Backup Disaster Recovery Solutions for Smart Cities

Roughly 2.3 billion connected devices exist in smart cities like Tokyo, London, and New York, a whopping 42 percent increase from last year. Therefore, disaster recovery solutions are critical. For bolstering economic growth and enhancing the quality of life, companies must have a viable IT disaster...

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ALGORITHMS: SCARY SMART AND SOMETIMES JUST PLAIN SCARY

Algorithms, complex mathematical equations designed to solve problems or perform a task, automate much of the technology that makes smart cities smart, from intelligent public transportation and traffic management to smart electrical grids and water usage. Algorithms are also a fundamental tool in...

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FRAILTY, THY NAME IS DATA! – MASTERING DISASTER RECOVERY

Mastering Disaster From a busted pipe to a fire, your data is vulnerable during a disaster. This is a serious problem, considering that half of businesses that lose data for 10 days or more end up filing for bankruptcy within 6 months. You can avoid this issue by having a data center disaster...

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WREAKING HAVOC: DDOS ATTACKS ARE GROWING MORE FREQUENT, SOPHISTICATED AND COSTLY

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, which do not discriminate, have been used to target financial services, healthcare, technology, media and entertainment, software, gaming and a host of other industry sectors. According to Neustar’s Worldwide DDoS Attacks and Protection Report, 73 percent...

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NYSCIO 2017: KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM NYSERNET’S 16TH ANNUAL EVENT

NYSERNet’s NYSCIO 2017 conference explores IT trends within higher education institutions As discussed in our recent blog, The Impact of Technology on Higher Education, technological innovation is making an enormous impact on the higher education system as an increasing number of institutions utilize...

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GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT: INTERNET AND DATA CENTER GROWTH IN RUSSIA

Multinationals Seeking a Commercial Presence in Russia Push the Market Forward With nearly 74 million users, Russia is Europe’s largest internet market. Given that figure, the metrics surrounding Russia’s data center industry are somewhat ambiguous. Consider that the country’s commercial data...

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THE “NEW” NEW YORK

How New York Is Evolving Into a World-Class Smart City Simon Sylvester-Chaudhuri is a Managing Partner at Global Fortunes Group, spearheading various products and programs that drive urban innovation. As an advocate for technological innovation around the world, Simon is passionate about smart city development on a global scale and has worked with multiple world-class cities throughout Europe and...

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Telehouse Green: How Green Is My Cloud?

UNDERSTANDING THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF CLOUD-BASED COMPUTING Forrester estimates that worldwide spending on Public Cloud computing services will grow to $160 billion in 2020, a 22 percent annual growth rate from just five years ago. And it’s not just Public Cloud that is experiencing a spike, but...

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Telehouse for Technophiles: Can Your Data Center Survive the Next Big Earthquake?

A Look at Disaster Preparedness in Los Angeles-Based Data Centers The ground shook violently, car alarms shrieked and retail boutique windows shattered across the busy sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard. On January 17, 1994, a 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck just 20 miles west of Los Angeles, producing...

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Disaster Recovery Solutions and Colocation Facilities Are Critical to Protecting the Data of Smart Cities

According to Gartner, the technology research and advisory firm, this year, an estimated 2.3 billion connected things will be used in smart cities, which includes major metro areas such as New York, London and Tokyo. That projection represents a 42 percent increase in the number of connected devices...

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Telehouse Global: The Impact of Technology on Higher Education

BUILDING A SAFER, SMARTER AND MORE CONNECTED WORLD, ONE CAMPUS AT A TIME Higher education directly affects social mobility and economic development on a global scale. For this reason, innovative technologies enabled by advanced colocation services are being developed to make higher education...

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TELEHOUSE TUTELAGE: EDGE COMPUTING IN THE ERA OF IOE

Micro Data Centers and Colocation Providers Will Enable a Future of Ubiquitous Connectivity Driverless cars, drone-powered product delivery, and remotely monitored, environmentally controlled doghouses are but a few examples of the wondrous Internet of Everything. For the uninitiated, the Internet...

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TELEHOUSE GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT: OTT VIEWERSHIP IS FAST BECOMING OVER THE TOP

Colocation Provides a Solution to OTT Performance Over-the-Top (OTT), in telecom parlance, refers to an app or service that delivers content such as streaming video and audio over the internet rather than traditional cable or satellite distribution. According to the 2017 OTT Video Services Study...

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SMART CITIES: ENABLING A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE

Defining the Phenomenon Sweeping the World’s Major Metropolitan Areas Toward the end of the last decade, the number of humans inhabiting the Earth crossed the seven billion mark, with the majority of people living in metropolitan areas. According to the World Health Organization, urban residents...

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Strong Economy and Strict Privacy Laws Make Frankfurt a Global Epicenter for Colocation

After the Second World War, Frankfurt am Main was rebuilt and soon emerged as a leading financial and commercial hub in West Germany. The city experienced strong economic development due to its central position on the Main River and its expansion into neighboring domestic markets. Fast-forward...

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TELELHOUSE TUTELAGE: PEERING 101

Understanding Network Interconnectivity Peering, simply defined, is the interconnection of two different networks, allowing them to directly exchange traffic between one another, and organizations to reach each other’s customers. Public peering is performed across a shared network and relies upon...

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TELEHOUSE GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT: SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING AND THE DATA CENTER

Enhancing Connectivity for the Globalized Economy As enterprises both large and small become increasingly globalized, expanding their businesses across cities, countries and even continents, their networks must grow with them. Software-Defined Networking addresses the fact that the static architecture...

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TELEHOUSE FOR TECHNOPHILES: THE LINK BETWEEN CLOUD ADOPTION AND CONNECTIVITY

How Surging Cloud Use is Making Connectivity a Differentiator for Data Centers It’s safe to say that the global tech forecast is cloudy, and getting cloudier. Consider this: According to the Cisco Global Cloud Index, global IP traffic will account for more than 92 percent of total global data...

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TELEHOUSE, THE HUMAN ELEMENT: A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

Interview with Akihiko Yamaguchi, EVP and CMO of KDDI America and COO of Telehouse America Aki Yamaguchi is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of KDDI America and Chief Operating Officer of Telehouse America. We recently had the opportunity to interview Mr. Yamaguchi and discuss...

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TELEHOUSE GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT: TOKYO, THE HEART OF JAPAN’S DIGITAL AWAKENING

Driven by Global Enterprises, Tokyo Has Become Asia’s Largest Colocation Market The telecommunications market of Japan is among the largest, most profitable and most advanced in the world. While Japan was initially slow to introduce the internet and broadband access, today the country has more...

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TELEHOUSE GREEN: INNOVATION THROUGH COLLABORATION

How the Open Compute Project Is Transforming Data Center Infrastructure and Hardware As Albert Einstein once stated, “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” In the data center and colocation industry, where copious amounts of energy used to power critical...

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TELEHOUSE PREPARES FOR TUESDAY WINTER STORM, STELLA 3/14/2017

Please be advised: Telehouse Facilities Department has been actively tracking the Nor’easter Stella and is taking precautionary measures to mitigate the risk of the storm predicted to hit New York and the New England area Monday evening into Tuesday evening. Staten Island’s 7 Teleport and Chelsea 85 10th Avenue both have been notified of the potential blizzard conditions and will be maintaining...

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TELEHOUSE FOR TECHNOPHILES: THE BRAIN IN THE MACHINE

How Data Centers Are Using Deep Learning Machine and deep learning, which emerged from Artificial Intelligence (AI), the theory and development of computer systems that can perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, mimics activities in layers of neurons in the neocortex, the area of the...

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