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.
  • Joined: July 11, 2010
  • Articles: 971

What to Do When You Need to Expand Your Current Data Center?

Data Center Power Compartmentalization Whitepaper

What can you do when you need to expand your current data center? Consider this real life scenario that took place recently. MIT launched edX, an online education portal and estimated that approximately 5,000 users would sign on. The actual…

How does your Data Center grow?

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How does your data center grow? And what is the likelihood? If you know you’re going to need more floor space, power and cooling because of changes in your data center, what do you do? Or, if you have an…

All You Need to Know About Tier Classification

Lifeline Data Centers Heat Exchanger

Most every data center request for proposal or list of services will have technical terms like uptime and tier classification that can confuse a business. Here is a precise explanation of these terms so that you can make better and…

Why TIA-942 Compliant Data Centers Provide 99.995% Uptime

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What is a TIA-942 compliant data center? The TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association) develops consensus-based standards for the information and communications industry that are recognized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Today’s competitive data center market requires a standard for data center…