Industry watchers say 2010 was a watershed year for the data center business, as new approaches to data center design and operations made the jump from concept to reality. “2010 was a banner year, and the pace of technical innovation…
Big users hope to influence the direction of technology and the marketplace. A new industry consortium made up of IT managers is building a set of blueprints on how best to build and operate data centers and cloud infrastructures, and…
Why are companies moving primary data centers to wholesale colocation facilities like Lifeline Data Centers? Many companies are consolidating data centers, and a wholesale colocation facility with great access to telecom can be an ideal place to consolidate. Many enterprise…
What would it mean if Apple wanted to take all the songs in all the iTunes libraries sitting on all the hard drives of its users and host them in the cloud? It would probably require Apple to build an…
Lightning storms, floods, car crashes and errant transfer switches were the culprits in his year’s most significant data center outages. There were plenty of high-profile outages for social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and free hosting services (more on this…
