Are you the SMB or new startup who began housing a server in your spare closet? Or is your mid-size business booming with application usage and customers who can’t get enough of your product? Or are you the enterprise that has the hardware, capital and manpower you need, and are now considering building your own [...]
Is Colocation part of your 2013 IT strategy?
12.07.2012 By:
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Formula One returns to the United States
11.21.2012 By:
Naturally, performance is key to the Sahara Force India Formula One Team, and also to the IT infrastructure that Internap provides. Well, let me assure you that performance was alive and well this weekend at the Circuit of the Americas. I had the privilege of attending the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas and spending [...]
Filed Under: Accelerating the Internet, All Posts, Customer Stories, Educational, Formula One
Global Trends of Cyber Security
11.20.2012 By:
To discuss the global trends of cyber security, we must first discuss the motivation behind the actors who are delivering malware into environments, running distributed denial of services attacks and causing breaches across the industry. There are three main reasons for performing malicious attacks on a corporate environment: for profit, espionage and hacktivism. For Profit, [...]
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Why TCP acceleration matters to the CDN – Part 1
05.03.2012 By:
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 [...]
Filed Under: Accelerating the Internet, All Posts, Content Delivery Network (CDN), Educational, Product
What Formula 1 can teach us about teamwork
04.20.2012 By:
Formula 1™ is a very competitive sport and business. With the average team spending tens of millions, and the top teams spending hundreds of millions of dollars, each team is trying to get the most effective use of their money and resources. The goal of the team is to win races and to win championships. F1 [...]
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The cloud wars
04.18.2012 By:
Sounds ominous, doesn’t it? Not really. We published this great infographic (well, we think so) about the differences in Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud. And, given all the continued discussion in the media about which cloud to adopt for your applications, my mashup this week highlights some of the key points, as well as the [...]
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The enterprise data center
03.08.2012 By:
I responded to a question on Quora a few weeks ago that asked how enterprises separated premium data centers from some of the “bargain” options on the market. In short: experienced data center buyers take the time to understand a service providers’ performance track record. Most performance issues can be lumped into three silos: reliability and [...]
Filed Under: All Posts, Data Centers, Educational, Industry Insights, Managed Services, Thought Provoking
Is America Losing Its (Technology) Edge?
02.01.2011 By:
A recent Newsweek story, “ A Case of Senioritis”, includes excerpts from Bill Gates’ speech to the Council of Chief State School Officers. In the speech, Gates states, “If there’s one thing that can be done for the country, one thing…improving education rises so far above everything else!” The story also has some interesting figures: [...]
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XIPing Past the Commodity Clouds
01.25.2011 By:
The market for on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure services that turn IT into a utility for businesses continues to expand rapidly. While initial use cases for such cloud services have been for application development and testing environments, the success of that model over the past few years is leading many companies to broaden their usage of outsourced [...]
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Trust Still Trumps Products for Online Shoppers
12.21.2010 By:
Online shopping is on the way up, and it’s easy to see why, especially during the holiday season – no fighting mall crowds, standing in lines or transporting gifts to far-away friends and relatives. In fact, consulting firm FTI just released its 2010 Retail Report, which showed online retail to be the best performing market [...]
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SLA = So Long Accountability?
12.16.2010 By:
If you pay for something, whether it’s a hamburger, car or IP connectivity, you expect to get what you pay for. If you don’t, you want your money back. That’s why Service Level Agreements (SLAs) drive network connectivity and IT infrastructure purchase decisions and provide an on-going ‘insurance policy’ for enterprises with their service providers. [...]
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‘Tis the Season for Online Shopping
12.07.2010 By:
It’s that time of the year again – wintery weather, too much food, and holiday wish lists filled with iPads, Kindles and more. And according to analyst firm Forrester, this year people will make more than 1/3 of their holiday purchases from the comfort of their Internet connection – with online sales in the U.S. [...]
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Cloudy With a Chance of Confusion
11.17.2010 By:
While “cloud computing” has been reverberating as a hot topic in the telecom and IT trade press for years, you know it is reaching critical mass when USA Today writes about it. In fact, that story about how small businesses are able to leverage a host of services and applications delivered from the cloud is [...]
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