Data Center Safeguards Redundancy and Reliability
When it comes to data centers, redundancy and reliability are similar but not quite equal. When it comes to understanding why redundancy and reliability is important in data centers, consider this statistic. According to the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington D.C, over 90 percent of businesses that experienced over 10 days of loss […]
Data Protection and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Unfortunately in life, terrible events such as natural disasters or other incidents happen almost every day. When these situations happen, one of the biggest problems for businesses that rely on vast amounts of data is disaster recovery. In today’s world, more businesses than ever need immediate and uninterrupted access to their data around the clock, […]
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 […]
How Cloud Computing Can Highly Benefit Education
Before cloud computing, companies needed to house large data centers in order to provide managed services to their clients. This required companies to invest large amounts of money in land, electricity, materials, and labor. Cloud computing gives businesses and end users access to unlimited amounts of computing power without the high cost of hosting servers. […]
The Inergen Fire Suppression System
A “Green” Environmentally friendly Inert Gas Solution to fulfill Fire Suppression requirements in today’s Data Center Facilities. In our new VOLICO 2.0 Broward Data Center, we are utilizing the Inergen Fire Suppression System manufactured by Ansul. This is an engineered fire suppression system utilizing a fixed nozzle gas distribution network. This system is also designed […]
How Managed Hosting Services Keep Your Business Safer
It’s important to make sure that you have the best services possible for your hosting company. This is because your hosting company determines a fairly large degree of how much success your business will have. Here are a few of the most essential features to look for in a hosting company as well as why […]
Why Your Business Should Rely Only On Certified and Compliant Data Centers
There are currently several types of certifications and audits that a data center can go through to show clients all systems are compliant with regulations, safe and working correctly. These include Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance, the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE 16) and the Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) 70. Your business […]
Someone Broke The Internet – Major Network Issue
On Thursday August 27th, 2015, Volico started receiving calls from clients regarding a network issue around 2:55PM EST. Volico Engineers were immediately notified and investigation of the network problem was immediately escalated to top priority. Volico Engineers noticed that multiple eBGP sessions where flapping from multiple providers. Volico immediately began opening upstream support tickets to […]
Ways of Boosting Server Efficiency
Data centers are always searching for a means to boost server efficiency. Organizations put a lot of pressure on IT experts to operate critical applications while at the same time maximize cooling efficiency and minimize power consumption. Some of the ways IT managers can make their servers efficient while maintaining cloud security include virtualization, use […]
Unmetered Hosting, Traffic & Bandwidth Guide
Larger websites require additional resources. They need more bandwidth transfer because they have both more content and more visitors than smaller websites. They can’t afford to pay the overages that some hosts make them pay, nor can they afford to have their websites forced down temporarily until their bandwidth cap resets. To do so would […]
