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Lifeline Data Centers Announces Phase II Colocation Construction at Former Shopping Mall

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 …

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Is Your Data Center Disaster-Proof?

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 – …

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Can affordable colocation deliver 99.995% data center uptime?

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 …

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Data center management – are you managing IT, facilities or both?

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: …

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Rich Miller: The New Data Center Geography

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 …

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Why hardened data center facilities matter

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 …

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Does wholesale colocation simplify data center management?

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, …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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Do you need a hardened data center?

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 …

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