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NYI’s Phillip Koblence was interviewed Thursday by RTL Dutch TV about how datacenters power the Internet. Among the topics discussed were the role of datacenters in highly concentrated urban areas like NYC and why financial services in particular choose NYI for its proximity to all the major markets and exchanges. We’re told that the pieceRead more

A recent piece in Ephemeral New York finds that incline along William Street in the Financial District is not only the best place in Manhattan to build a datacenter, it’s also the probable location of Golden Hill, a Revolutionary-era enclave which was the site of the first bloody conflict of the Revolutionary War. The conflictRead more

NJBIZ has named NYI “Emerging Business of the Year” for 2012. The announcement was made recently at a special awards gala at The Palace at Somerset Park, attended by 300 New Jersey business leaders and NJBIZ staff and sponsored by EisnerAmper, Sun National Bank, K&L Gates, Cigna, Caliper. NYI, a specialty provider of colocation, dedicatedRead more

TS-Associates (www.ts-a.com), a leading supplier of Precision Instrumentation solutions for latency sensitive trading systems, has selected NYI (www.nyi.net), a New York City based mission critical data services provider, to host reference implementations of the complete range of TS-Associates Precision Instrumentation solutions, including TipOff®, Correlix and Application Tap®. This announcement comes at an important juncture: TS-Associates’Read more

The New York Times reports that European governments are taking a pass on the Cloud, for now. Their concern is the data mining practices of Google, Microsoft and other providers. Of course, eager to make a deal, Google, etc. have made assurances that private data would not be shared. Unfortunately, however, it appears the damageRead more

This Thanksgiving is particularly special. The reason is that we have even more to be grateful for this year. We’ve been through a great deal, especially in the past month, but thanks to the dedication of our staff, many of whom sacrificed time with their families, we were able to maintain the level of excellenceRead more

  NYI experienced no outages or compromise in service during Hurricane Sandy. Our customers, as a way of expressing their gratitude, took a few moments to send us some very encouraging words, which we’d like to share with you: “…a huge thanks to you and your team for keeping us up during the blackout!” –Read more

Artificial intelligence is one of those terms that has experienced a degree of semantic slippage over the years. Originally, it referred to a machine that had an intelligence that the average person on the street would recognize as intelligent. In time, the various parts that would go to make up such a system: expert systems,Read more

In previous articles, we’ve often discussed decision making in business, and our emphasis has been on how data and analytics help human beings to make decisions. In many areas of decision making, having a human in the loop is detrimental. Humans are expensive and slow, especially when it comes to inputting, sharing, and processing largeRead more

Last week, NYI welcomed New Jersey’s hottest IT, Telecom and Mobile startups as part of New Jersey Tech Council’s sixth-annual Innovation Competition. The event took place Thursday, Oct. 4 at NYI Bridgewater, NYI’s 40,000 square foot facility in Bridgewater, New Jersey, approximately 40 miles from New York City. As in previous years, the event attractedRead more