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Mainframe in the Cloud

Lifeline Data Centers offers corportions with the opportunity to migrate mission critical mainframe platforms to the cloud with their newest offering, Mainframe in the Cloud. Moving your mainframe to Lifeline’s FedRAMP/HITRUST Cloud is seamless, secure and provides an immediate ROI; saving nearly 70% annually. Lifeline’s solution protects the millions of dollars invested in your COBOL …

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Top Qualities of a Data Center Provider That Won’t Let You Down

Outsourcing data center needs is increasingly becoming an option for companies that are looking to quickly expand their data center capabilities without building out their own facilities. More than likely, you’ll have an extensive array of choices. But, of course, choosing the right one requires taking into consideration a wide number of factors — including …

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4 Steps to Minimizing the Pain of a Data Center Move

If it’s that time – time to move your data center, chances are you’re bracing yourself for the obvious headaches that can result from a major transition, including potential downtime that could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in productivity. To minimize the pain of a data center move, implement these 4 steps as part …

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Top Concerns for Data Centers in 2015 and Beyond

With a rapidly changing business climate that includes data, cloud and analytics, data centers are expected to undergo numerous changes in the next few years to adapt. However, it can be difficult to predict what those changes might be. Following are some of the biggest variables that could impact data centers in the immediate future. …

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Is Your Data Safe?

When trying to decide whether to move a data center offsite, some CIOs may wonder whether the safety of their corporate data can be guaranteed. If you decide to build and manage your own remote data center, physically protecting your facility from harm can significantly add to the expense of your building. But if you …

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Through the Eyes of a NOC Technician: Air Handler System

Data center cooling is one of the major challenges faced by data center managers because high temperatures and excess heat can severely effect its lifespan and performance. As organizations keep adding blade servers to equip their performance, data centers are demanding more electricity and producing high heat. Sometimes the heat exceedes 30kW – 50 kW/server …

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Introducing the Midwest Internet Exchange (M-IX)

Lifeline Data Centers is proud to introduce the Midwest Internet Exchange (M-IX), an Internet Exchange (IX) based in Indianapolis, IN with facilities in several data centers throughout the United States. One of the goals of the Midwest-IX is to bring Bilateral and Multilateral peering to an expansive network of data centers, along with keeping local Internet …

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Should You Scale Out or Scale Up?

Data centers today are facing the reality of a tremendous increase in data capacity requirements. While this new boost comes with the promise of better business benefits for data center owners, it does bring with it the challenge on how best to deliver the additional data needs to their customers. There are two options and …

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What to Do When You Need to Expand Your Current Data Center?

What can you do when you need to expand your current data center? Consider this real life scenario that took place recently. MIT launched edX, an online education portal and estimated that approximately 5,000 users would sign on. The actual number of users that signed up was an unbelievable 120,000! While there was tremendous excitement …

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Continuity Central – The risky business of technology moves and transitions

In an increasingly technology-dependent workplace, disruptions in technology services ripple through organizations. While the information technology team grapples with service level expectations that are nearing a standard of continuous availability, the real estate and facilities team is under ever-increasing pressure to optimize space, improve productivity and control costs. These two trends collide when offices, facilities …

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