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What is a data center? And Why Are They So Important??
Many people may have heard the term “data center” but most don’t really know what that means. Nonetheless, these data centers are incredibly important to our everyday way of life. What is a data center? Data centers are these vast, huge, sometimes-sprawling buildings dedicated to holding the back-end computer systems, machinery and associated components needed to help run what we consumers know of as “the internet”. In a way these data centers are “the cloud” that we think of when we say our info is “stored out there…in the cloud”, and these data centers can use as much electricity as a small town. What is colocation? A colocation data center…
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What is “the cloud”? #Cloud #CloudComputing #CloudNetworking
The cloud. Conjures up all kinds of memories of looking toward the sky and gazing at these constantly evolving, ephemeral, floating objects. In the tech world some terms are flexible and can be a bit tricky, or hard to contain to one concrete definition. The “cloud” is a network “out there”. Indeed the very internet itself can be the cloud in some ways. Many consumers quickly warmed up to cloud with the easy adoption of web-based email like “Gmail” which is essentially “email in the cloud”. Instead of being stored on our local machines, we became used to storing our email with Google in their “cloud”. But a “cloud” has…
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What are the Different Types of Computer Networks?
Well, first, what a great question! There are NUMEROUS different types of networks, just speaking of the technical kind specifically! While all computers essentially need DATA to be useful, it is when two (or more!) computers are connected to each other, that they can exchange/share data and thus compounding/magnifying their usefulness. CAN—Campus Area Network LAN—Local Area Network MAN—Metropolitan Area Network WAN-Wide Area Network SD-WAN—Software Defined Wide Area Network
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Protected: What is Equinix? And Why Are They So Important??
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Amazon’s “Sidewalk” Mesh Network Goes Live; All Devices Are Opted-In Automatically By Default
Amazon’s neighborhood mesh network dubbed “Sidewalk” has gone live. Via the New York Times: On June 8, Amazon is set to flip the switch on its new free service called Sidewalk, which will automatically be enabled on many of Amazon’s Echo smart speakers and smart displays, as well as some Ring devices (for more details, see the complete list of compatible devices). Once Sidewalk goes live, compatible devices such as speakers, light bulbs, locks, and sensors will be able to connect anonymously to other Sidewalk devices to borrow a little slice of internet connectivity. That should enable some interesting features down the line as more compatible devices appear. It’s also creating a fair amount of…
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‘Welcome To The Edge!!!’–What Is Edge Computing???
[Note: This is an evolving, continuously updating post for my research purposes to learn more about SASE, or Secure Access Service Edge. First, I’m laying the groundwork for what ‘edge computing’ is.] Edge Computing The term ‘edge’ is all the rage these days. From a infrastructure-centric point of view, “Edge computing is at it’s essence cloud principles applied at the network edge close to the user“[3]. It can include: Virtualization (Compute virtualization, Storage virtualization, Networking virtualization) Resources On Demand API Driven Approach Automated LCM Life-Cycle management Use of Commodity hardware [3] These are some of the powerful core cloud basic principles that make the network edge highly flexible and programmable.…
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What is a ‘NOC’? What is a ‘SOC’? The Battle of ‘NOCs’ vs. ‘SOCs’…
Noc’ing the Soc’s Off You!! First of all, I want to preface this by stating and asking, “Why aren’t NOCs and SOCs the same thing???” Just initially hearing what the acronyms stand for alone, and going based off of that, I would think we would want “Network” and “Security” intertwined and treated with a holistic approach. Similar to how security should be “baked in” to software. NOC–Network Operations Center A NOC is a Network Operations Center (NOC, pronounced like the work ‘knock’), which can also be referred to as a “network management center”. It can be one or more locations from which network monitoring and control (i.e. network management) is…
