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Server colocation: Technology Toolbox

Protecting your data from a catastrophe is vital. Selecting the right vendor to protect your data is one of the most important decisions an IT professional will make. Use these tools to assess your needs and qualify the right vendor the first time. Sample tools are available for free trials.

Tags: Server, Colocation, Tool, Productivity

Download resources 2004-03-09

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Windows server monitoring and reporting

I am looking for recommendations for software that can monitor a number of windows SBS 2003 and server 2003 and services such as external databases and ftp sites both locally and located in our colocation facility that will email my blackberry or sms if any set errors or events occur.Can...

Tags: cedwards@..., monitoring, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-04-19

colocation facilities: Firms bear the burden of boosting data security

Colocation facilities are supposed to be safe havens for a company's valuable data. Yet one security expert rarely finds one that holds up to the promises of security. Read ahead to find out how you can improve the security of data stored off-site.If you’ve stored valuable data in a colocation...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, data security, John Connell, Mark Seiden, colocation facility, security

Technical articles 2001-06-13

Carrier neutrality: colocation gets a little more stable

Most IT managers have a list of personal "colocation relocation" horror stories, which invariably start with a letter from a carrier or facility whose venture capital has dried up and is closing its doors for good, usually in two weeks or less. This starts a frantic search for new facilities,...

Tags: carrier, Christopher Fuller, colocation facility, Exchange, Paul

Technical articles 2003-07-15

ExaGrid: ColoSpace Customer Success Story

ColoSpace, Inc. is founded in 1996 and headquartered in the Boston, Massachusetts area, the company got its start by providing Internet access and server colocation space. ColoSpace needed to offer highly reliable storage that would provide the greatest possible protection against data loss. ColoSpace also needed cost-effective disk-based backup that...

Tags: Disk, Backups

Case studies

TSL Enhances the Delivery of IT Financial Management Services With IBM e-Business Hosting

A premier provider of information technology (IT) financial management services for Fortune 1000 clients, TSL (www.tsl.com) assists customers in controlling and reducing IT-related costs with a comprehensive suite of capabilities, including bill audit and optimization, invoice management and chargeback and software services. The challenge was to implement a scalable, security-rich...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, E-business, IBM Corp., TSL, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Management

Case studies

Server 2003 computer account deleted and readded; login unsuccessful

I have a 2003 server sp2 that is going into a colocation, and a replication of an IMAIL server currently in production. The odd thing about this server is that after deleting the ptr records for its host name in the DNS server,resetting the original computer account and then ultimately...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, r4lanmgr@..., Service Pack 2, server, computer

Discussion threads 2007-04-02

Web Services Firm Uses Shared Configuration, Reduces Server Setup Time by 80 Percent

Adhost, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is one of the Pacific Northwest's leading providers of server colocation and shared server hosting. It manages two high-tech data centers in Seattle, Washington, and serves over 3000 business customers across the region. Adhost built its first three Web farms using Windows Server 2003,...

Tags: Web, Web Service, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-02-01

HRsmart Employs Services Available on Demand From IBM to Deliver Business Processes Dynamically

HRsmart delivers affordable, customizable talent management solutions-encompassing services such as recruiting and staffing, performance management and career development services-via the Internet. Faced with rapidly increasing competition, the company felt it needed to transform its colocation hosting model, which required significant front-end investment to bring new clients on board and could...

Tags: Business Process, Pricing Strategy, IBM Corp., HRsmart, Professional Development, Pricing, Server Virtualization, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Virtualization, Marketing Research, Corporate Governance, Career, Marketing, Servers, Hardware, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Case studies

Exchange & ADSL/dynamic IP

Are there any Exchange administrators out there running ES2003 with a dynamic IP address on the WAN side of the firewall? My intent is to accomodate a user's in-house *and* external messaging needs in this scenario. We have an existing e-mail service in place via the ISP, and I am...

Tags: Exchange, Internet Service Provider, IP, IP address, it management, netjustin, server

Q&A 2005-07-14

Issues to consider in deciding where to house backup systems

This article was originally published in the Disaster Recovery e-newsletter.During any failover emergency, you need a place to actually fail your systems over to so you can get them back online. To secure the appropriate space, you'll need to work closely with the people who are responsible for facilities management...

Tags: backup, backup system, data center, disaster recovery, Mike Talon

Technical articles 2003-10-14

Tech Tip: Address proper facilities in your DR plan

By Mike TalonDuring any failover emergency, you need aplace to actually fail over your systems to so you can get themback online. To secure the appropriate space, you'll need to workclosely with the people who are responsible for facilitiesmanagement in your organization. In small organizations, this is...

Tags: data center, disaster recovery

Technical articles 2003-12-08

Attack brings a system security wake-up call

On a Saturday morning in late January, many system administrators woke up to cell phones and pagers alerting them to serious network problems with their servers. A worm targeting SQL Servers had hit company and commercial data centers around the world. In fact, a national bank’s ATM network was brought...

Tags: e Advantage, Microsoft SQL Server, password, patch management, security, server, worm

Technical articles 2003-02-11

Five ways to secure your organization's information systems

Securing your network requires help and support from the top of your organization to the bottom. These TechRepublic resources can help with everything from writing a security policy to giving net admins the tools they need to respond to virus attacks.Due to a range of events—terrorist attacks, downtime as a...

Tags: Mike Walton, information system, security, security policy

Technical articles 2001-10-02

Limit bandwidth on a Cisco Catalyst switch port

A TechRepublic reader recently e-mailed me to ask about limiting the bandwidth on a Cisco Catalyst switch port. In fact, there are a number of uses for this configuration. Let's take a closer look. Why should you limit bandwidth? There are a number of reasons for limiting bandwidth...

Tags: Cisco Catalyst, Bandwidth, Router, Cisco Systems Inc., David Davis

Blog posts 2007-12-06

Equip ASP.NET with an error trap to catch unexpected errors

By Mike GunderloySee how familiar this scenario sounds: You develop a new Web application and test it exhaustively in-house. Then you deploy it to the client’s server, and mystery errors start cropping up. Of course, Murphy’s Law being what it is, the client’s server is usually in a colocation facility...

Tags: Application Error, Lark Group, Inc., Microsoft ASP.NET

Technical articles 2003-05-13

Outsourcing disaster recovery operations, part 3: Finding the right partner

Mike Talon outlines some of the issues you should consider when shopping for an outsourcing partner to assist you with your disaster recovery operations. Once you've made the decision about the functions of disaster recovery (DR) that you want to outsource, the next step is finding...

Tags: Mike Talon, Business structures, Data centers, Backups, disaster recovery, outsourcing, partnership, storage, outsourcing firm, Disaster Recovery Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Tape Backup Storage, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Hardware

Technical articles 2005-09-19

The changing landscape of hosting services

In the wake of industry leader Exodus filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a Gartner analyst and EDS' vice president of hosting services predict significant changes in the hosting landscape.A September 2001 article in InternetWeek named Exodus Communications, EDS, and IBM as the "big three" of the U.S. hosting market, and...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Beth Blakely, Exodus Communications, Ted Chamberlin, data center

Technical articles 2001-11-29

Get IT Done: Consolidating servers can be stymied by several roadblocks

By John R. Phelps and Carl ClaunchThe major cause of unsuccessful server consolidation is poor planning that does not take account of the possible roadblocks that must be overcome. Although many of the items to consider are small and may not apply in every environment, they can mount up quickly...

Tags: consolidation, Gartner  , Get IT Done, senior management, server

Technical articles 2003-09-25

Vendors and the limits of partnership

IT managers who try to embrace vendors as partners could be in for a rude awakening. Artner's Law explains why you should look before you leap onto the partnership bandwagon.When it comes to the latest corporatespeak, I tend to be a contrarian. The more I hear about the latest buzzwords,...

Tags: Business structures, Bob Artner, partnership

Technical articles 2001-01-04