Blog Entries tagged 'data-center'

The rise of Cloud Computing

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

No longer just a vague concept, the term “cloud computing” is being thrown around with increasing frequency. In a nutshell, cloud competing is becoming popular because it offers economic solutions to many standard problems associated with both wired and fixed line comminations platforms.

Generally speaking, cloud computing at the consumer level, the concept of cloud computing is receiving increasing buzz due to the concept gaining significant traction with business.

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An Overview Of Server Colocation

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

For cost-conscious enterprises, collocation is a viable option. the total cost of ownership in IT is the total cost of the staff and infrastructure to support your business. When crunching numbers to determine the total cost of servers supporting the company’s websites and how that fits into your day to day operations, disaster recovery and business continuity plans, take that one step further to compare those numbers versus colocating your servers in a data center. In a hosted environmen [...]

Green Data Centre, Eco-friendly and energy efficient

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom is focusing on green technology and monitoring IT energy consumption in our Data Centre to establish a Green Hosting environment. Understanding what Green Servers actually mean Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom is focusing on green technology and monitoring IT energy consumption in our Data Centre to establish a Green Hosting environment.

We are:

Measuring and monitoring what impacts power management and metric [...]

Data Center Infrastructure

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Best Practice in Data Centre infrastructure requires that any provider’s data infrastructure should not just match, but preferably exceed, the standards set for a customer’s own internal infrastructure. An in-demand infrastructure must serve thousands of customers, each with their own compliance policies, varying distribution of users, and peaks and troughs of usage.

Best practice data centre infrastructure must deliver acceptable response times to all users, irrespective of locati [...]

Windows Hosting

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

The Windows platform, offering a user-friendly setting that is quite familiar to its desktop environment, makes it easier to use for administrators. Instead of complex commands, management tasks can be handled, essentially from easy to use tools. Macquarie Server Hosting serves clients adopting the Windows platform. Clients requiring windows Hosting can look forward to:

Dedicated use of a Windows server.
High traffic volumes
Sensitive customer content requiring accredited securit [...]

Dedicated Hosting & Infrastructure

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Online applications have become increasingly essential to the success of business and government organisations. If IT solutions are built on technology, then the quality of that technology directly impacts the services delivered. When you choose the right Dedicated Host, your business benefits from the maximum reliability and top performance than comes from disaster proof multi-million dollar infrastructure.

Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom specialises on Dedicated H [...]

How the Data Centre Started

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

The data centre, often called a server farm, holds storage systems and telecommunications. The data centre houses computer systems and the related components. Originally conceived after the advent of desk top computers, the data centre’s use became more widespread in the late 90s, during the dot com boom days. From its early evolution when computer mainframes were huge and storage devices even bigger, the data centre has evolved to a facility which can be secured on a dedicated basis.

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Data Centre Facility Fact Sheet - The Intellicentre

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Data Centre facility at ISO standard

Intellicentre has attained ISO 27001 security standard. This means it is built to a standard higher than AS2834. DSD Highly Protected ASIO T4. The facility has other features:

To ensure that facility meets contemporary certifications a number are listed herein: these certifications (vendors and third party) include: PCI DSS, SAI Global - ISO 27001:2005, Microsoft Gold Partner, VMware Authorised Hosting Provider, RedHat Enterprise Hostin [...]

Data relocation and its storage

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

A National Broadband Network combined with expanding IT systems across small to medium-sized businesses, large global companies and government agencies as well as migration of paper records to e-health, have placed enormous and mission critical reliance on IT systems for moving, protecting, creating and storing data.

Businesses now more than ever are faced with an ever-increasing convergence of digital media and applications. Cloud computing, rapidly emerging as a technology, is mov [...]

How the Data Center started

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Storage systems and telecommunications are stored in a facility called a data center or data centre. Also called a server farm, a data center houses computer systems, and its related components. The data center was perfected in the late 90s, during the dot com boom days.

But it actually originated during the earliest days of the computer. As you know, early versions of the computer were enormous and consumed a lot of space. The difficulty of operating and maintaining these machines le [...]

Green Computing 2

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Our computers have opened a new vista of communication for us. They connect us to any place and at any time as per our requirements. The world has indeed become a smaller place now that space-time itself is being reduced to a point. But excessive dependency on machines to do our work is doing no good to the environment. Millions and millions of computers worldwide are emitting green house gases and other toxic materials that are doing much harm to the ozone layer in our atmosphere and the env [...]

Data Center Tips 3

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The whole prospect of relocating a data centers to professional vendors. This is because, a lot of forward planning has to go into this seemingly intimidating task and it requires specialized tools and equipments which most enterprises would not possess. However, it is also important to entrust this responsibility to a vendor with the best track record. Data centers are by default extremely fragile and vulnerable systems and any loss of data or loopholes may result in a loss of hundred thousa [...]

Data Center Tips 2

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

While considering a relocation to data center, one must stop a while to ponder on certain questions which would prove beneficial to the whole relocation process. Do you know your budget? Has the destination been fixed? Have you decided the move date? Is a move plan in place? Have duties been allocated? Have you weighed up the impact of downtime to your business? Is there a risk or a contingency plan in place? Data center relocation is never an easy task. It may eat up into regular business or [...]

Data Center Tips 1

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

relocation is never an easy task. But moving mission critical computer, servers, and other related hardware needn’t be an overwhelming task. It should not consume one’s time, energy and money. Careful planning and organizing people and workforce accordingly would ensure a successful and hassle free relocation. Usually data center relocation.

Identify operational objectives and make them reference points during the pre-planning process.
Relocation must be done with the help of pr [...]