday, October 21, 2011
Green Grid and New Measures of Sustainability
| This video gives an overview of new sustainability metrics in addition to Power Usage Effectiveness or PUE. The new sustainability measures for datacenters include Energy Reuse Effectiveness (ERE), Water Usage Efficiency (WUE), and Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE). |
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Cloud Computing: Could Your Cloud Dissipate?
| Nathan Hatch, President of C7 Data Centers, explains one of the central tenants of cloud computing: namely, where is my cloud and why should I care about its location? |
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Study Shows Cloud-Based DNS Outperforms in-House Systems
| A new vendor-sponsored study of the 1,000 biggest websites quantifies how much better third-party managed service providers are doing at operating DNS services across the Internet cloud than enterprises that run this critical network service themselves. |
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
How to Build a Turnkey Private and Hybrid Cloud - Three Essential Elements
| CIOs and data center managers are hesitant to place important data and applications in the public cloud. As a result, turnkey, ready to go, cloud solutions have become very popular. Here are the three essential elements that should constitute any turnkey private and/or hybrid cloud solution. |
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Are The Value of the Cloud and Telecommuting Overstated?
| In a recent survey of mid-market IT decision-makers, cloud computing adoption and support for telecommuting had surprisingly low scores. Both are still seen as an option and not an answer. |
"SWC Technology Partners surveyed 210 mid-market IT and business leaders and found that cloud computing, at least for the mid-market and even more so in the enterprise, is still very early in its evolution. The survey also revealed a few surprises about the acceptance of telecommuting in the mid-market."
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