Alex Carroll

Alex Carroll

Alex, co-owner, is responsible for all real estate, construction and mission critical facilities: hardened buildings, power systems, cooling systems, fire suppression, and environmentals. Alex also manages relationships with the telecommunications providers and has an extensive background in IT infrastructure support, database administration and software design and development. Alex architected Lifeline’s proprietary GRCA system and is hands-on every day in the data center.

How do you pick the right wholesale colocation vendor?

Lifeline Data Centers Eastgate Mall

How do you pick the right wholesale colocation vendor? First, consider your strengths as a business. In what markets do you operate? How have you been successful? Where is your talent? What products and services net you the most profit?…

Arthur Cole: An IT Feeding Frenzy?

Alex Carroll and Rich Banta from Lifeline Data Centers

There’s chum in the financial waters and the sharks are circling. Could it be that the tech industry is on the verge of a feeding frenzy that would make the past year or so look tame by comparison? It seems…

Outsource data center pricing models – is simple better?

Lifeline Data Centers

Outsource data center pricing models vary. Companies who use outsource data center (colocation) facilities often have multiple line items on monthly invoices that include charges for racks, floor space, power utilization, port charges, cross-connect fees, circuit sizes, redundant power feeds,…