What does data center downtime cost your business? Do you lose credibility, revenue, profits, or clients when your systems are down? If your cost of downtime is low, don’t waste your time reading this post. It isn’t for you. If…
Insufficient management tools mean staff spend too much time managing servers The IDC survey of 300 large European businesses found that one in four organisations were managing their servers and storage manually, leading to much higher costs compared with organisations…
Many businesses, small and large, are using outsource computer room facilities to improve their data center uptime and reduce data center capital costs. But at what price? The traditional outsource data center facility is a minefield of vendor lock-in problems.…
In the Midwest, the biggest risk of natural disaster is tornado. Does your data center or Midwest colocation provider have F5 tornado resistant data center facilities? Hardened data center facilities are reinforced concrete structures with roofing engineered to withstand 135mph…
The stuff you can’t (or won’t) build into your data center could be the cause of a future outage. What stuff am I talking about? Data center power redundancy – dual utility power feeds, dual generators, and dual UPS systems…
