There are two different types of SAS70 audits. These are simply labeled as 'Type 1' and 'Type 2.' There is a little bit of a difference between the two based on what it is that needs to be reviewed wi..

A managed services provider, or MSP, is revolutionizing the way in which a business manages its information. This is because the MSP manages that information for the business, giving the business a li..

As the hub of the information technology department, data centers are an integral part of daily functioning for most companies. Preserving your data keeps your company running, and any downtime of th..

Fire damage, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, or other destructive events can mean the end of thousands of important files. Losing a small amount of information due to a power outage can be an annoya..

In today's fast-paced, information-reliant business world, high availability of data centers is a must. Hardware and systems availability increases employee productivity and reinforces a company's bot..

As businesses began to increase their focus on having reliable and available data centers, data centers began to grow in size and complexity. No longer a single room housing a comparatively simple co..

Ever wonder what type of server is in the rack at the data center used by your company? How about server brand trends around the country? Look no further: The four most popular brands of servers, in ..

While the data centre as we know it was perfected during the dot com boom of the late 1990s, data centres actually have their roots in the earliest beginnings of the computer era. Early computer syst..

There are many reasons in which a data center can fail. It can be quite frustrating, so it is important to know what those reasons are so that you can prevent them or know what to do when they happen...

When designing a computer network the old conflict of efficiency versus safety always comes up. The client is expecting data centre operations to optimise the maximum amount of data storage from the s..

If you have a high traffic website with dynamic features, then switching to a dedicated server is probably the best choice for you. The major advantages are faster load time, increased security, and t..

For any corporation that requires dedicated web hosting but doesn't have the expertise to oversee and maintain it, a managed dedicated server plan is the perfect option. To date there are no industry ..

Many companies are operating on a shared hosting service. A shared web hosting service is web hosting that shares the web server with many other websites. Each site basically has its own partition t..

Since the publication of the Stern report, climate change and measures to reduce the carbon emissions of business have been placed firmly on the agenda of regulators and legislators around the world. ..

From environmentalists and regulators, to CIOs and data centre managers, the 'green' data centre is now firmly on the agenda. Rightly so, with an average rate of energy consumption around 50 times gre..