A colocation centre (also spelled collocation, colo, or coloc) or carrier hotel is a type of data centre where multiple customers locate network, server and storage gear and interconnect to a variety of telecommunications and other network service provider(s) with a minimum of cost and complexity. Most Internet exchange points provide colocation.

The heat wave is on here in the Northeast with temperatures at or over 100 degrees now for the last week.

Computer rooms and data centers have been filling up with more and more equipment adding to the heat produced. Many companies have also started the move towards virtualization, buying ever more powerful servers that produce more heat. Moving to blade servers is also becoming commonplace in many computer rooms and data centers and for good reason. They are more efficient, saving money and improve a company's 'green' credentials. However, they do produce a lot of heat in a small area which will be a problem if there is insufficient cooling to cope with a hot summer.
 

No organization expects to have a breach; in fact, most organizations have gone to great lengths and spent tremendous amounts of money to prevent them from happening. However, a strategy is needed to minimize the cost and reputational damage associated with a data breach when proper prevention techniques fail.

Starting to grow weary of hearing the term “The Cloud”? What is it exactly, and what does it mean for you and your business? Ask Google the question, "What is cloud computing?" and you will get more than 3.5 million answers. Here’s a small sample of what you’ll find. Cloud computing is...

You know very well how critical your data is to your organization and how much your business would be impacted were that data to become unavailable because of a major IT outage.  Organizations typically rely on traditional tape backup to guard against this eventuality. More comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) solutions that automatically maintain up-to-date copies of data at a remote location are desirable, but are often unaffordable for two reasons: either the solutions require very expensive equipment on both ends, or they require modifications to every host. The former is beyond the scope of the small to medium size enterprise, the latter is host-invasive, complex and difficult to manage.