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.

Colocation Hosting: Pros and Cons

Data Center Power Compartmentalization

Placing your own server equipment in someone else’s rack, instead of storing it at your business is called Colocation Hosting. This offsite rented data center colocation centers help small businesses to share the vast server sites of large corporations. This…

Managed Versus Unmanaged Colocation

Lifeline Data Centers

Once you have decided to go for colocation hosting for your web servers, you need to choose between two options. Either you can physically take your ready-to-deploy machine to the colocation provider’s location and use their rack to install it,…