by Mark MacDonald | Jun 30, 2016 | C15Edge Data Centers, Cloud, Data Center, Data Center Secrets, Data Centers, Edge
Plus ca change … (my best grade 11 french!) We at Canada151 Data Centers are of course trying to keep a finger on the pulse of all changes in the IT landscape and we observe and participate in the ongoing debate between cloud, private cloud (and all other...
by Mark MacDonald | Jun 30, 2016 | Cloud, Colocation, Data Center Secrets, Disaster Recovery
This is recycle of a previous post of a backup and disaster recovery post. However it is again timely as we are having numerous discussion across may industries about this topic. Our discussion includes what needs to be done to mitigate the very serious risks of not...
by Mark MacDonald | Feb 19, 2016 | Backup, C151, C15Edge, Cloud, Colocation
A Server is A Server & Clouds Are Not Always Benign: Colocation versus Cloud for Disaster Recovery and Backup I recently came across the following article titled “10 best practices for using the cloud as a backup and Disaster Recovery service” . While I agree...
by Mark MacDonald | Nov 6, 2015 | Cloud, Data Center, Hybrid
I recently came across this article in one of my LinkedIn Groups. The Blog compares Cloud to the evolution of distributed power generation to centralized power generation (although Cloud really is distributed computing and interestingly, we are to an extent going...
by Mark MacDonald | Oct 9, 2015 | Cloud, Data Center
How moving to the Cloud saves you money. I liked the metaphor however the author (s) failed to mention the cost associated with Cloud and related services: the more a variable cost your usage is the greater the per usage cost, holding all else constant. Extending the...
by Joe Damiani | Jul 14, 2015 | Cloud, Data Center
Republished with Permission from StackIQ. July 13, 2015, Don MacVittie, Sr. Solutions Architect. Funny thing about the never-ending discussions of cloud, virtualization, and containers out here in pundit-land… Most writers blithely ignore the one truth that all of us...
