There’s something about the water that keeps attracting data center builders. We were brought in by a VC firm to vet out a project all the way back in 2008 (the idea was sunk not because of the project’s merits but because the financial assumptions of the founders were way off). Google got its patent … Continued
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There is often a great deal of friction in the process of enterprise cloud adoption. For example, business decision-makers often suffer from confusion over key questions about the true cost, risk, and the total economic impact of moving their core applications to the cloud. Assessing and selecting the right cloud migration path, transition approach, operating … Continued
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You want to migrate legacy applications to the cloud, right? To meet the needs of your enterprise, it’s become an imperative. It might sound simple, but you’ve discovered it’s not. Let’s take a look at the keys you need to consider before you pull the trigger. If only application migration was as simple as … Continued
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Scores Will Drive Triple Bottom Line in IT, Data-Center Supplier Choice SANTA MONICA, CALIF. May 16, 2012 – RampRate Sourcing Advisors, the premier sourcing advisor for IT infrastructure and cloud computing, has integrated CSRHub’s corporate-social-responsibility scores into its proprietary SPY Index decision hub, enriching it so that IT decision makers can … Continued
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Peter Gross joins company board of advisors to help address environmental and social responsibility challenges in enterprise data centers and outsourced co-location SANTA MONICA, Calif. – April 24, 2012. RampRate, the premier sourcing advisor for selecting locations and suppliers in IT infrastructure and cloud computing, today announced that data center innovator Peter Gross has agreed … Continued
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Most legacy applications have implicit assumptions about operating systems, hardware, geography, latency, throughput, scalability, governance, access rights, monitoring and other aspects that must be carefully addressed before deploying to the public cloud. by Alex Veytsel, Steve Lerner and Tony Greenberg as published by Microsoft TechNet When faced with the many opportunities afforded by a cloud … Continued
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The key question is cloud service is the right fit for your specific jobs, whether today or in a few years, and what you should do to prepare. by Alex Veytsel, Steve Lerner and Tony Greenberg As published by Microsoft TechNet In the 10+ years that RampRate has advised buyers of IT infrastructure services, few … Continued
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Who’s in the buggy whip business in technology these days? By that, I mean, what companies are about to become obsolete thanks to major shifts in media delivery and consumption caused by the rise, the serious rise, of streaming? More than a dozen years after the launch of the Streaming Media conference, which is now … Continued
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