data centers

Microsoft Close To Glass Storage Breakthrough That Could Thwart Ransomware Attacks In Data Centers

SEATTLE - Microsoft has released a paper for the widely-anticipated glass-based storage technology it's backing to replace the conventional technology that's fitted into the best hard drives and best SSDs out there today. The 16-page academic paper, presented at the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, outlines the principles behind the company's plans to build a longlasting and highly efficient storage systems. Made

By |2023-12-09T13:27:48-05:00December 9th, 2023|Cyber Defense, Featured|

Getting Started with Edge Data Centers: A Simple Overview

Every piece of hardware and software out there craves timely data, and any delay is a wasted opportunity. To solve this problem, we use edge data centers. These decentralized nodes are the digital age's unsung heroes, toiling away in the background to bring data closer to consumers and gadgets. By 2025, it's expected that 75%

By |2023-04-19T10:52:34-04:00April 18th, 2023|Guest Columns|

Internet Outages Could Spread As Temperatures Rise

SAN FRANCISCO - Climate change is hitting us at an ever faster pace. 2022 is expected to be the sixth-hottest year on record as average temperatures reached 1.57 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average. We're on track to normalize that temperature gain every year, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted last year, and it

By |2022-11-18T17:41:58-05:00November 18th, 2022|Clean Update, Climate Change|

Self-Driving Vehicles Could Overwhelm Current Data Center Capacity

DENVER - Auto manufacturers are making unprecedented investments in electric vehicles in response to consumer demand and climate trends. Those investments are laying the groundwork for more self-driving or autonomous vehicles, as EV market growth is an important leading indicator for self-driving technology. Widespread adoption of self-driving EVs faces several significant barriers including social acceptance,

By |2022-02-22T08:56:09-05:00February 21st, 2022|IoT|

Data Centers Opposing Switch Tax Bill

LANSING - A bill sitting in the House Commerce and Tourism Committee that would exempt data center Switch from additional property taxes is facing opposition from the other data centers in Michigan. The Michigan Data Center Alliance, a coalition of nine Michigan-based companies operating 38 data centers and employing 1,000 residents, said this week it

By |2019-10-13T17:36:32-04:00October 13th, 2019|Government/Politics, Politics, Politics/Government|

US Signal Offers Enhanced Disaster Recover As A Service

GRAND RAPIDS - US Signal has enhanced its disaster recovery as a service offering to include two service tiers: standard and premium. With both tiers, a customer’s primary production environment is continuously replicated to a US Signal cloud environment or between multiple US Signal data centers. When needed, a replicated instance of the environment can

By |2017-09-28T18:47:22-04:00September 28th, 2017|Cyber Defense|

Online Tech Buys Kansas City Cloud Computing Provider To Expand Into Missouri

ROYAL OAK - Online Tech CEO Yan Ness announces his company’s acquisition of Echo Cloud, a Kansas City, Mo., enterprise cloud company. The acquisition is set to boost Online Tech’s reach in the Midwest market and provide further geographical diversity to its growing cloud infrastructure. Ness said the acquisition provides several benefits for his company,

By |2017-04-25T18:46:24-04:00April 25th, 2017|M2 TechCast, Podcasts|

Online Tech Acquires Echo Cloud To Enter Kansas City Market

ANN ARBOR - Online Tech, a leading provider of secure, compliant hybrid cloud services, has acquired Echo Cloud, a Kansas City, Mo., based enterprise cloud company. The acquisition is set to boost Online Tech’s reach in the Midwest market and provide further geographical diversity to its growing cloud infrastructure. Yan Ness, CEO of Online Tech,

By |2017-04-20T16:34:33-04:00April 20th, 2017|Featured, News|

Windstream To Provide Optical Wave Service To ManagedWay Data Centers

TROY - Windstream will provide optical Wave services to ManagedWay, connecting select data centers in the Metro Detroit market. ManagedWay, a provider of cloud, data center, Internet, transport and IT managed services to business organizations, recently announced the opening of its 45,000-square-foot data center in Troy. With the addition of Windstream’s highly available optical Wave

By |2016-10-16T18:04:22-04:00October 16th, 2016|New Products / Contracts|

Trivalent Group Expands Its Managed Services Footprint To Greater Lansing

EAST LANSING - Managed services provider Trivalent Group, already a major player on the West side of Michigan, added central Michigan to its footprint on Wednesday when President and CEO Larry Andrus announced the acquisition of KI Technology Group. Terms were not announced. But Andrus said the acquisition of the East Lansing managed services company,

By |2016-04-21T11:06:49-04:00April 21st, 2016|Cyber Defense, News|