If your company is considering outsourcing your data center facilities, you’re probably looking at multiple colocation providers as candidates. Do the colocation providers’ pricing models make sense? Is it possible to find an incremental pay-as-you grow model for your space,…
The cold temperatures in Lulea, Sweden make it easy for the local community to greet the new Facebook data center with this huge ice sculpture of the “Like” symbol. But it’s not as welcoming for servers and IT equipment. It’s…
Data centers can be pictured as the ‘heart’ and Information Storage as the ‘arteries’ of present day businesses. A clogged information artery can, at any time, cause a heart attack for your company. Sincere attempts to avert such situations in…
Surveys show that reporting of disasters by top companies are on the decline. The figure has fallen to around 14% in terms of the number of companies reporting at least one instance of initiating recovery mechanism in the last one…
Big Data isn’t going away. In fact, existing data will grow 50 times the current volume by 2020, according to industry estimates. That means businesses will remain heavily dependent on data centers, according to a recent survey from the Uptime…
