Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Triangle NUG meeting about server colocation
This evening I went to the Triangle Novell Users' Group meeting, which for a change was held at Inflow's Data Center in RTP instead of our usual meeting place at Alphanumeric Systems Inc.'s headquarters.
Inflow provides colocation and managed services, server space and engineering to support those servers, data backup services, hosting and business continuity. Currently they do not provide Novell services yet, but are planning to in the near future.
They have had multiple redundant SONET OC3s coming into the building. They have been in this location since 1999. They have 14 data centers in "Tier 2" cities.
Servers are now smaller and produce a LOT more heat than they did a few years ago. They are adding more HVAC capacity to their facilities. IBM "Blade Centers" use an amazing amount of power. A lot of buildings don't have the power capabilities to handle these kinds of machines.
Offers predefined and custom SLAs.
After the presentation we got an extensive tour of the data center.
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Inflow provides colocation and managed services, server space and engineering to support those servers, data backup services, hosting and business continuity. Currently they do not provide Novell services yet, but are planning to in the near future.
They have had multiple redundant SONET OC3s coming into the building. They have been in this location since 1999. They have 14 data centers in "Tier 2" cities.
Servers are now smaller and produce a LOT more heat than they did a few years ago. They are adding more HVAC capacity to their facilities. IBM "Blade Centers" use an amazing amount of power. A lot of buildings don't have the power capabilities to handle these kinds of machines.
Offers predefined and custom SLAs.
After the presentation we got an extensive tour of the data center.
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