What sort of data center redundancy do you have? This question is really two questions: Do you protect your critical data in multiple data center facilities? Do the data centers you use deliver a “two of everything” approach to HVAC…
The 2010 Haiti earthquake killed more than 210,000 people, and approximately 1 million people were evacuated from their homes. That disaster was followed about a month later by the 2010 Chilean earthquake, which scientists said shifted the earth’s axis, and…
A new Forrester Research Inc. report by Stephanie Balaouras examines the lack of progress made in data center disaster recovery since the September 11 attacks in 2001 and, more recently Hurricane Katrina in 2005. According the report’s summary drawn from…
Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and other large IT providers insist that data center customers want to deal with fewer, bigger vendors for more of their IT needs. But many IT pros say this “one throat to choke” mantra is self-serving at…
I just read this story about a colocation facility that was robbed for the fourth time in just two years, and I had to laugh at the absurdity of it. C I Host provides more than 250,000 consumers and small-…
