-- Inc. magazine ranked Net2ez Managed Data Centers No. 945 on its fourth annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America's independent-minded entrepreneurs. Music website Pandora, convenience store chain 7-Eleven, Brooklyn Brewery, and Radio Flyer, maker of the iconic children's red wagon, are among the prominent brands featured on this year's list.
A week after Iron Mountain announced that it had replaced its CEO, the company said it's considering selling its archiving, e-discovery, and online backup and recovery business to return to its roots in document and tape storage services. "There's no guarantee a deal will get done, because we're still early in the process, but we have good interest. And as you can imagine, these processes take a matter of a few months before we know it will unwind itself," said Richard Reese, who abruptly took over as CEO on April 14.
Force10 Networks recently unveiled data center core and top-of-rack switches that mark the first offering of high-density 40/100G Ethernet taking data center network solutions into the zettabyte era according to Network World. Exactly how big is a zettabyte? Most major switch vendors offer exabyte-scale data center networks. An exabyte is equal to 1 million terabytes or 1 billion gigabytes.
Google is shedding some of the secrecy around its data center practices, with a new video that shows extensive security measures and the destruction of old hard drives to prevent leakage of customer data. Google "rigorously tracks the location and status" of each hard drive, destroying failed hard drives with a multistep process before gathering the mangled bits in boxes to
The U.S. government has been urging green IT practices in its operations, consolidating data centers and offering telecommuting. Now it wants to go a step further and use its formidable buying power to encourage IT vendors to go green. The federal government spends about $80 billion annually on IT. If that amount of spending was counted as revenue, federal IT would rank around No. 21 on the Fortune 500 list.
Tom Gonzales is planning to shrink his company's data center footprint from 45-by-15 feet to a mere 12-by-12 feet -- and he couldn't be happier. "We're using more space than we need," he says. "We're going to return some of that to the company." Gonzales, senior network administrator at Denver-based Credit Union of Colorado, says smaller is better when it comes to data centers -- now more than ever, given the tight economy. "It's time to do more with less," he says.
Companies today face numerous and constantly changing backup challenges. As a provider with more than a decade of experience in online backup services, we’re seeing some new emerging trends in the types of issues that organizations will need to overcome in the future. In the early days, organizations were primarily concer
