Data Center, Managed Server, & Colocation White Papers
Internet Delivery Stack
The Internet Delivery Stack™ (IDS) is a data center framework that identifies all the elements necessary to deliver a successful Internet experience to your end-users. This data center framework can be used to identify roles and responsibilities and to scope data center projects. Each of the 9 layers of the data center framework requires the proper design, implementation, and maintenance to assure a specific degree of security, reliability, and scalability in that layer.
Mass Digitization and the Internet
As data and business content becomes digitized and automated the need to store and manage this data has become eminent. Data is like money, as they both require safe, reliable storage needs. And as data becomes more important to everyday business operations, it is quickly becoming an irreplaceable business asset. To ensure your business’ data is secure, scalable, and reliable, your business needs a data center that provides security, reliability, scalability.
Colocation White Paper
Colocation is the practice of putting your equipment, generally Internet Servers, into a multi-tenant data center. There are many technical issues involved in designing, building and operating a colocation facility. This colocation paper cover three critical aspects of a co-location facility: the physical space in which the server sits; its connections for power and Internet connectivity; and the services that keep the servers operational.
High Availability White Paper
This high availability white paper describes the anatomy of a high-availability rack. This paper illustrates how redundant power and network connectivity help ensure a greater level of protection against any single point of failure, resulting in a higher up-time service level. A high-availability rack helps businesses survive network or power failures, keeping computers online and maximizing the potential to generate revenue.
Disaster Recovery Primer
This disaster recovery white paper provides a high level “risk model” for organizations to better manage their IT risks. This white paper also provides guidelines on how to measure risk in an environment with the very real possibility of both minor and major disruptions to their IT services.
Bandwidth Service Overview
When choosing the necessary bandwidth for your colocation or dedicated server application, there are several factors to consider. This document provides an overview of “Internet bandwidth” service. Internet bandwidth is the amount of data transferred between (to and from) the Internet. Understanding the difference between the speed of transferred data and the amount or number of bytes transferred your business requires can help you decide how much bandwidth you need to deploy. This Internet bandwidth white paper also describes how the industry calculates 95th percentile bandwidth measurements.
