Managing Infrastructures in IT

Weedle Goes Live

We’re delighted to see that one of our customers, Weedle , went live last night at a launch event in Dublin. Weedle provides a social network where you can advertise your skills or find someone with a particular skillset Weedle helps you get found by people who need your skill. It’s more than just simple recruitment; if you’re a tree surgeon then you can let people know of your availability. If you’re looking for a plumber you can find one on Weedle. Weedle connects people with people.

More Backup Storage Added Without Downtime

One of the great things I like about our backup infrastructure is how we can add extra storage without the need of shutting down the service. It can be scaled to what we need and when we need it without interrupting any of our customer’s backups.

EuroCloud formally opens for business across Europe

Europe’s first ever SaaS and cloud services organisation now operating in 16 countries plans to be present in 25 European countries by the end of 2010. read more

Information Is Everything

Some of the things Software-as-a-Service developers are rightly worried about are uptime and performance. “How will my system perform when I deploy it?” “What will happen during peak periods?” “How will my system scale?”

Without the right tools we cannot manage performance or uptime. We need information to make the right decisions and then to check if those decisions were indeed right after all. read more

C Infinity Launches New Private Cloud Platform

We are proud to announce that we have successfully upgraded our virtualisation and management platform that are key components to our Private Cloud dedicated server hosting service.

We run an Infrastructure-as-a-Service based in an Irish owned and located data centre, the number two data centre in Europe. This provides solution developers and organisations to build a Software-as-a-Service solution on an existing private cloud infrastructure in Ireland that is secure, fault tolerant and extremely reliable. read more

Watching The Apprentice This Week

I was watching this week’s episode of TV’s “The Apprentice” with great interest this week because one of our partners, The Big Red Book, was being featured. In the show, the candidates for the job were split into two teams and asked to develop and propose a press marketing plan for the Big Red Book.

Fault Tolerance & Hardware Support In Action

When we talk about hardware support contracts with the manufacturer we are being very serious. When we were planning our infrastructure we decided to do something unusual in the server hosting business; we decided to purchase hardware support contracts for all of our hardware to give us 4 hour on site responses by the manufacturer.

Microsoft TechNet Ireland Survey Shows Cuts In IT Budgets

Microsoft TechNet Ireland recently ran a survey to identify trends in Irish
Trends. Some of these were posted in an article by Silicon Republic. 62% of Irish IT professionals say that their IT budgets are being cut. At the same time 76% of them say that the business is relying on IT to find ways to make the organisation find ways to be more efficient.
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Managed Server Hosting Availability Reports

We’ve been talking a lot about SLA’s (Service Level Agreements) in the hosting industry at work lately. As a hosting company, like any other company, you’re dependant on many things:

Power and Cooling: Our data centre provides and lives up to their 100% SLA with a dedicated substation and dual diesel generators. No outages since 2001 is a nice way to live up to a promise!
Internet connectivity: Again, we’re looking at a 100% SLA from our suppliers. That’s an enviable position; something you don’t get with a DSL or ordinary leased line. We monitor that closely and there’s been no outages yet.
Server Uptime: This one completely depends on manufacturer reliability, clustering, etc.