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April 15, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 15, 2014

New Survey Shows SMB Owners Can Benefit from Colocation

A new survey shows that colocation can help small business owners… The National Small Business Association recently conducted a survey of more than 800 small business owners in regards to their use of technology in–and the security of–their company. The […]

April 14, 2014

Published by Chris L on April 14, 2014

Apple Goes Green(er), Buys Hydroelectric Plant to Power Data Centers

Apple busts out the green to go greener… Apple is furthering their green energy initiative by purchasing a hydroelectric plant near their Prineville, OR data center. Because if you want to go green, you might as well work with the […]

April 10, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 10, 2014

Data Centers and the Entertainment Industry is the Perfect Rom-Com

Data centers become increasingly important in the digital-entertainment age… Hollywood is the land of glitz and glamour, the ‘Home of the Stars’ and where the majority of movies and TV are created, produced and filmed. While data centers might not […]

April 9, 2014

Published by Chris L on April 9, 2014

‘Heartbleed’ and You: What You Need to Know

It sounds like a rejected Game of Thrones city… Well, the Internet practically fell apart yesterday. It was revealed that there is an incredibly serious bug in Open SSL, nicknamed “Heartbleed”, that allows hackers to access pretty much all the information […]

April 8, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 8, 2014

Seattle to Use Data Center Power to Warm Buildings

Seattle has come up with a great way to use heat from data centers… Seattle, WA has come up with an ingenious idea to wipe away some of the carbon footprint that goes along with running a data center. Officials […]

April 7, 2014

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Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 7, 2014

Get Another Cup of Coffee: Wi-Fi is About to Get a Speed Boost

I’ll take a mocha and your Wi-Fi password, please… Everyone likes quick Wi-Fi—that’s a fact. Wi-Fi is like the lifeblood in a bloodless, non-connected world. Well, things are about to get a whole heck of a lot quicker in the […]

April 4, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 4, 2014

NASA Goes Open-Source, Wants You To Build Your Own Moon Rover

I’ve always wanted to build my own satellite orbiting software… Space is vast, but the world of space exploration is about to get a lot more open…sourced. NASA has officially decided to release all of its software code for all […]

April 3, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 3, 2014

Long Live Servers: Why Peter Coffee and Gigaom Are Full of It

I applaud his gusto… Recently on Gigaom, Peter Coffee of Salesforce.com wrote an article entitled ‘RIP, the server. It’s time to breathe the air of cloud connection’. You can read it here. As a guy who writes wordy headlines and […]

April 2, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 2, 2014

DDoS Attack Map Shows Realtime Cyber-attacks

Ever want to see a visual map of cyber-attacks? Sure you do… We talk a little bit about security, keeping safe online and how to keep your data secure in the case of a threat. One of the major threats […]

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