When data center and facility managers meet with the CIO about new equipment, the conversations are rarely easy. The equipment they seek is often expensive, in the six- or seven-figure range, and justifying the expense can be challenging. That was…
Data center management is complex. Whether it’s in-house, at a colocation facility, or multiple locations, it’s challenging to manage applications, operating systems, servers, storage, networking and facilities. Companies are changing their data centers at a record rate. Higher data center…
Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming By: Rich Miller The Google data center in Belgium, which features no chillers and routes traffic to other facilities during hot spells. Raising the temperature in server racks can make a…
Can affordable colocation deliver 99.995% uptime? Does it make financial sense for you to move either your enterprise data center or your disaster recovery center to a colocation facility? And can the result of that move to colocation improve your…
What does data center downtime mean to your business? I just spoke with an organziation that is considering Lifeline Data Centers’ wholesale colocation. The IT group had the chance to find out the impact of data center downtime last week…
