Category Archive for : ‘Data Center Redundancy’

This is a common question I receive: How much power should I provision for my cabinets?

This can be a very complex question depending upon your goals for today and plans for the future. At the top end, you might provision enough power per cabinet to fully utilize your cooling capacity. For instance, if you can cool 500kW and have 100 cabinets, then you can provide 5kW to each cabinet. This is usually too simplistic because you may have certain high-density cabinets. But, the intent of this post isn’t to cover

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 clients, and your vendors are expecting a zero downtime data center. But your budget may not be big enough for that level of data center uptime. How do you balance uptime and affordability in your selection process?

If you’re shopping for an outsource data center, you may be asking providers about their

New year, new data center strategy: The coming of the new year offers a time for both reflection and for planning. Data center strategy is changing for many organizations. What changes do you envision for your data center in the coming years?

Your customers, staff and vendors expect your information technology applications to be available immediately and always. Expectations aside, if your company depends on your computer systems for your business processes, you need to assess your cost of downtime. In 2008, Amazon’s cost of downtime was $122,260 per hour. Downtime

Can you build enough data center redundancy?  Most businesses today have little or no tolerance for downtime.  The cost of downtime is lost revenues, lost credibility and lost clients.  And the first step to avoid data center downtime is to house your critical systems  in a computer room with multiple power feeds, generators, UPS systems and cooling.  These so-called mission critical facilities are engineered to provide power and connectivity to your critical computer systems with no interruption in power or cooling.

How does this work?  N+1 data center redundancy is when

Can you build enough data center redundancy?  Most businesses today have little or no tolerance for downtime.  The cost of downtime is lost revenues, lost credibility and lost clients.  And the first step to avoid data center downtime is to house your critical systems  in a computer room with multiple power feeds, generators, UPS systems and cooling.  These so-called mission critical facilities are engineered to provide power and connectivity to your critical computer systems with no interruption in power or cooling.

How does this work?  N+1 data center redundancy is when