IAAS: How we use our own network

01/31/2012 by 1 Comment

While we often promote the ways our customers benefit from using our product, this space provides the ability to share how we, Sunesys, benefit from using our own product. This example comes from the recent move of our virtual servers into the cloud by running them on an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) across our own network.

IAAS is a cloud service that leverages the multi-tenant scalability of virtualization products like VMWare and Citrix. It offers virtual co-location, hardware-on-demand, image level disaster recovery, metered usage, and many features that IT departments simply can’t do on their own. With the IAAS model, your internal IT staff is freed of hardware and facility support, allowing them to focus on business-line applications and the end user experience. Although there are some well known IAAS providers where you can build a virtual server and connect to it over the Internet within minutes, we chose a different route. Read more of this post

Filed under Cloud Computing, Colocation, Data Centers, IAAS, Infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Technology, Telecom

Sunlight, the Sunesys Blog

01/24/2012 by 1 Comment

Welcome to the first edition of Sunlight - a blog on what we at Sunesys feel is going on in the metro telecom industry. Over the next months and throughout the year, Sunlight will try to shed light on the trends in telecommunications in the metro marketplace, whether it be dark fiber, bandwidth services, cloud computing, wireless, wireline, etc.

When we first decided to create a blog, I wasn’t sure what we would write about, and I’m still not sure of all the things we will discuss.  Having spent more years than I care to remember (not due to the business but rather a reflection on my age) in the telecom industry, from the first days in cable TV to the present “cloud”, the one defining thing I can say about our trade is CHANGE!  Every day the communications industry changes and morphs to what is required to meet the demands of a global market.  From applications such as Facebook to cloud computing for commerce, our insatiable demand for bandwidth continues to grow at an astonishing pace. Read more of this post

Filed under Bandwidth, Technology, Telecom, Uncategorized

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