Portal Systems

03/11/2026

Data center deployments depend on more than technicians and hardware. The logistics behind the scenes often determine whether a project runs smoothly or stalls.

Servers have to arrive on time, undamaged, and ready to install. Miss a step and the whole project can stall.

Like building with LEGO bricks, every piece has to fit together for the final result to work.

Check out our post: Behind Every Successful Data Center Deployment Is Logistics below.

When people think about technology failures, they usually picture software bugs, network outages, or cloud issues.But many problems start somewhere much simpler. A server that arrived damaged. Hardware that missed a delivery window. Equipment that wasn’t staged correctly before installation.Inside...

02/07/2025

Cabling the Cloud.

01/03/2023

There are several benefits to using a third-party provider for data center smart hands services compared to using the services offered by your data center operator: Cost: Third-party smart hands providers may offer more competitive pricing than data center operators, which can be a significant benef...

12/10/2022

Equinix will add decorative lighting to its DC21 data center in Ashburn's Data Center Alley, using colored LED lights to celebrate holidays. It's a response to critiques that data centers are visually unappealing.

11/12/2022

08/17/2022

To be successful, today's data centers must incorporate colocation as well as public and hybrid cloud models.

11/30/2020

COVID-19 has pushed more businesses to the data center / Cloud. If you need help making the leap, please contact us today.

Data center customers have leased more than 500 megawatts of capacity in 2020, an all-time record.

11/26/2020

Wishing everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving!

09/23/2020

Equinix, the world's largest provider of colocation and interconnection services, provider, is repositioning itself as "the world's digital infrastructure company." It's the latest wrinkle in the language of the data center industry.

04/22/2020

Need Internet redundancy? Portal Systems can help.

Thousand Eyes, which tracks internet and cloud traffic, is providing Network World with weekly updates on the performance of three categories of service provider: ISP, cloud provider, UCaaS