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Data Center Knowledge posted an interesting piece yesterday about how New Jersey is a perfect market to support the growth of data centers. Among the factors driving growth cited was location, which has historically made it a favorite destination for financial services firms and enterprise companies. Other historic drivers included more plentiful and less expensiveRead more

  The 2012 Olympics in London are going to be one of the most data and network intensive events in history. Much has changed in the four years since the last Olympics, and in addition to coping with the demands of the media, London’s infrastructure is going to be put under heavy load by theRead more

Back in the day, when the Internet was a novelty and a 28K modem was the height of technical sophistication, movies tended to visualize the net as a 3-dimensional CGI landscape of shimmering buildings and lambent roads — the literal representation of the clichéd information superhighway. All a stark contrast to the dour network mapsRead more

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