With all the hype around cloud these days, figuring out where cloud fits and where it doesn’t can be challenging. Virtualization often gets confused with private cloud, but in fact, virtualization is usually a component of cloud, whether public or private. Let’s consider a couple of real-world examples to illustrate the difference between virtualization and [...]
The difference between private cloud and virtualization
06.04.2013 By:
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5 best practices for successful system administration
04.10.2013 By:
For successful system administration, you need more than just the required technical skills. Below is a list of five slightly non-technical abilities that should be developed in order to become the best system admin ever. 1. Monitor, measure, and record. Yes, you know what the swap usage is today because there’s a problem with the [...]
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Backups and backup strategies (Video)
02.19.2013 By:
It’s important to have a backup strategy to ensure you’re backing up the data you need, so that in the event of a recovery – whether from a server crash or other disaster – you can restore the data as quickly as possible. We’ve identified four things you may want to consider when deciding what [...]
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The difference between vertical and horizontal scaling (Video)
02.12.2013 By:
When your servers have been pushed to their limits, what options will you consider to increase their capacity? To handle more traffic, you can always add more RAM or a bigger processor, but this vertical scaling method can still restrict future growth. Including a plan for horizontal scaling as part of your IT Infrastructure could [...]
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Community Notes
01.31.2013 By:
In 2012, Internap embraced social media as a way to engage with the community of customers and buyers of IT Infrastructure. As part of the next step in our evolution, Internap is working to be more engaged with the local user groups and development communities. As part of my new role as Internap’s Hosting Evangelist, [...]
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Five ways cloud is like coffee
05.10.2012 By:
1. You rarely like the first taste. My first drink of coffee was straight black, without cream or sugar. It was the nastiest thing I ever tasted. Even with cream and sugar, it is definitely an acquired taste. Cloud is very much the same way. If you’ve been running physical servers, you have certain performance [...]
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Amazing ideas learned from Startup Riot ‘hackathon’
02.23.2012 By:
One of the coolest things about start-up and entrepreneurial events is the amazing ideas people come up with. Internap and Voxel sponsored one of these events here in Atlanta called Startup Riot, organized by Sanjay Parekh. Part of this year’s event was a 48-hour “hackathon” called the Startup Riot Make. In the Make event, 11 [...]
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The year of cloud?
02.16.2012 By:
Several years ago the word “cloud” entered into popular use around the time of Amazon’s AWS service launch. In that era, many hosting providers were offering virtualization of some sort, but a lot of us were scratching our heads on this whole “cloud” thing. “A server available on an hourly basis? Why would anyone want [...]
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