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Want Smarter Hands in the Data Center? There are several benefits to using a third-party provider for data center smart hands services compared to using the services offered by your data center operator: Cost: Third-party smart hands providers may offer more competitive pricing than data center operators, which can be a significant benef...

Equinix Gets Illuminated: Lighting Plan Seeks to Brighten Data Center Alley Equinix will add decorative lighting to its DC21 data center in Ashburn's Data Center Alley, using colored LED lights to celebrate holidays. It's a response to critiques that data centers are visually unappealing.

Why Hybrid Cloud Models Are the Key to Success To be successful, today's data centers must incorporate colocation as well as public and hybrid cloud models.

COVID-19 has pushed more businesses to the data center / Cloud. If you need help making the leap, please contact us today.

COVID-19 Pandemic Drives Data Center Leasing to Record Heights Data center customers have leased more than 500 megawatts of capacity in 2020, an all-time record.

Wishing everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving!

Beyond Colo: Equinix Repositions as Digital Infrastructure Company • Data Center Frontier Equinix, the world's largest provider of colocation and interconnection services, provider, is repositioning itself as "the world's digital infrastructure company." It's the latest wrinkle in the language of the data center industry.

Need Internet redundancy? Portal Systems can help.

COVID-19: Weekly health check of ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services Thousand Eyes, which tracks internet and cloud traffic, is providing Network World with weekly updates on the performance of three categories of service provider: ISP, cloud provider, UCaaS

Data Network Traffic Impact From COVID-19 Here's a "by the numbers" summary of the latest data points on COVID-19 related driven traffic gains for Zoom, VPN services, video games, cloud computing, Internet exchanges, content delivery networks and other online services.

Just received our /36 IPv6 allocation from ARIN. Time to deploy four octillion, nine hundred fifty one septillion, seven hundred sixty sextillion, one hundred fifty seven quintillion, one hundred forty one quadrillion, five hundred twenty one trillion, ninety nine billion, five hundred ninety six million, four hundred ninety six thousand, eight hundred ninety six addresses.

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