Average Cloud User Leverages Six Different Clouds: Report
Maturing cloud practices are leading the average cloud user to leverage six different clouds, between running applications and experimenting on public and private clouds, RightScale said in its latest report. Source: Web Hosting Review
Google and Level 3 Interconnect Network Backbones
Network peering is one of the wonkier areas of the internet and data center infrastructure world, but performance of internet services, be they online video or cloud infrastructure, depends greatly on how efficiently companies behind those services and service providers they rely on exchange traffic with others. Source: Web Hosting Review
Open Source DCIM Software Project Combats Spreadsheet-Based Data Center Management
You cannot improve what you cannot measure. It may be a persuasive argument, but it hasn’t been persuasive enough to deliver the explosion in adoption of Data Center Infrastructure Management tools vendors were promising a few years ago, when DCIM software was considered a big “emerging” market. Source: Web Hosting Review
Five Things Every Administrator Must Do To Keep Their Server Secure
Is your server as secure as you think it is? Let’s rephrase that. Are you doing everything you should be doing to protect your organization? Source: Web Hosting Articles
IBM Doubles Down on Digital Agency Business with exc.io Acquisition
IBM has announced plans this week to acquired German digital marketing company exc.io to add digital marketing, commerce and platform skills to IBM Interactive Experience (iX). Source: Web Hosting Review