by Sean Tario | Jul 30, 2012 | Case Studies, From our Newsletter, Tao of Infrastructure, What We're Reading
Reliability and uptime are major driving factors for every customer looking for a data center or to host “in the cloud.” So, why is it that Amazon seems to get away with so much down-time? The short answer is they don’t… or at least, we feel...
by Sean Tario | Jul 30, 2012 | From our Newsletter, Tao of Infrastructure, What We're Reading
Since we’re all about solutions here at OSI, we figured it wouldn’t be right to simply throw AWS ‘under the bus’ without providing some thoughts and ideas on how to most effectively prepare yourself from having a total system failure from...
by Sean Tario | Jul 12, 2012 | Case Studies, From our Newsletter, Tao of Infrastructure
Through a referral from one of our partners, we recently had the privilege to work on a project for a large global commercial real estate brokerage firm looking to perform an in depth study on Meet-Me-Room (MMR) pricing and best practices within multi-tenant...
by Sean Tario | Jul 4, 2012 | From our Newsletter, People We Like, Tao of Infrastructure, What We're Reading
The following article is being re-syndicated, courtesy of Software by Rob. About 8 months ago I acquired a small startup called HitTail. You can read more about the acquisition here. When the deal closed, the app was in bad shape. Within 3 weeks I had to move the...
by Sean Tario | Jun 26, 2012 | From our Newsletter, Tao of Infrastructure
In Cloud Divided Part One we examined the developing divide within the elastic hosting space between large public wholesale hosting providers such as AWS, Rackspace, and Google App Engine and smaller hosting firms run by teams of primarily veteran engineering talent....
by Sean Tario | Jun 1, 2012 | From our Newsletter, Tao of Infrastructure
Having kept a close eye on the elastic hosting ecosystem and all the players that have launched offerings over the past decade, we’re happy to see some real differentiation finally developing in this space. The one we will be focused on here is that separating...
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