There is a growing trend in our prospects and customer base; do-it-yourself disaster recovery center. This DIY approach comes from a number of factors: Companies are tired of paying for expensive all-encompassing contracts that don’t match up well with their…
Are you evaluating how affordable colocation could be for your company? If so, you’ve probably considered the benefits of using colocation: hardened data center facilities to protect against natural and man-made disasters telecommunications choices, especially in carrier neutral data centers…
What does downtime cost your company? Have you assigned a hard dollar cost an hour of data center downtime? Is the loss of credibility with your prospects and customers more expensive than the hard dollars associated with an outage? There…
I’ve been working on a request for proposal (RFP) for a brand new enterprise data center this week. The company’s lease on their existing data center is ready to expire. This normally wouldn’t cause a need to look for a…
Many companies use the Uptime Institute tiering system when planning to build or lease enterprise data center space. Companies ask vendors if they are a tier III or higher data center. What these companies are often concerned with is the…
