CenturyLink acquiring Qwest is surprising news for the IT and Telecom Industries. For the longest time, I thought Sprint would be a good fit to merge with Qwest but I guess I was wrong!
CentruyLink surprised us all last year when they acquired Embarq, and now Qwest? Although it eliminates consumer choices in some areas, it also makes a strong statement about a smaller company taking over one of the larger conglomerates, a statement that I personally like! (more…)
As the 2009 hurricane season draws to a close we can all let out a huge sigh of relief. For some, that sigh will be larger than others if they weren’t prepared. Atlantic.Net is always ready to weather the storm and we take pride that we are constantly thinking into the future. Some of our preparations for this hurricane season included putting a new roof on our building, performing an entire overhaul of our industrial grade UPS-complete with new components, and performing preventative maintenance on our HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning). As always, our secure, hurricane proof Data Center is staffed 24×7x365 with a back-up generator and multiple redundant connections to the Internet backbone. (more…)
Server Colocation is a popular practice among small, medium, and large sized businesses to house their mission critical data and data network equipment in a data center environment. Many companies decide to colocate for various reasons like network up-time and to avoid high cost of in house storage and bandwidth. Colocation can be beneficial to businesses that have already put out the upfront expense of creating their network and server infrastructure.
Moreover, Colocation data centers are highly popular for business that already staff their IT departments. With colocation, companies are able to not only lease space in climate and humidity controlled environment with ample power and bandwidth, but they are also able to set up redundancy which otherwise may not be available in-house. (more…)
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