Microsoft has provided a look inside a new data center facility in Redmond, Washington where it is consolidating servers for its research unit and labs. The company says the consolidation, which physically separates Microsoft engineers from the servers running their…
Can you build enough data center redundancy? Most businesses today have little or no tolerance for downtime. The cost of downtime is lost revenues, lost credibility and lost clients. And the first step to avoid data center downtime is to…
Data center power costs are a big part of the IT budget. Doesn’t it make sense to put your data center where power is cheap? A few years ago, it was very costly to consider out-of-town options for your enterprise…
Recently the owner of a small business visited Lifeline Data Centers to talk about using our outsource colocation facilities to house his money-making customer-facing systems. He has had some outages in his main office. Some of the data center downtime…
We are constantly talking to large companies on the east and west coasts about our Midwest colocation facilities. They are interested in using our facilities for one or more of three functions: Enterprise data center – the company is considering…
