Trend 2: The rise of the multi-tablet household Content owners are now faced with the challenge of providing an optimal user experience for a variety of devices, including tablets. As the number of multi-tablet households increases, customers are using them in different ways – smaller devices are more likely to be used for eBook reading, [...]
Gaming’s mega month
11.06.2012 By:
It’s going to be a mega month in the gaming world with today’s release of Halo 4 and other big title releases such as Assassin’s Creed III, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, F1 Race Stars, Madden NFL 13 and Lego Lord of the Rings. With all the scheduled releases, it’s obvious that gaming is [...]
Technology that changes the world in an instant
10.12.2012 By:
Gangnam Style. You’ve probably seen the video, heard the song, watched the interviews and are aware of its extremely viral nature. (If you’ve been living in a cave — which apparently I was because I only learned of it late last week – check it out on YouTube. Nearly 440 million others have.) Another example [...]
F1 in Schools World Championships: Go Team Shift, Go USA!!
10.09.2012 By:
2012 has been delightful for speed lovers of every kind. With the U.S. once again hosting the United States Grand Prix, the first since 2007, many can’t stop the excitement and noise about the races, the teams, the speed and the skills behind each win. Internap is very much part of all the excitement through the [...]
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Five trends to watch for content owners: HTML5 versus Flash
10.04.2012 By:
This is the final segment of a five-part series on trends for content owners. Catch up on the rest of the trends here. In November of last year, Adobe confirmed what the news analysts had been predicting for months: Adobe was discontinuing its development of mobile browser Flash in favor of HTML5. It’s true — [...]
Five trends to watch for content owners: Mobile and the demise of the content schedule
10.02.2012 By:
This is week four of a five-part series on trends for content owners. Catch up on the rest of the trends here. Humans are creatures of habit. We are hard wired to build routines and establish schedules, even subconsciously. It’s nice to know that on Thursday night at 9:30 PM ET you can sit down, [...]
Five trends to watch for content owners in 2013: Part two
09.18.2012 By:
If you are just joining us, this is week two in a five-part series on trends for content owners in 2013. Last week I discussed how privacy concerns are threatening content consumption and preference sharing and how content owners are responding. Let’s get started with number two on the list: the rise of the multi-tablet [...]
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Five trends to watch for content owners in 2013
09.14.2012 By:
We live in the age of information with anything you need to know literally at your fingertips via smartphone, tablet, laptop and more. With content accessible on a multitude of different devices and available on demand, content producers must stay ahead of the trends to make sure their media is at the ready in any [...]
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Four ways to become more green
09.13.2012 By:
One of my childhood favorites said it best, “It’s not that easy being green.” Kermit the frog had it right, but we aren’t just referring to color. In this case it means green sustainability; it means energy efficiency, and it means cutting-edge practices to deliver major operational benefits. Achieving these is no small task, especially [...]
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Six questions to ask when reassessing your IT goals
09.07.2012 By:
Every summer Formula 1 takes a break from the ‘circus’ with a two-week enforced factory shutdown. The teams are not allowed to work in the factory or on the cars. It gives everyone the chance to sit back and relax from the first half of the year. What it also does is give the teams, [...]
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Video blog: IT Infrastructure for online gaming
09.06.2012 By:
From the age-old arcade favorites like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Pong to the lovable Nintendo Mario Brothers or the highly addictive World of Warcraft, the culture, technology and business of video games has slowly filtered down into your living room, your PC and even to your mobile phone. If you haven’t touched a joystick in [...]
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The six keys to disaster preparedness: Communication best practices
08.23.2012 By:
If you are just joining us, this is the fifth installment of a six-part series on disaster preparedness and choosing a data center services provider that can handle emergencies. We’ve gone through the essentials of disaster-resistant design and infrastructure, documented response plans, mock drills, preventative maintenance and are now moving on to communication best practices. [...]
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Achieving the high score: Trends in online gaming webcast tomorrow
08.21.2012 By:
Do I have game? I’d like to think so. Now back in the day, I’d dabble a bit at the arcade with some Donkey Kong, Centipede and Q-Bert (that orange guy with the big nose sure was cute). Move to the 90s and add a little Nintendo action with the Super Mario Brothers and then [...]
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The six keys to disaster preparedness: Preventative maintenance
08.16.2012 By:
In addition to design and infrastructure, emergency response plans and mock drills I have explained in my previous posts, a highly-structured and robust maintenance program is crucial in preventing a disaster from impacting business. Your data center services provider should have a Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to keep track of when maintenance is due [...]
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The six keys to disaster preparedness: Mock disaster drills
08.09.2012 By:
Last week I discussed the importance of choosing a data center services provider with a documented emergency response plan in my list of six keys to disaster preparedness. Now its time to put that response plan into practice with mock disaster drills. A provider may have seemingly perfect site disaster preparedness plans — on paper! [...]
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AgileFILES now integrated with the AgileCLOUD platform
08.07.2012 By:
Internap has been offering cloud storage solutions since June of 2011, allowing users to leverage our scalable OpenStack-based cloud storage platform for their applications and deliver their content via Internap’s Performance IP™ and CDN service. As of this month, we’ve consolidated our object storage service, officially dubbed AgileFILES, with our virtual compute, bare-metal cloud server [...]
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Three considerations for creating online gaming infrastructure
07.10.2012 By:
The 1980s marked the “golden age” of arcade video games. All you needed was a fistful of quarters for an afternoon of fun playing favorites like Pong, Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. Although you can still find those same classics on display as antiques in pizzerias, today’s gaming industry has morphed to include a multitude of [...]
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Data drives demand — all the way to the west coast
06.29.2012 By:
It’s no secret demand for data center space is on the rise. The technological capacity to store information has roughly doubled about every three years since the 1980s, to the point that 90% of the data that exists on Earth has been created in the last two years alone, according to IBM. Pretty amazing to [...]
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London takes on IT of Olympic proportions
06.28.2012 By:
Yesterday, I watched a friend of mine compete in the U.S. Olympic Trials for swimming. I streamed the live webcast and sat through race after race waiting for those 4 minutes and 11 seconds of glory when she would swim the 400 IM. Through countless heats, eight swimmers at a time dove into the pool [...]
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Internap plus Voxel equals advanced routing, an expanded network and new hardware
06.21.2012 By:
During this Q&A Vice President of Hosting and Operations Support for Internap, Zachary Smith, talks about the technological impact of Internap’s recent acquisition of Voxel and why the marriage is a fortuitous one for both companies’ customers – and for the team at Voxel. (For one, the newlyweds got to experience the geek equivalent of [...]
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Winning innovations in engineering and energy
06.19.2012 By:
You might not know it unless you have worked in a data center on a daily basis, but a lot goes in to the day-to-day maintenance of these places. I recently got a chance to visit our Santa Clara and Dallas data center facilities and let me tell you… there are checklists for checklists, 24/7 [...]
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Hybrid hosting: Your on-ramp to the cloud and more
06.14.2012 By:
Where are you in your cloud evolution? With a multitude of disparate applications, use cases and business lifecycles, organizations may be at vastly different points in their cloud adoption and may find it difficult to decide on the right cloud model. But who says you have to choose? As explained in our recent webinar, “Is [...]
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Bursting at the seams? Try a cloud diet
05.09.2012 By:
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 [...]
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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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IT Infrastructure flexibility key for anytime, anywhere access
04.17.2012 By:
Anytime, anywhere access is becoming the standard. According to Forrester Research, nearly 60% of all corporate employees share, access and manage content outside the office – with their laptop, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android and more. Indications are that number is only going to increase. Just take a look at a recent infographic on working from [...]
Domestic server room closet abuse
03.30.2012 By:
In a former life, I worked for a small IT services firm who managed the networks of small to medium-sized businesses in our area. The customers we saw often housed their servers in a spare closet somewhere in the office. Gasp! Poor, scared servers left in hot, dark rooms where employees (and sometimes even outsiders) [...]
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Momentum defined
03.27.2012 By:
Momentum is defined as the force or speed of movement. Momentum means going forward, moving ahead and ultimately making progress. Momentum is something we are experiencing at Internap with the multitude of recent events and new clients announced in just the last few days. Momentum at Internap is apparent with the recent news that we [...]
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Cloud: Lessons learned over lunch
03.16.2012 By:
I recently presented to an audience of technology executives in Silicon Valley on strategies and considerations for adopting cloud services. This particular session was actually a lunch-and-learn that we jointly conducted with VMware, a partner and integral component of our solutions. Being a very technical savvy audience, we got many interesting and detailed technical questions on a [...]
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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 [...]
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How do you plan for your future IT needs?
02.28.2012 By:
Applications can grow at exponential speeds and sometimes your IT Infrastructure just isn’t up to the task. But deciding which platform can manage your growing computing needs best isn’t always an easy pick either. Our webinar last week, “Is Your IT Infrastructure Future-Proof?” gave attendees use cases for multiple IT platforms, including colocation, hosting, cloud [...]
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