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The “Startup Guys” is a video series from College Humor that lovingly skewers the technology industry. For those of us who have been in the business for a while (or what might seem like a while in Internet Time), “Startup Guys” captures all the craziness of tech entrepreneurship, from the whack company names (Brush FireRead more

Big Data is the buzz phrase of the hour, but behind the hype there are some real and significant changes happening in the way that businesses are dealing with the deluge of data and how the are using it to make decisions. In a recent survey by CapGemini of predominantly C-level executives working in a range of industries,Read more

NEW YORK, NY July 12,  2012—NYI (www.nyi.net), New York’s premier data center provider, has been chosen to provide infrastructure support for Viggle, an app-driven loyalty program for television owned by Viggle Inc., that gives people real rewards for checking into the television shows they’re watching. NYI specializes in colocation, dedicated servers, managed services, cloud computing,Read more

With the recent announcement by CERN of the probable discovery of the Higgs Boson, the Standard Model of quantum physics has been completed. We now understand the basic constituents of the universe and how they interact. The existence of such a particle and its associated field was hypothesized over 40 years ago by British scientistRead more

Personal data will be an increasingly important aspect of many companies’ interactions with their customers and with each other. There are going to be an estimated 1 trillion devices connected to the internet within the next three year, and many of those are going to be mobile devices or part of the Internet of Things.Read more

Alan Turing, mathematician, code-breaker, and computer scientist would have celebrated his 100th birthday on the 23rd June. Turing is in large part responsible for the world we live in today, and we at NYI are certainly aware of how Turing developed ideas and technologies that make our business possible. Turing is most famous among theRead more

At NYI, customized solutions start with customized tools. Net Sensor is one such tool. Developed originally as a dissertation project at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Net Sensor has since evolved into a “general-purpose, modular network-analysis suite for use in research, monitoring, diagnostics, forensics, and statistics-gathering.” Boris Kochergin, Senior System Administrator at NYI, is Net Sensor’sRead more

HTTP is a venerable protocol, but over the last decade, websites have developed in ways that could not have been foreseen by HTTP’s designers.  Various limitations in the HTTP protocol result in latency for end users, which is harmful both for conversion rates on websites and user experience in web applications. SPDY was developed byRead more

Accurate monitoring of the data center environment and precise allocation of resources has long been the holy grail of the data center industry. Until recent years though, the software and hardware tools to provide solid and reliable Data Center Infrastructure Management  (DCIM) were not available. Companies were forced to rely on a mixture of ad-hocRead more

Security is naturally a massive concern for companies that want to take advantage of virtualization solutions without making huge capital investments in infrastructure that is frequently underutilized. In a recent study from Intel, 99 percent of IT professionals asked, said that security is a major factor in considering cloud deployment methods, with 44 percent callingRead more