Cloud Platform Services Manager
As long as Microsoft has been releasing new versions of its Windows operating system and ending support for old ones, there have been companies that put off migrations to the newer OSes for as long as possible. This time around is no different. With extended support for Windows 7 set to end in January, many…
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a proven way to minimize IT costs while maximizing scalability, security, uptime and resilience. IaaS is also an opportunity to be perplexed by all the choices in technology and service providers, potentially winding up with a hodgepodge solution that undermines your business goals and bottom line. That complexity is…
A squirrel chewing through wires outside Yahoo’s data center in 2010. A ship dropping anchor on communication lines running underwater. There are some odd, nearly impossible occurrences that have caused unplanned downtime. Yet the most common cause of data center outages remains human error. And the more public the use of the facility, the more…
