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A good colocation provider that also has a Managed Service staff can help you monitor your equipment, troubleshoot any IT problems such as OS patching, Firewall configuration, Switch/Router configuration etc., thereby providing more reliable IT support than the IT consultant (mentioned in the previous blog post) that you are dependent on.

Do I need a Colocation solution? Or should I move to the Cloud? This a question that is often asked by IT Managers/Directors and CIO’s and business executives. The interest in colocation as a trend is decreasing as evidenced by doing some keyword comparison in Google Trends as evidenced by the figure below:

This is part four of a four-part series on Disaster Recovery (you can find part one here, part two here and part three here), where we’re covering the processes essential to putting together a rock-solid Disaster Recovery system. In this last part of the series, we will discuss the importance of performing Predictable Data Recovery.

This is part three of a four part series on Disaster Recovery (you can find part one here and part two here), where we’re covering the processes essential to putting together a rock-solid Disaster Recovery system.

This is part two of a four part series on Disaster Recovery (you can find part one here), where we cover the processes essential to putting together a rock-solid Disaster Recovery system. We will include real world examples as well as tap into our experience building Disaster Recovery systems for businesses ranging from fast growing startups with 24/7 uptime requirements to publicly traded companies with multiple complex, mission critical systems.

In a new four part series, we’ll cover the processes essential to putting together a rock-solid Disaster Recovery system. In this series we’ll cover everything from the types of disasters your business may be at risk for to identifying your critical data to recovery systems. We’ll include real world examples as well as tap into our experience building Disaster Recovery systems for businesses ranging from fast growing startups with 24/7 uptime requirements to large corporations with multiple complex, mission critical systems.

Colocation is the most effective way for a small or mid-sized enterprise to achieve all the robust features and flexibility of an in-house IT department. However, one must be careful to choose a provider who can offer adaptable services with an exceptional quality of service. To ensure that your enterprise will benefit from your investment, explore any colocation option with these important factors in mind:

With the recent announcement that RIPE NCC,  the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia, has distributed its last available blocks of IPv4 address space, plans for making a smooth transition to IPv6 for you and your business have become even more imperative.

Public cloud based services are broadly divided into three broad categories: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Here are some statistics that are the result of UnitedLayer's "best practices" design: