I Outsourced It
Have you ever wanted to tell your CIO that? His response might be, “you outsourced what?? You respond, “it!” With a perplexed look he asks again, “You outsourced what, it?” Again you respond with, “All...
View ArticleBackups: It’s Good to Have Them!
Man, was this a weekend for me and backups! The first one I needed was for my second advance free fall course at skydive101.com on Friday (My Saturday). I jumped out of the plane a little early and one...
View ArticleBackups Are Not the Whole Story
Last night while making my regular backup for my World of Warcraft configuration, I thought about the blog and I didn’t remember seeing an article that went into more detail than “backups are good”...
View ArticleI have backups…Don’t I?
There is some confusion out there on what’s a good way to back up your data. In this article we will go over several options for good ways to backup and sore your backups along with a few ways that are...
View ArticleThink Large, Think Global!
As an executive at Softlayer, one of the things that I am amazed by is the number of unique and extremely innovative ideas that we see on a daily basis from our customers. We love the fact that these...
View ArticleHow Many Recovery Plans Do We Need?
Several of our bloggers have written about backups in The InnerLayer. This morning, I had an experience that makes me wonder how many recovery plans we need. I walked out of the house to the driveway...
View ArticleAvailability with NetScaler VPX and Global Load Balancing
The concept Single Point of Failure refers to the fact that somewhere between your clients and your servers there is a single point that if it fails downtime happens. The SPoF can be the server, the...
View ArticleWhy Redundancy is Important!
The other day everything was going so well – I woke up in a fantastic mood, ate a great lunch, accomplished all of my work for the day, and left on time! I was thrilled that my day went so well, then a...
View ArticleAlways Have a Backup Plan…
Everyone always says it’s a good idea to have a backup plan just in case your primary plan bites the dust. I couldn’t agree more. Recently my personal Xbox 360 failed and this has caused plenty of...
View ArticleData Center Power-Up: Installing a 2-Megawatt Generator
When I was a kid, my living room often served as a “job site” where I managed a fleet of construction vehicles. Scaled-down versions of cranes, dump trucks, bulldozers and tractor-trailers littered the...
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