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April 2, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 2, 2014

Greenpeace Gives Out A Bunch of F’s for Data Center Energy Grades

Uh oh, these data centers’ parents are NOT going to be happy… Data centers are some of the biggest energy hogs, no doubt. Renewable, sustainable and green energies have been coming to the forefront of data center power grids recently, […]

April 1, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 1, 2014

Best April Fool’s Day Pranks 2014

Don’t believe everything you see. Today or ever. Mostly today, though… Today is April 1st, which means its April Fool’s Day, which means every thing you read on the Internet today is probably a lie. But at least they’re entertaining […]

March 31, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on March 31, 2014

What You Can Learn from Healthcare.gov’s Failures

Healthcare.gov went down this morning to the surprise of nobody… If you were one of the millions of people trying to sign up for healthcare under the ACA this morning, and you tried to use Healthcare.gov, you probably still haven’t […]

March 31, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on March 31, 2014

Data Center Protest Raises Questions About Power

Protests about a data center in Newark might affect facility design in the future… A recent trend in data center construction and design for larger facilities is to implement on-site power generation—building what amounts to a small power plant that […]

March 28, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on March 28, 2014

Target Lawsuit Puts Bullseye on PCI Compliance

How can companies stay secure in an ever-changing security landscape? Target can’t catch a break. First it’s their big holiday hacking scandal where they lost the credit card info of nearly 40 million customers to a hacker. Now, they’re getting […]

March 28, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on March 28, 2014

Encryption Virus Holds Your Data Hostage

Encrypting your data for security is good. Encrypting your data for ransom is terrible. Encryption can help protect your data in the event of some prying eyes by encoding the data so that only authorized users can see it. Encryption […]

March 27, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on March 27, 2014

Tech Giants Team Up to Create Giant Database

Big companies need big software for big data. Big data, “Big Table” and now big collaboration. Facebook, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn went all ‘Avengers’ on everyone and teamed up to develop a new database based off the MySQL database program […]

March 26, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on March 26, 2014

Obama to Ask Congress to End NSA Data Collection

In your face, spies! It took a long while, but they’re about to finally change things around with how the NSA works. President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to end the bulk collection of phone metadata by the NSA, […]

March 26, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on March 26, 2014

Does Your Data Center Pass the Performance Test?

It’s like an SAT score for your data center… There’s a lot of factors that go into creating a great data center—from a layout and design standpoint to how well your actual equipment performs—that need to be taken into consideration. […]

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