Your cloud checklist for 2015
May 9, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Five years ago, the cloud computing discussion was in its relative infancy. Big companies recoiled in fear at the thought of giving up any precious data to nascent cloud services. Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud was just a twinkle in some developer’s eye. Salesforce.com had yet to launch its cloud-based application development platform, Force.com.
Fast-forward to the present day. Corporate America is tapping the cloud for everything but the most sensitive mission-critical applications. Amazon’s EC2 has become the dominant on-demand computing capacity resource for companies of all sizes. And many of Salesforce.com’s customers are using Force.com to build just about every application they need.
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Data Cave Enters Into Agreement with KAR Auction Services
February 14, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
DATA CAVE ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT WITH KAR Auction Services
Columbus, IN – (February 2011)
Data Cave, Inc., a state of the art data center facility based in Columbus, IN, announced today that it recently entered into a long term agreement to house strategic IT infrastructure for KAR Auction Services, Inc.
Caleb Tennis, President of Data Cave commented “We are very excited about the addition of KAR Auction Services to our growing list of clients. We are confident our highly dependable infrastructure will exceed KAR Auctions Service’s expectations.”
Data Cave, Inc.
Data Cave provides customers a private and secure environment for data center services, including colocation and disaster recovery solutions, from its newly built hardened data center facility in the Midwest. The 80,000+ sq. ft. facility was designed and constructed to withstand the most extreme natural disasters and is conveniently located to Indianapolis, Louisville, and Cincinnati. Data Cave is a privately held woman and minority owned organization. For more information, visit www.thedatacave.com
Raised Floor in the Data Center – obsolete?
November 22, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
The folks at Data Center Dynamics have a great post around the discussion of usage of raised floors in the data center going forward. The article basically says that raised floors have served their useful life, and are not needed moving forward. In fact, the cooling requirements and ever changing needs of the data center make raised floors a poor option for new construction data centers.
Of course, this debate has been happening now for a number of years. In 2007, Chuck Goolsbee was talking about the same thing in a TechTarget post – there are a number of great discussion comments in that post as well.
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Midwest data centers
January 6, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Putting your critical IT equipment in a midwest data center is an all around smart value proposition.