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.

CIO Strategy: Why the simplicity of wholesale colocation may be your best choice – Part 2

Lifeline Data Centers Heat Exchanger

In Part 1 of this article, I talked about your organization’s need for high computer system reliability, also known as data center uptime. I talked about the emerging standard of of 99.995% uptime, which translates to 28 minutes of downtime…

CIO Strategy: Why the simplicity of wholesale colocation may be your best choice – Part 1

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Data center uptime has become the one of the most important quality metrics for today’s successful enterprise. More organizations depend on their computer systems to: sell their products and services online via e-commerce deliver core services manufacture products manage logistics…

Chicago Disaster Recovery? Indianapolis May Be Your Best Choice

Data Center Power Compartmentalization

Many Chicago area companies protect their mission critical computer systems by implementing an off-site disaster recovery center. This disaster recovery data center is often an outsource computer room facility with rack space or private cages. Companies build a second computer…