The stuff you can’t (or won’t) build into your data center could be the cause of a future outage. What stuff am I talking about? Data center power redundancy – dual utility power feeds, dual generators, and dual UPS systems…
As data center and hosting companies transition to a cloud computing model, we’ve been tracking the economics of cloud business models for providers. Cloud computing may be the most economic way for end users to deploy IT capacity. But what…
Is the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric the best way to measure data center efficiency? I’m not the first one to ask that question, and I probably won’t be the last. However, it does seem that IT executives are growing…
We’re hearing more stories and seeing more companies move their infrastructure out of a virtual environment and back into a physical environment using high-reliability outsourced data centers. Why are these companies making the switch? Long-term costs. Virtual environments often charge…
Zero downtime data centers? Expensive, and often cost prohibitive. Read on about outages that affect Google. Everyone is susceptible to data center downtime. t’s been a rough couple of days for uptime at the world’s most popular sites. This morning…
