To the Cloud and back again – 451’s study on Colo to Cloud to Colo again…
The 451 Group recently published an update to their 2017 article article "Why Companies Move Apps from Colocation to Cloud, and Why some Move Back". In their original article, they reached out to uses of both Colocation and Cloud services to get their insights. Some...
Critical Times – Hybrid Data Center can help
We are in the midst of an unprecedented time not seen in modern history. The COVID-19 virus has spread quickly across the globe and the response has led to massive disruptions in North America. Every family, person and business has been impacted by the pandemic and...
Data Center Secrets – Technology has no ethics – your provider should
Time to dust off the blog and start providing some hopefully insightful content regarding the data center and cloud industry at large. Apologies for the large gap in time – we’ve been busy! Given some recent examples in the news, we thought it appropriate to discuss...
Achieving Success with the Hybrid Cloud
Over the past several years, hybrid cloud environments have become very common among enterprises. It began with the acceptance by enterprises to house sensitive, mission critical data and infrastructure in 3rd party, managed colocation facilities. Then cloud emerged...
The Role of Colocation in the Hybrid Cloud
As companies continue to build hybrid cloud environments, the role of colocation continues to be instrumental. From bringing together private and public cloud infrastructure to securing data stored across cloud systems colocation is a necessary part of the final...
Costs of IT Disasters and How a Data Center Can Help
All network professionals are familiar with technology outages and many have been unfortunate enough to experience them first hand. Outages are more than an inconvenience, they can have disastrous economic affects on businesses. Because of our dependency on data and...
5 Do’s and Don’ts for Data Center Migration
As your business applications and data needs grow over time, companies can outgrow their infrastructure. Growth is supported in bits and pieces, integrating additional compute and storage but eventually many are faced with a dilemma. Aging hardware needing...
Cloud vs. Colocation: Why both are necessary for the enterprise
The idea of centralized data centers in Toronto or any major center is not new. The concept existed even in the days of the ENIAC, one of the earliest models of the computer but the idea took off during the internet era – i.e. during the “.com bubble”. Over the past...