Virtualisation has really been a game changer. One surprise of virtualisation I have seen is that 10 physical servers can easily turning into over twenty virtual machines. How is this possible I here you ask. Well the company in question had started with one server. A exchange 2003 server and a domain controller. They had ...

  I have personally reviewed about 10 data centres in Sydney Australia and London UK. If you are looking for co-location. This is to say your equipment in a 3rd parties premises. You don’t really have too hard a job to compare. Obviously the sales people and actually location will probably be the biggest or ...

  I once worked for a big telecoms company that are no more. We moved to a new office and had a new server room built. The racks didn’t go next to one another but in two separate rows. Not sure what went wrong but we ended up getting 6 metre patch leads and throwing ...

  one company I started to worked for had a BT MPLS half installed at 4 sites at a cost of 70k UKP per year. That one took a fair bit of working to get configured mainly giving all servers information of where the other servers were located. To get internet to break out of ...