CIOs are reducing risks by employing outsource data centers to solve their compliance problems. CIO strategy now includes leveraging outsource data centers and the certifications and compliance they maintain to help the enterprise meet government regulations. CIOs have used outsource…
Affordable colocation and 99.995% uptime are NOT mutually exclusive. Make sure you understand your outsource data center’s levels of redundancy and the uptime service level agreements in order to get the best combination of uptime and affordability. Your staff, your…
Is data center compliance killing your budget? Are the new demands for compliance putting an extra burden on your scarce IT resources? Data center compliance is becoming an issue even for small companies. In addition to federal and state requirements, companies…
Many companies that call us for information ask us what “tier” we are. The Uptime Institute has established a tiering system that helps companies classify and evaluate data centers and colocation facilities. The tiering system focuses on a number of…
Do you need a zero downtime data center? Can you afford it? Most experts will tell you that the cost difference between 4 1/2 9’s and 5 9’s (the difference between 99.995 % uptime and 99.999 % uptime) is often too…
