Big Brother(s) are Watching
When news came out about whistle blower Snowden releasing "classified" information about PRISM and the NSA recording conversations from the American public, I was one of many in the IT industry who responded with, "ummmmm, yeah, duh, why is this getting so much...
Cloud vs. In-House IT
It is true that AWS and other elastic compute providers are constantly lowering their pricing for compute resources on-demand. It is also true that AWS clients have the ability to reduce their rates even more by committing to minimum compute utilization thresholds....
Tribute to William F. Hartnett, Jr.
On Monday July 15th, 2013 I lost one of my most valued professional, spiritual and personal mentors and one of my most beloved friends, role models and confidants. His life was impressive by all standards, especially given he grew up from very humble beginnings,...
Rent Seekers Suck
Have any of you seen the new Honda commercials that feature some of the brilliant new and inspirational technologies that have come out over the past few years? Do you laugh like I do when Honda tries to compare themselves to these innovators and market disruptions...
Why IPv6 is Relevant
Definitely not today, tomorrow or this year, but within the next few years IPv6 will be a forced reality for everyone. It is very true that IP address protocol will not affect the majority of the worlds population, as the heavy lifting will be done behind the scenes,...
State of The Stack 2013
If you have anything to do with data centers or private, public, hybrid IaaS environments, you should be following Randy Bias, Founder of www.CloudScaling.com. The man is the definition of a thought leader in this industry, and I've been blessed to have met him when...
CloudHarmony
I'll keep this short and sweet... if you're ever out looking for performance benchmarks or tools to help you get smarter about how your application(s) will run in/on/around "the cloud", you NEED to visit www.CloudHarmony.com ASAP and especially view their "Benchmarks"...
DSE is the new PUE
In the data center world, “PUE” (Power Usage Effectiveness) has been a big thing over the past few years. The lower your PUE, the more “effective” and efficient your data center… meaning, the less the customer pays for power (in theory) and the more money a provider...
Security Considerations for the Cloud
Submitted and written by Derek Garnier, Data Center, Network, Cloud Computing Specialist and Industry Veteran Rather than focus on specific security issues faced by service providers, this article will discuss two areas of security concern for Enterprise users: Cloud...
Data Center Colocation Industry Training
The team here at Open Spectrum is excited to launch a new division of the company we are calling DELTA FORCE IT. Its primary purpose is to raise the collective consciousness of those currently within, or simply interested about, the Data Center Colocation, Hosting and...