The Importance of INERGEN Fire Suppression in Data Centers
On average, a 14,000 square foot data center moves a 2,400kW electrical load and 700 tons of heat every single day. This places incredible electrical and mechanical pressures on circuits and opens a data center up to significant fire risks. To compound this problem, data centers pose unique challenges for fire suppression systems. Up until […]
Understanding What Are The Advantages of Colocation to Your Business
Colocation is the term used for servers and network connectivity systems that are housed within a remote data center and utilize cloud based technologies. At the most basic level, colocation (COLO) offers companies increased scalability, improved infrastructure and bandwidth, lower latency levels, increased security, and a host of specialist services. As technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, […]
Ensuring High Availability In Data Centers and Networks
Data centers have become synonymous with the concept of high availability and redundancy. Based on virtualization and utilizing cloud computing technologies, these data centers are known for offering their clients a level of availability they would be unable to achieve on their own. This virtualization allows the data center to treat the various servers like […]
Understanding Security and Compliance In Colocation Centers
The use of colocation services as a means of increasing productivity and reducing cost has become an ever-growing reality in today’s business world. More and more global enterprises are outsourcing their IT needs to cloud services and colocation centers as a means of reducing IT costs, increasing bandwidth and productivity and ensuring a higher standard […]
The Benefits of Data Center Interconnection Within Carrier Neutral Data Centers
As more and more enterprises are becoming multinational and the need for inexpensive, efficient and reliable data center connectivity increases, the use of data center interconnection is becoming a rapidly growing trend in the telecommunications world. A carrier-neutral data center refers to data centers that allow for interconnection between multiple carriers and colocation providers. The […]
How Smart Hands Services Can Help Your Business
One service ensures there’s someone on hand to respond immediately to address problems that might occur with your servers. Smart Hands service, provide remote management, custom installations, and equipment troubleshooting assistance 24 hours a day, 7 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Smart Hands Service extends your on-site IT presence by leveraging support […]
Preventing Disruptions Caused by Downtime or Data Center Outages
If you conduct transactions through a website or use hosted applications in the cloud, one of your main concerns is probably the reliability of your hosting provider. Even though most data centers provide very reliable services, data center outages still happen and continue to be a big problem for businesses that need to maintain an […]
How Your Data Center Can Help With Your Server Cooling Needs
Server Cooling Needs Modern servers need to be kept at a cool temperature in order to operate. They generate a large amount of heat especially when many servers are placed into a single room. Building a server room with this type of temperature control can be impractical for many businesses. Colocation services are a better […]
Just Released: Datacenter as a Service (DaaS) Case Study
SignaTouch is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider that assists healthcare and education organizations with improving the process workflow by means of mobile signature capture. The company has domestic and international offices and is headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida. Prior to moving to Volico, SignaTouch experienced continuous availability and bandwidth issues causing development delays. In the past, […]
The Advantages of Cloud Hosting and Cloud Virtualization
Increasing numbers of organizations are employing cloud computing. Expenditures by end-users for cloud computing services are expected to exceed $180 billion in 2015. Cloud hosting is growing at a rapid pace. What are the advantages of cloud hosting and cloud virtualization? Virtualization is the process of separating work processes from the hardware itself. Compute, network, […]
