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 Do You Do When Your Servers Start Aging?

Lifeline Data Centers Heat Exchanger

Dealing with aging servers is a nightmare for any data center manager. The changes in hardware technology and the increasing demand in computing power puts the average lifespan of a production server to a maximum of three years. Upgrading the…

Support Automation in Next Generation Data Centers

Data Center Power Compartmentalization

The data center industry is going through a lot of changes, with clients demanding more sophisticated features at zero downtime. In this tough competitive environment, it becomes important to leave no stone unturned to ensure 100% customer satisfaction. One of…

Security as a Priority in the Data Center Industry

Alex Carroll and Rich Banta from Lifeline Data Centers

Despite the fact that studies show a flat spending rate for IT in the coming years, one particular area is experiencing a growing trend of investment: data centers. As modern day IT’s most prominent infrastructure component, data centers do not…