Decrease Datacenter/Supplier Lock-in When suppliers fail, your business does too… Maintain the flexibility and control you need to take care of your customers. It is quite possible that you have the perfect relationship with your datacenter/hosting/server/infrastructure provider. They value you as a customer and will do anything to ensure your happiness. They treat you well […]
We do not have any specific network or datacenter maintenance windows. Avoiding downtime on our global Cloud Platform is our highest priority, so we always make every effort to perform maintenance in such a way as to prevent customer impact. That’s why you rarely receive datacenter maintenance notifications from us. In most cases, we can […]
Our star developers spent the last couple months working hard to knock out a couple annoying bugs and adding new features. This is a fairly significant platform update that also improves platform reliability and stability too. We hope you like it! New Webhook Feature: We added an often requested feature called HTTP Webhooks that allows […]
Periodically we talk to someone who says something along the lines of: “we don’t need Total Uptime since we moved to the cloud.” A most interesting statement that is simply the result of someone misinformed about the benefits and capabilities of cloud. Does the cloud provide incredible flexibility? Yes! Does it let you provision services […]
A Mass Migration is Happening A few years ago, Gartner predicted that more than $1 trillion in IT spending would be directly impacted by the shift to cloud and that 25% of all software spending would shift to the cloud. They stated that by 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a […]
Abstract The only constant in information technology is change. Technical pioneers continue to come up with new ways of doing things. The latest developments in IT infrastructure, as demonstrated in industry studies, include an increased adoption of hybrid cloud computing. With that trend comes a greater need to find ways to control a widely distributed […]
In a previous article about Uptime Institute, we talked about the different types of certification a company can obtain. Achieving tier certification from Uptime Institute can cost a lot of time and money, but it can be pretty important. According to Colocation America Corporation, “If you’re in the data center business and not familiar with […]
If you’ve ever made an in-person visit to your well-protected server or other device in a colocation facility or data center, then you know firsthand about security. The hand scanners, the thumbprint readers, the man-traps, the security guards, the metal cages — all the security features that make data centers feel like a secure prison. […]