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.

What Drives Data Center Complexity Part 2

Alex Carroll and Rich Banta from Lifeline Data Centers

Data centers worldwide have not been without their fair share of complexities. Many companies rush to virtualization strategies to counter data center complexities, but they do not see what exactly turns out to be the primary driver of complexity in…

To Tape or Not to Tape? The Biggest Data Center Storage Question

Lifeline Data Centers

Modern data centers are being faced with challenging questions around the future of the tape drive. Yes, it is traditional and most backups today are being stored directly on the disk, but is it ready to be discarded from the data…