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Consider how much data you use in your daily life. The average cellphone plan offers users a few gigabytes a month to do with as they please; you can search the Internet, stream movies and TV shows online, and even pay bills. Now, imagine you're a growing business with hundreds or thousands of customers relying on your services. The amount of data required to meet their needs is going to be significantly more than your basic office building or startup location can churn out -- in fact, the average power density of a single data center is 100 times more than that of a large commercial office building. Businesses in this data-hungry day and age are desperate for speed, storage, and smooth connectivity, but what about the future? According to an article posted on DataCenterKnowledge.com...

The world-wide network responsible for transporting packages and daily mail is nothing short of amazing. On any given day, UPS alone handles about 15.8 million packages. However, during the holiday season, that number skyrockets as online gift-buying reaches its annual peak. With a rise in package delivery comes a corresponding rise in doorstep thefts. Dubbed "porch pirates," petty thieves all over the U.S. simply walk up to neighbor's front steps and swipe the neatly-wrapped parcels left by the postman. Though rather comic, every year porch pirates cause some serious damage. In fact, 26 million Americans say they've had a package stolen from their step during the holidays. If you've had a package stolen recently, or if you want to preemptively protect your holiday gifting plan...

Manufactured housing may be the solution to Phoenix, AZ's affordable housing problem. According to AZ Central, factory-built houses have become more popular and prevalent in Phoenix than in any other metro area in Arizona. Phoenix is home to approximately 85,000 manufactured houses. In recent years, mobile homes have grown in popularity because of their affordability compared to other housing options. In fact, a movement is currently underway in Phoenix to increase the number of manufactured homes in existing neighborhoods and new communities. A conference was recently put together by Mark Stapp, a real-estate analyst and director of the master of real estate development program at Arizona University, and the Arizona Department of Housing. The Arizona Department of Real Estate was also ...

Email is far from dead, folks. Businesses ranging from large to local all benefit from having an email system in place. For a small business, setting up an official email is a great way to keep all important business matters and inquiries in one convenient place. It's a little alarming, but about 97% of the 60 billion emails sent each day are considered spam. These spam messages may have been written intending harm for the receivers, or they may just be 'junk mail'. Email hosts nowadays have decent spam filters in place to comb through your incoming mail, but malicious messages can still slip through. Recognizing a Malicious Email They notify you of an order you never made, e.g. via PayPal or Amazon, and offer a link to cancel it. The email asks you to reply with personal info such as...

Did you visit a Starbucks location during the afternoon of Tuesday, May 29? If you did, you probably found yourself locked out of the building and unable to get your daily venti caramel iced coffee with skim milk. About 90% of U.S. households regularly indulge in a sweet, frozen treat. If your regular frozen treat is a Frappuccino and you weren't able to get it last week, there is a reason. The reason why your Starbucks was closed, along with so many other locations throughout the country, was to host a racial bias education day. According to Time about 175,000 participated in the diversity training. This moment comes after a high-profile incident occurred in April in a Philadelphia Starbucks. The incident involved a white store manager calling the police on two black men who were si...