Category Archive for : ‘F5 Tornado Resistant Data Center’

INDIANAPOLIS, IN–(Marketwire – Oct 29, 2012) – Indianapolis-based colocation provider Lifeline Data Centers ( https://lifelinedatacenters.com ) is expanding. Due to significant demand, Lifeline today announced that the second phase of construction at Lifeline’s Eastgate data center on Indianapolis’ east side has begun. This expansion will add another 40,000 feet of data center facilities to the existing 50,000 feet of data center already at the 41-acre Eastgate campus. Together with Lifeline’s Henry Street facility, the second phase will brings Lifeline’s total data center space to 120,000 square feet — the largest

Hurricanes, floods, hackers or any other natural or man-made disruptions can pose a threat to your data centers with little or no warning at all. According to International Data Corp, a business loses an average of $84,000 for every hour of downtime. Therefore, having a solid Disaster Recovery plan is no longer a choice – unless you want to start over from scratch.

Most organizations today have a secondary data center or external wholesale colocation backup facilities, but having a planned Disaster Recovery colocation blueprint is critical to assess the vulnerabilities

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 uptime?

The answer is: do the math. You need to do the research necessary to determine if moving to an outsourced data center can be both affordable and deliver high uptime.

First, consider the uptime in your current data center. How many power feeds come into your building from the utility? How

Data center management is a broad term. In many data centers, management can be split into two broad categories:

Information technology
Mission critical facilities

Information technology is the management of everything in the racks: network, servers, storage, security appliances, operating systems and appliances.

Mission critical facilities is everything that surrounds the equipment in the racks: power feeds, generators, UPS systems, data center cooling , hardened data center buildings, physical security, and telecommunications access.

The driving force behind this management is normally data center reliability, or data center uptime. Most organizations are increasing their dependence on

In this info-rich post, Rich Miller (Data Center Knowledge) talks about there wheres and whys of proliferation of data centers in certain areas. His classification of data centers into three major categories is spot on.

The first building at Facebook’s data center campus in Oregon, built on a high plain above the small town of Prineville (Population: 10,000).

The changing shape of the Internet can be seen in a three-hour drive across the mountains and plains of western Oregon. The drive winds up and around Mount Hood, and across miles of wilderness

Why do hardened data center facilities matter? Hardened data centers reduce the risk of a prolonged outage due to natural and man-made disasters.

On the west coast, data centers are hardened by a number of different technologies to withstand the frequent shaking of earthquakes. In the Midwest, hardened data center facilities protect against natural disasters such as tornadoes. F5 tornado resistant data centers protect your mission critical facilities and equipment from natural disasters.

Although the risk of a natural disaster is low, the risk of a prolonged outage in a natural disaster

Does wholesale colocation simplify data center management? Does outsourcing the facilities side of your data center make it easier to manage the data center?

Consider the what it takes for 99.995% uptime enterprise data center facilities management:

F5 tornado resistant data center building- for Midwest colocation

Full data center power redundancy – multiple power feeds, generators, UPS systems and rack feeds

Data center cooling redundancy – multiple, concurrently maintainable cooling systems

Physical security – two factor authentication and multiple layers of loggable physical security

Fire suppression – Reliable, industry standard systems with regular testing and maintenance

Data

Is your in-house data center nickel and diming you to death?

Is your internal data center expensive to operate? Forget what’s in the racks. I’m not talking about servers, networking equipment and storage. I’m talking about facilities: your raised floor, your security, your power, your cooling, your telecommunications infrastructure and your fire suppression. How expensive is it to maintain?

Operating a data center in-house is expensive. Real estate floor space costs, raised flooring, reliable air conditioning systems, specialized security and fire protection all drive up the data center capital costs. Small data

Data center building, power, and cooling disciplines are not IT disciplines.

Your expertise on applications, software architecture, network, server and storage design is not expertise on building Rated-4 data centers with 99.995% uptime.

Likewise, experts on mission critical facilities like hardened data center buildings, data center power redundancy and cooling are rarely experts on mission critical systems and applications.

A best-of-breed CIO strategy would include expertise in both information technology systems design and highly available data center facilities. How is this done?

If your organization likes to “roll your own” enterprise data center, you

Do you need a hardened data center? If you are trying to protect your data center’s ability to withstand natural or man-made disasters and acts of terrorism, then the answer is yes. The term “hardened data center” described computer room facilities that are designed to withstand tornadoes, earthquakes, and man-made disasters.

Many data center strategies includes using hardened data centers to achieve 99.995% uptime. Hardened data centers, along with redundant data center power and cooling all play a part on maximing reliability and increasing data center uptime.

Not all hardened data centers