There are clear benefits to having foreign data centers- lower energy cost, lower human costs, less chance of a natural disaster wiping out the whole infrastructure, etc. Some countries even advertise to large companies. Still, I've always wondered how something like this would fragment a corporate culture- how does a manager maintain ...
What is the ideal humidity level (or range) for a room dedicated to servers? ...
I need to propose a solution to a potential client who wants a good picture of the costs that would be incurred to implement the project. The only problem: I've never done any colocation before. Any Ideas? ...
Jeff Atwood talked about doing an ISP-to-ISP file transfer: http://friendfeed.com/e/63fb9e72-6cd5-a8ac-88dc-02ce720033f9/wow-just-did-an-isp-to-isp-file-transfer-650mb-in/ What is this? I tried Googling for it, but couldn't find anything. We have a need to transfer large amounts of data between two data centers, and this sounds inter...
There are different types of data-centers so I want to explain that I'm talking about data-centers setup with the purpose of providing content faster to a certain local on the planet. From what I understand, each data-center shares access to the data storage and basically just exists somewhere in the world to keep requests from travaili...