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How do you drive your IT?

05.16.2012 By: Leave a Comment
How do you drive your IT?

Speed, performance, high-tech. Just a few of the things that come to mind when you mention Formula One racing, which we have been heavily involved in since the season started this year. (Go Nico Hülkenberg and Paul Di Resta!) Interestingly though, these same words are synonymous with the demands of IT professionals today across many industries -- which is why we set out just a few weeks ago to find out how these professionals are leveraging their IT to meet these demands. Roadtrip! Kicking … Read More...

Filed Under: Formula One

What Formula One can teach us about testing, performance and results

05.11.2012 By: Leave a Comment
Motor Racing - Formula One World Championship - Formula 1 Testing - Day 1 - Mugello, Italy

Motorsport teams, especially Formula 1, test their cars and equipment as much as they can. Why do the teams test?  They do this so they can bring the best possible combination of parts and strategies to the race. Over the past few days, all of the F1 teams have been allowed to bring their cars and equipment to Mugello, Italy to test. This is one time during the race season where official testing on the cars can be performed in real-life conditions. (Meaning not on a simulator or in a wind … Read More...

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Cloud Hosting, Formula One, Managed Hosting
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Five ways cloud is like coffee

05.10.2012 By: Leave a Comment
Five ways cloud is like coffee

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 expectations, and cloud might not come through in the same way. But once you get past that first taste and better understand it, you'll start to like it. Just don't pour cream and sugar … Read More...

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Cloud Hosting

Bursting at the seams? Try a cloud diet

05.09.2012 By:
cloud diet

Stretched to the max? Running out of room? Carrying around the weight of the world? Sound like you? Sound like your IT systems? The good news is it isn’t all bad news. You could be suffering from these symptoms because your business is booming! But keeping up with all the growth can be challenging. Your IT systems are just one cog in the wheel for you, your organization and your employees to keep pace. How in the world can you handle all of it? Enter your very own cloud superhero! … Read More...

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Cloud Hosting, Managed Services

Why TCP acceleration matters to the CDN – Part 3

05.08.2012 By: Leave a Comment
Global Content Delivery Network

If you’ve already read part one and part two of this series, you should now be an expert on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) acceleration. All right, maybe not an expert, but close. So, let’s tie it all together. As a follow-up to parts one and two, we’ll take a look at a CDN workflow use case to see why coordinated acceleration across the entire CDN is necessary to enhance performance. The use case involves a CDN customer that wants to deliver a … Read More...

Filed Under: Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Why TCP acceleration matters to the CDN – Part 2

05.04.2012 By:
CDN ingress egress

In my last post, I got you up to speed on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) acceleration. Now, I’ll take you through how TCP acceleration can be applied to three areas of a CDN network. Ingest into the CDN Getting content into the CDN can be a painful process if you have massive amounts of large content. Strategies like RYNC and FTP drop folders, which are used to manage the ingress of content, are common. Upload managers that utilize UDP and … Read More...

Filed Under: Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Why TCP acceleration matters to the CDN – Part 1

05.03.2012 By: Leave a Comment
CDN for data and content delivery

I often get asked about how a Content Delivery Network (CDN) works and how companies can get the most use out of this service. In my three-part post, I will be answering those questions and explaining several ways to optimize the performance of a CDN. To begin, I’ll discuss what CDN and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) acceleration technologies are and why optimization is important. In part two, I’ll explain how TCP acceleration applies to a CDN, and finally in part three I’ll take you … Read More...

Filed Under: Accelerating the Internet, Content Delivery Network (CDN), Educational

What does success mean for you?

05.02.2012 By: Leave a Comment
failure is not an option

For this week’s mashup I “Googled,” Binged,” “[insert search engine here]” the phrase “what is success?” The first result on the page was obvious: the dictionary definition of success, following that was a website: www.what-is-success.com, which is a book promo site, and then an ezinearticle: "What is Success and How Do We Achieve it?” Here’s what the author had to say: “To be clear about what success is must be the first step to achieving success. So far, the best … Read More...

Filed Under: Colocation, Data Centers, FYI, Thought Provoking

Mom’s meatloaf and a little secret sauce called MIRO

05.01.2012 By: Leave a Comment
Mom's meatloaf and a little secret sauce called MIRO

Growing up my mom made a point to make a home-cooked meal every night. You could say we were a real meat and potatoes, traditional American family. In fact, one of Mom’s specialties was her made-from-scratch meatloaf, an all-American favorite, although it was anything but traditional. You see, it included a secret sauce that made it extra special and unique from the other run-of-the-mill loafs out there. It was something that many family members have tried to duplicate, but none have yet … Read More...

Filed Under: Accelerating the Internet

Why does the IT director cross the street?

04.27.2012 By: Leave a Comment
Why does the IT director cross the street?

I don’t know about you, but when my sweet tooth hits, I need a cookie…stat!  Which really got me thinking, are today’s consumers — who want things better, faster and cheaper — having a technology sweet tooth, in need of immediate satisfaction? Just viewing trends in consumer behavior over the last few years — it certainly seems to be the case. But as technology professionals — what can we do to satisfy their cravings? In the age of the cloud, it’s a game of time…provisioning … Read More...

Filed Under: Cloud Computing, Cloud Hosting, Managed Hosting
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