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.

The Future is Flash

Lifeline Data Centers

Flash Memory has transformed the data center industry and it will continue to do so. 2013 saw an entire change of scenery in the information technology arena with previously unheard words such as Hadoop, Big Data, Twitter, ExaBytes and PetaBytes becoming…

Standards for the Telecommunication Industry: TIA-942 vs. the Uptime Institute Tiers

Data Center Power Compartmentalization

Reliability and uptime are critical requirements for the telecommunication industry, and implementation of standards is a way to ensure both. TIA-942, or TIA-942-A, lays down standards for cabling systems and network design when planning and designing data centers. It covers…