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Forecasting the Future of Cloud

Most of us are intrigued with the current cloud and data center landscape and how it will change in the near future. We have seen three fundamental changes that I believe will shape ...

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What Time is the Right Time for Colocation?

When does a small company decide to outsource data storage?

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Growing Up in the Data Center Industry

Research says that the average worker will change jobs approximately 12 times throughout their career. But Brouk Eshetu wasn’t interested in being a statistic. He wanted to find an ...

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Data Centers: Build vs. Lease

A list of 7 common considerations enterprises encounter when making a data center or colocation purchase Outsourcing data requirements to a third party for the first time can be ...

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From the Office to the Home: How to Manage Your IT Resources in this Remote Age

At the beginning of the year, several tech trends were set to dominate business IT system changes and innovations throughout all industries. Among these trends were: automation kicking ...

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Automation in a Multi-Cloud World

‍Note: This is a transcript from a conversation with Ciena Blue Planet in fall 2019; it has been edited for clarity. To listen to the recorded podcast, press play below.

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How Data Centers Enable Disaster Recovery On-Demand

Disaster can strike a business without warning. While business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning isn’t new, many of the threats facing businesses and the way they ...

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International Data Center Day 2021: Celebrate the 3rd Anniversary by Recognizing the People Behind the Infrastructure

There are millions of data centers in the world. Most people don’t give them a second thought day-to-day, they just know that with a click or two they can work, stream movies and ...

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Take Your Own Private Highway to Azure Global Cloud Services–by Way of Chicago

When you want to get to work fast, you take the express route. After all, the more direct and predictable the route is, the sooner you are productive and the less it costs to get ...

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