Colocation Centers, Good or Bad?

     Is it good to use a co-location site for the storage of servers and other business systems or is it better to manage the systems within the company and to keep them on-site? There are benefits to both and there are also issues which each plan of action. For keeping servers on-site there are costs to keep the lab running and operational. Most companies will have to pay someone to control the server room and manage all issues that come with managing a server room. There is also the ability for the servers to be accessed more quickly when they are onsite than when they are in an off-site co-location facility. With an off-site co-location storage there is also the payment to reserve the rack space which will cost about 800-1000 dollars a month. While if it is necessary for a company to get have space and they are not able to expand their current server room then this is a viable opportunity but I would not say that this is an ideal solution or an answer to this problem. There is also the risk that the security of the servers is not able to be secured by the company as well and rely on the co-location company to manage the security of the facility.

The Risk of Premature Updates

     Have you ever upgraded a mobile device just to find that there was a larger issue with the newest version that what you were trying to upgrade away from? It seems like in the recent few weeks there have been many issues with upgrading devices, uncovering more problems with the devices than there previously were. It seems like on a weekly basis there are updates and new features  released to fix previous versions that were released only a few weeks before.
     With all of these problems it is getting to the point that I do not want to upgrade my devices immediately anymore. There will always be problems with updating a devices to a newer major release version, but it seems like that issue is amplified many times over when upgrading from one version to another recently. With issues and bugs like these it makes it more difficult to stay at the leading edge of technology. There are constantly issues which need to be worked through and respond to which take time for developers to fix and release to the public. Many people are now recommending the public to wait until the first service pack has been released to adopt the newest technology because many of the major issues with the device have been repaired and work better than they did when the device was first released. The first service pack release is a major increase in the functionality of the devices and the security which has been implemented into the device. This is why many people have begun to say that it is better to wait until fixes have been released to help mediate the zero day issues with a product.