Infrastructure

Hospitals and the Technology to Fight Covid-19 Hospitals and healthcare workers are bearing the brunt of the Covid-19 outbreak across the world.  Everywhere people are trying to flatten the curve of the infection rate as Stay Home directives and self-quarantines are put in place.  People are worried about the burden on the hospitals, [...]

Remote Working and the Future of Infrastructure in an Online World The Remote Working Future: Part 3 This blog is part of a 3 part series. Read the other articles here: Part 1   •   Part2   •   Part3 Why are Internet Networks [...]

Remote Working and the Future of Infrastructure in an Online World The Remote Working Future: Part 2 This blog is part of a 3 part series. Read the other articles here: Part 1   •   Part2   •   Part3 More Businesses than ever [...]

Remote Working and the Future of Infrastructure in an Online World The Remote Working Future: Part 1 This blog is part of a 3 part series. Read the other articles here: Part 1   •   Part2   •   Part3 Remote Working on [...]

Many non-essential employees have started working from home to curtail the spread of Coronavirus. Additionally, the schools that closed have shifted to live streaming classes online. This shift in learning and working remotely has substantially increased the amount of internet traffic. As millions of furloughed employees are entertaining themselves online, they are causing [...]

Last week, COVID-19 caused restaurants, bars, and other businesses to close their doors for at least 30 days.  Furloughed workers exponentially increased the traffic to unemployment websites, setting a new record.  Reports show that 3.3 million people filed for first-time unemployment claims in the week of March 15.  The previous record for first-time [...]

  Will your fire suppression system impede a planned upgrade? Imagine this: you’re the head of IT for a major university. Jumping through hoops and dealing with red tape is your life. One day, you decide it’s time to upgrade your 10,000 square foot data center. The following improvements need to be made yesterday: air [...]

Cables. There are so many of them in a data center that if you stretched them out, end to end, well, you’d have a lot of cables to clean up. (Seriously, don’t do that. You’ll end up looking silly.) Still, the amount of cables in any given facility is no laughing matter and it’s important [...]

Unplanned downtime. The phrase alone is enough to send shivers down the spine of the most experienced data center operator. You also don’t have to look far to see high profile examples of companies that have felt the sharp pains of downtime incidents recently - from Delta Airlines to Wells Fargo.  Statistics often point [...]